I don't know if this has been discussed before but I'm still going to post this. I flew to Philly from Miami to visit my parents on Tuesday. I'm staying in Philly for a week. Anyways, my parents had some JW brothers and sisters coming over for Watchtower Study. I really don't remember what the WT study is about. At one point, I decided to join the study just to see what they are talking about. One of the brothers brought up something about the Holy Spirit. He was saying that all churches got it wrong. Holy Spirit isn't a person at all and stuff like that.....blah blah blah. I interrputed him and told him that I got a question. I showed him John 16:7-8:
7 Nevertheless, I am telling YOU the truth, It is for YOUR benefit I am going away. For if I do not go away, the helper will by no means come to YOU ; but if I do go my way, I will send him to YOU . 8 And when that one arrives he will give the world convincing evidence concerning sin and concerning righteousness and concerning judgment:
I asked him who the "helper" is. He said it was the Holy Spirit. Then I asked him why did the Bible refer to him as "him" or "he" if he isn't a person? Shouldn't you be calling objects "it" instead of "he" or "she"? I showed him and other JWs some more scriptures about the Holy Spirit and they just sat there in silence. My dad said "Well sometimes the Bible is hard to understand. We are waiting for Jehovah to clear this up for us." It was a very awkard night for all of them because they didn't really have any answer to this. My dad didn't look too happy after they left.
I really don't know if I did handle this situation correctly by making my dad pissed off but I did what I had to do.