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217means the Word of God, and not God the Word. The word is an attribute of a rational being; it belongs to any speaker, but it is not the rational being, the speaker. The Divine Word is not eternal, it has an origin, a beginning; it did not exist before the beginning except potentially. The word is not the essence. It is a serious error to substantialize any attribute whatever. If it be permitted to say “God the Word,” why should it be prohibited to say, God the Mercy, God the Love, God the Vengeance, God the Life, God the Power, and so forth? I can well understand and accept the appellation of Jesus (pbuh) “the Divine Spirit” (“Rūhu ’lLāh”), of Moses (pbuh) “the Divine Word” (“Kalamu ’lLāh”), of Muhammad (pbuh) “the Divine Apostle” (“Rasūl Allah”), meaning the Spirit of God,the Word of God, the Apostle of God respectively.However, I can never understand nor accept that the Spirit, or the Word, or the Apostle, is a Divine Person having divine and human natures.Now we will proceed to expose and confute the Christian error about the Paraclete. In this article I shall try to prove that the Paraclete is not, as the Christian Churches believe, the Holy Ghost, nor does it at all mean the “comforter” or the “intercessor;” and in the following article, please God, I shall clearly show that it is not “Paraclete” but “Periclyte” which precisely signifies “Ahmad” in the sense of “the most Illustrious, Praised, and Celebrated.”1. The Holy Spirit is described in the NewTestament not as a PersonalityA careful examination of the following passages in the New Testament will convince the readers that the Holy Spirit, not only is it not the third person of the Trinity, but is not even a distinct person. Nevertheless, the “Paraclete” foretold by Jesus Christ (pbuh) is a distinct person. This fundamental difference between the two is,