The theology, or doctrine, of the Holy Spirit. For the majority of Christians, the Holy Spirit is a person of the Holy Trinity – Father, Son, and Holy Spirit – and is Almighty God.
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Can anyone provide any sources where earlier English Theologians distinguished between Holy Ghost and holy Spirit?
I have heard the claim (and especially here) that English theologians in the Middle Ages made a distinction between the Spirit of Christ as the indwelling Spirit or holy Spirit (holy as an adjective rather than part of the Divine Name/Title) and the…
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Where in Scripture is the Holy Spirit said to be speaking directly?
God the Son speaks in Luke 5:31-32:
Jesus said to them in reply, “Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do. I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners.”
God the Father speaks in Mark 1:10-11:
On coming…
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Can the Holy Spirit take control of a person completely?
At any point, can the Holy Spirit take control of a person completely so that the person may act beyond his control? I am trying to understand the Biblical view on this. My understanding is that the Holy Spirit is a submissive spirit, but, I have…
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Is Galatians 4:6 speaking of the Holy Spirit?
Galatians 4:6 says:
And because you are sons, God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts, crying, "Abba! Father!"
Is Paul referring to the Holy Spirit here? Given that the ESV capitalises the word 'Spirit', it seems likely to me, but I'm…
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Does the Holy Spirit indwell the Christian, and if so, how?
It is written that the Holy Spirit indwells the Christian, as the apostle Paul wrote (1 Cor. 3:16 cp. 1 Cor. 6:19),
Don't you know that you are the temple of God and the Spirit of God dwells in you?
I was browsing the internet, and to my…
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How were people baptized in the name of Jesus without the Holy Spirit in Acts 8?
My question regards this passage:
Acts 8:14-17 ESV Now when the apostles at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent to them Peter and John, who came down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Spirit, for…
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How does a Christian justify free thinking?
What types of Christianity promote free thinking or thinking for yourself?
The more I go to church, the more I feel guilty for free thinking and feel I should be passive to let the Holy Spirit guide me (but I find it is the will of other men that…
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Why is the Holy Spirit often referred as "Ghost"?
Why is the Holy Spirit often referred as the Holy "Ghost"? Does not the term ghost usually used in a negative connotation that relates to "scaring away"?
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"Spirit"of God the Father, Son and the Holy Spirit?
Biblically there's is a phrase for the Spirit of God the Father and the Spirit of Christ the Son. And the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son.
How about the "Spirit" of the Holy Spirit? Looking at it, it seems that, the thing called…
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Why does the Holy Spirit not take the form of a human being just like Jesus did?
The Holy Spirit in the Bible takes the form of:
Dove, Oil, Light, Wind and Tongues of Fire. But never a human being. Why?
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Why do people say the holy spirit is a spirit?
In John 16:7 Jesus states, "I will send him unto you," not "it." If the holy spirit was to be on earth in the state of a spirit, Jesus's statement would have been more like: "I will send it unto you."
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