Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 61
The Role of the Holy Ghost 61 which is very difficult to believe and conceive for human beings, many of whom have lived long with Christian dogma without questioning it, and have somehow shut their eyes to such glaring violations against the human intellect, which was supposedly created by God himself. The Holy Ghost and Creation We do not observe any role played by the Holy Ghost or Jesus Christ as in the divine plan of creation: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth (Genesis 1:1). Obviously it is ‘God the Father’ who is referred to in the Old Testament without any hint of a reference to Christ as or the Holy Ghost In the entire pre-Christian era, among all the Jews who believed in the Old Testament and must have heard this verse hundreds of thousands of times, there was not one who could read the name of Christ as or that of the Holy Ghost in the story of the creation of the Universe. In his Gospel, St John suggests ‘Word’ to stand for Jesus as (John 1:1) *. It is strange that such an important subject has been taken up by the author of only one Gospel; by someone who was not even a disciple of Jesus as. Even if one accepts his word to be the word of God, still it can only be understood to mean the Will of God; this is a concept that is common to many religions with reference to Creation. * In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. (John 1:1)