First thing I needed to understand and still muddling through is does the holy spirit call others to Christ?
Yes. The Father sends the Son to us, and the Son is willfully obedient. The Son sends the Spirit to us, and the Spirit is willfully obedient. And in the reverse, the Spirit sends us to the Son, and we must be willfully obedient. And the Son sends us to the Father, and we must be willfully obedient.
Next, is the Holy Spirit’s interaction contingent on the salvation of an individual?
I suppose this is dependent on what he means. If he means, “whether he Holy Spirit interacts is contingent on a person’s salvation,” then the answer is no. If he means, “how the Holy Spirit interacts is contingent on a person’s salvation,” then the answer is yes.
The Baptist perspective is that when one accepts Christ as their personal Lord and Saviour, they are saved. Catholics don’t strictly believe this, but let’s assume it’s true. Prior to being saved the Holy Spirit points you in the direction of Christ. After being saved, He bestows gifts, or charisms, for the Glory of God and the spreading of the Gospel for the salvation of men.
Of course, that’s in the Baptist model. Catholics believe that both of these interactions take place throughout a person’s life of Faith. That is, even after Baptism (which is the acceptance of Christ as Lord and Saviour), the Holy Spirit continues to point us in the direction of Christ when we often wander from His path. Likewise, as we come into and fall out of grace, the Spirit indwells and leaves us respectively, often many times throughout our lives.
Ultimately, though, in death our Salvation is fixed. At this point, the kind of interaction becomes strictly indwelling and charismatic graces, as we no longer need to be pointed toward, or back toward Christ.
Third does the Holy Spirit increase, decrease or stay the same as the progession away from the day’s of Christ and his immediate dicisiples grows older and older?
I take it he means “does the activity of the Holy Spirit increase, decrease… etc.”? If so, then no, the Holy Spirit’s activity does not decrease/increase with historical nearness to Christ. The activity changes, yes. For example, during the time Before Christ, mankind we out of grace with God, and as such the Holy Spirit did not live in men, as He came to do after Christ. However, He has always pointed men to Christ, both before He arrived on earth, and after. Moreover, the life of the Holy Spirit within us is a direct response to how deeply committed and Faithful we are to the life and mission of Christ. If the Spirit seemed more active in men immediately after Christ, it may simply be that they were more saintly than we are these days.
Fourth and perhaps overlapping third does God’s perspective of timeexist linearly or in a large glob of all seeing all timelines at all glimpses? Turning to Acts 2 and John 14 now pray for understanding."
God is eternal. This means that He is not temporal. As such, His experience of moments is not as a progressive sequence, which is time, but rather all moments are present to Him at once, simultaneously. This doesn’t mean that all time is a “large glob,” which might suggest incoherence or disorder. Rather, though God doesn’t experience linear time as we do, He still sees all of time in its linear logic. That is to say, though all moments are present to Him at once, He sees and understands and knows how each moment connects cause-and-effectively to the next, and where each of us are at, spiritually speaking, in each moment.
