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filled with the Holy Ghost. They were thus inspired by
the third divine person to sell their field and to place
its price in cash at the feet of the Apostle Peter, but at
the same time were seduced by the devil to conceal a
portion of the money. The consequence was that the
unfortunate communist couple were stricken dead
miraculously(Acts v.).

Think of the belief that the Third Person of the Trinity
descends upon men, sanctifies them, then allows them to
fall into error, heresy, and atheism, and abandons them to
commit murderous wars and massacres. Is this possible?
Can the devil seduce a man filled with and guarded by the
Holy Ghost and change him into a demon?

The Holy Quran is very expressive on this point. Allah
says to the devil:

“Verily thou shalt have no power over my servants,
but over those only who shall be seduced and who shall
follow thee”(chap. xv.) [1] .

We cannot believe, nor even imagine for a moment,
that a servant of God, a righteous believer who has
received the Spirit of sanctification, can fall into a deadly
sin and perish in hell. Nay, a holy person, so long as he is
in this material world, is to combat and struggle against
sin and evil; he may fall, but he will rise again and shall
never be abandoned by the pure Spirit that guards him.
True repentance is the work of the good Spirit that lives in
us. If a Christian be baptized with the Holy Spirit and fire,
in the sense which the book of the “Acts of the Apostles”
describes and the Churches accept, then every baptized
Latin, Greek, or Abyssinian must not only become a
sinless saint but also a linguist and a polyglot prophet!

The truth is that the Christians have not a definite
or precise conception about the Holy Spirit filling a

[1] Quran,15: 42. «For over My servants no authority shalt thou have, except such
as put themselves in the wrong and follow thee.» (Editors ‹).