{"id":12368,"date":"2021-09-13T13:07:00","date_gmt":"2021-09-13T13:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pjhmail.wordpress.com\/?p=12368"},"modified":"2021-09-13T13:07:00","modified_gmt":"2021-09-13T13:07:00","slug":"why-not-capitalize-holy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/12368\/why-not-capitalize-holy\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Not Capitalize “holy”?\ufffc"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read your article* about evidence, ie, speaking in tongues, to receive salvation.\u00a0 I’m very curious to know why you didn’t capitalize Holy.\u00a0 you say “holy Spirit”.\u00a0 that is not biblical.\u00a0 all thru King James translation & others Holy is capitalized.\u00a0 start w John 14:26.\u00a0 Jesus spoke those words “the Comforter which is the Holy Ghost”??<\/span><\/p>\n

Michael<\/span><\/p>\n

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Hello\u00a0Michael.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you for your good\u00a0question.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

In the original\u00a0documents of the New Testament, there were no small Greek letters\u00a0at all.\u00a0 Every letter was capital.\u00a0 Small Greek letters were introduced in the 8th and 9th centuries, and from that point on, it was the writer’s choice, to use or not to use capital letters with some words.\u00a0 In the Greek New Testament that\u00a0has come down to us, names of people and places are capital, along with the beginning of sentences, but not much else.\u00a0 Even the words, “God”, “Son of God”, and “Spirit” are not capitalized in the Greek text.\u00a0 Most modern writers, including myself, capitalize those words out of respect for God and His Son, as well as for God’s Spirit.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

We do not capitalize such adjectives as “holy” because there is no need\u00a0to do so.\u00a0 Simply capitalizing\u00a0“Spirit” lets the Reader know that God’s Spirit is being talked about.\u00a0 We don’t capitalize\u00a0the word “holy” when speaking of our “holy God”\u00a0or the “holy Son of God”, and there is no good reason to capitalize “holy” when speaking of the “holy Spirit”.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

I hope that clears up that matter for you.\u00a0 It is a small matter, though, compared to\u00a0the message in my article, that the baptism\u00a0of\u00a0the\u00a0holy Spirit,\u00a0with the evidence of speaking in tongues, is the new birth.\u00a0 Did you have any thoughts\u00a0about that?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Thank you again for writing.\u00a0 I look forward\u00a0to hearing from you again sometime.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Pastor John<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

* Ye Must Be Born Again – Going to Jesus.com<\/a> ;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The New Birth – Going to Jesus.com<\/a> ;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Going to Jesus.com – Speaking in Tongues at Spirit Baptism<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read your article* about evidence, ie, speaking in tongues, to receive salvation.\u00a0 I’m very curious to know why you didn’t capitalize Holy.\u00a0 you say “holy Spirit”.\u00a0 that is not biblical.\u00a0 all thru King James translation & others Holy is capitalized.\u00a0 start w John 14:26.\u00a0 Jesus spoke those words “the Comforter which is the Holy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-qa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12368"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12368\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pastorjohnshouse.com\/mailbag\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}