Prologos, I understand the need to reference the Bible to speak to ‘insiders’ but to quote things found there often implies they exist if the wording is not clear. Holy Spirit is qualitatively no truer than Tinkerbelle is in Barry’s famous play. It’s just that HS is sprinkled with holy stardust and takes on a life in the imagination of religious people.
My point is that so much harm comes from living a life dependant on these total fictions... people wasting their precious lives.
If one knew the Bible well enough, and most of us did, then we might recall in the Book of Samuel that Ahitophel the royal adviser betrayed King David for thirty pieces of silver and hung himself. David here seen as the archetype saviour- king, not prophetic of Jesus but a stock mythical character from paganism of which Jesus became the name pinned to the second century Christian copy of this story. The fact that the Judas tale is second hand and literary (not factual) in style; disqualifies venerable talk of “decisions of holy spirit”. This demonstrates the nature of the Bible’s contents; not only self referencing stories but a vast borrowing from paganism which religious people are disinclined to consider or investigate since they prefer to believe in magic before reality.