I'm not the one who is a pro in a Bible exegesis, and neither is anybody on this forum.
Actually, I am. I have been trained in biblical exegesis. I have an M. Div. from an acredited seminary. And I make my living as a pastor where one of my prime responsibilities to provide proper biblical exegesis to the people in my congregation.
We ppl feel many things, true, but no offense, you've got no proof that the comfort you feel is coming from the "Holy Ghost"...
MadeenJibreel, I feel for you. The question you are asking does not even have any bearing upon the issue before us in the text.
I'm guessing that either (a) English is not your first language, (b) you are not a particularly educated in linguistics nor understand grammar very well (though you probably do speak more than one language, which is good), (c) you are very young and easily excited about things have a great deal of passion. None of this is to speak poorly of you. It is not to say that you are a bad person, or lacking in any personal character trait, in fact some of them such, as passion, are quite commendable. But I think it is hard for you to slow down enough to take a look at the actual evidence, the facts and the text to truly understand what others are saying, or to even see what it actually does say for yourself.
The tern, "the Comforter" is a translation of a Greek word, "
paracletos". So other translations, also appropriate because as you must be familiar with rarely are there word-for-word translations between any two languages, one could render this same word as "Counselor", "Helper", "Advocate". All of those ideas are tied up in the word "
paracletos". But the key to understand who/what this word "
paracletos" refers to is that Jesus goes on in several specific places to say, "the
paracletos, the Holy Spirit". That is just as if one were to say, "the Prophet, Muhammaed (pbuh)". The use of the comma in the phrase is a tool in English grammar to tell us who the Prophet is that the speaker is referring to. It is to a very specific prophet. Without the identification one might think of some other prophet. For instance, if speaking to a Mormon, they might just automatically think you were talking about Joseph Smith, who is their prophet. And likewise, if Jesus had not go one to identify who this Comforter was, we could possibily be confused thinking of many other individuals who comfort us. I might think of my Mom. You might think of Muhammad, and someone else might think of their boyfriend or girlfriend. So, to keep that from happening Jesus uses a particular grammatical construction by which he tells us who it is that he has identified as the "
paracletos", and when we apply that to these passages Jesus tells us that the "
paracletos" is no other than the Holy Spirit. It is NOT Muhammad, and those who think that they can find that in this passage are, in my opinion, grasping at straws.
The Sprit of Truth, spoken about in this prophecy referes to none other than Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
No. It doesn't. Please, let the text speak for itself. If you do, I think you will see that it does not even anticipate Muhammad, let alone imply that the Spirit of Truth is him. Here is just one of the things that Jesus tells his disciples about this "Spirit of Truth" he says that "he lives with you and will be in you" (John 14:17). Now I have never heard it asserted that the Prophet Muhammad (pbuh) lived with and was in any of Jesus disciples. Yet the Spirit of Truth does. Hence the Prophet Muhammad, on that alone, is excluded from being the one Jesus is speaking of when he refers to the "Spirit of Truth".
