The Holy Spirit: God's Service Pack Update for humanity
This post is going to be a discussion about the Bible, and since I'm a shameless nerd, I'm going to engage in a little coding/software speak just to give those not explicitly familiar with the Bible and Christianity a handy mental image of my point. Christianity believes in a triune entity known as the Father (God), the Son (Jesus), and the Holy Spirit. Standard doctrine is that all three are separate in terms of being their own thing, but are all connected as the same substance and interlinked. With this in mind, some background. In the Old Testament, God said you had to be aware of sin, and when you became aware you sinned, then it counted against you, and it was entirely on you to do the prescribed sacrifice to atone. The New Testament changed this after Jesus died on the cross. When Jesus became the perfect sacrifice for all sin past, present, and future by his death, you still have to acknowledge regret for your sin, but Jesus basically did the sacrifice part for you. Bef...