Ephesians 1:13-14 reveals that the Holy Spirit serves as the instrument of our regeneration as children of God, acting as a pledge or down payment on the life to come. Romans 8:9 emphasizes that without this spirit, which is the spirit and mind of Christ, displacing our carnal minds, we are not in the process of conversion and thus are not candidates for the God Family. Furthermore, the Holy Spirit is presented in Scripture as a power or essence rather than a personality, as seen in the original Greek where no article accompanies the term "pneuma hagion," indicating it is not an entity.