 It was because they came to him through a personal experience with Jesus Christ. And friends, that's what you have to do if you're going to be saved. Yes, the old faith of our fathers includes the belief in the Holy Spirit, the third person of the Godhead. The Holy Spirit is God working in the human heart. Someone has said that God could not be everywhere, therefore he made mothers. They are wrong. God is everywhere in the person of the Holy Spirit.