Pope Shenouda III
Christ Is God
(a) Who can pour out the Spirit of God, send the Spirit of God and breath the Spirit of God on people, except God Himself? And if the Lord Jesus Christ did these, is He not God, then?
(b) God says in the Book of Joel: "I will pour out My Spirit on all flesh." And St. Peter the Apostle uses this verse as a testimony on the Day of Pentecost at the descent of the Holy Spirit, saying: "'And it shall come to pass in the last days, says God, that I will pour out of My Spirit on all flesh"' (Acts 2:16,17), Moreover he says in the same chapter that the Lord Jesus, "being exalted to the right hand of God, and having received from the Father the promise of the Holy Spirit, He poured out this which you now see and hear" (Acts 2:33). Then who is the Lord Jesus Christ who pours out the Spirit of God on people, but God Himself?
(c) We cannot imagine, nor can Jehovah's Witnesses, that there is a power other than God who can send the Spirit of God or pour out the Spirit of God.
