Reflection Of The Holy Spirit

In Paul, the Spirit, and the People of God, Gordon Fee outlines a theology of the Spirit in the Divine Trinity, the basis within Scripture for the experience of the Spirit, and the interaction of the two. Fee, a Pentecostal scholar, “redefines the terms of discussion about the Holy Spirit in a way that transcends today’s

The first four chapters of Genesis indicate that God is the eternal Creator the universe; that God communicates with His creation and evaluates his own work, and that God is sovereign, exercising “supreme authority and absolute power over all things” (Lecture 2, para. 5). There is but one true God, who exists as a Triune Being and is three Persons in one essence; a Divine essence which exists wholly, invisibly, simultaneously and eternally, within three members of the one Godhead—God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit (Lecture 2, para. 7). Harmoniously linked, “each divine figure of the Trinity exercises dominion over creation and is involved in the biblical narrative in its own unique, yet cooperative, way” (Johnson, p. 178). The unity of the Trinity not only illustrates the full divinity of God, the immeasurable power, benevolence, wisdom and omnipresence distinctly setting Him apart from His creation, but also shows that He is the source of all that is good, true, beautiful, loving, just, and

John also reveals Christ’s identity, “In the beginning the Word (logos) already existed. He was with God, and he was God…He created everything there is. Nothing exists that he didn’t make. Life itself was in him and this life gives light to everyone.” (John 1:1, 3-4)

God the Son is revealed in the Christian Scriptures. God the Spirit is revealed in the Church. The Trinitarian doctrine states that there are three co-eternal, equal persons in God, which is the notion of unity within community. The Trinitarian doctrine was further developed and defined at the councils of Nicaea in 325 CE and Constantinople in 381 CE. God was always trinity, however gradually this reality became known through revelation. Jesus calls God and speaks of the spirit which indicates a plurality in God. The difficulty is reconciling the concept of monotheism with the notion of God existing as three persons. The divine essence is common to all three, however the three persons have attributes or properties which distinguished them eg Fatherhood, sonship and sanctifying power. Once essence means that the actions (creation, redemption, sanctification) are attributable to all. Mutual relations is the concept that the terms Father and Son are not titles but expressions of a relationship and thus all three persons are co-equal

whoever had this spirit in them were sinful, and whoever were accused it affected their lives

The Holy Spirit of God is the active force or power in one’s life, which most certainly includes spiritual formation (Pettit, 2008, p. 46). When Jesus was speaking with his disciples he made it clear – by using the analogy of a vine and branches – that apart from him they could do nothing (John 15:5). Only if one is connected to Christ will they have the ability to bear fruit and the way Jesus empowers those connected to him is through the Holy Spirt that that father will send in his name (John 14:26). The fact is that the triune God dwells in the Christian in and through the Holy Spirit. One sees this when they place multiple passages together to gain a full understanding of this concept. For example, Jesus made it clear that he and the father would come and make their home with the disciple (John 14:23). In 1 Corinthians 6:19 Paul reminds the Corinthians that their bodies are the very temple of God because the Holy Spirit dwells in them which is similar to what Jesus said would happen when he sent the Holy Spirit after his resurrection and ascension (John 14:17, 16:7).

The Trinity consists of God, the Father, Jesus, the Son of God and the Holy Spirit. The Christian faith recognizes there is one God and He is one with His Son, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. The purpose of this essay is to describe the interrelationship of the three persons of the Trinity. This will include the concepts of the economic trinity, the essential trinity and the social trinity.

Logos is synonymous with Memra or Word. It is a term that applies to God as He reveals Himself to man. The Logos as described by Philo is not the same Memra found

The meaning of the Greek term of logos is divine wisdom and the proposition of the comic reason, which something that orders or governs that of the universe. When John uses the term logos, which is he referring to Jesus pre-birth existence, he also references it to Genesis 1 (Harris, 2014). John ties it together by starting his opening hymn with saying that the beginning began with the Word, which the Word is with God, and that Word is God. John 1:2 is the verse that correlates with Genesis 1, which also refers to the verse in John 1:1, which states that the Word is the same as in the Beginning with God and God spoke the world into existence, thus the Word (Bible Gateway, 2018). In John, he is also recalling God’s words from when creation

The central, and largest portion of the Creed is dedicated toward revealing that God the Son became man, lived a fully human life, suffered during a historical time, died, and rose from the dead for the salvation of the world. The creed flows from the Apostolic encounter and witness of God the Son in the flesh revealing Himself as Lord to them. The Apostles in turn facilitate that encounter with the living God for others to establish the communion of believers and the people of God who enter into the Body of Christ through baptism. The baptized in term confess their faith in and love for their one Lord, the God of Israel, Jesus Christ. Through this encounter with the God that saves them, they enter into the paschal mystery, which is the kernel or core of the creed. Through this central element the Gospel is summarized and conveyed. From the Son becoming man, and living ever for His passion, death, resurrection, ascension, and sending of the Spirit we can see that the life of Christ is also centered on the paschal mystery. The paschal mystery in turn reveals the love of the Father, serves as the path for all to become sons in the Son, through the Sacraments of the Church, by the power of the Spirit. Thus we can see that the Trinity is Christocentric, Christ is paschocentric, and the Paschal Mystery is itself Trinitarian. These truths enlighten and explain the creeds Christocentric and Trinitarian structure and

The Logos doctrine, through Justin’s formation, used certain key phrases such as: “Son of God” and “Christ,” which was used to differentiate a mediatorial figure that Justin insisted was “another God.” Looking back one can see this as the spark that lighted trinitarianism, however in the early church’s mindset, they saw this as Justin introducing a second God. Logos will still be expounded upon, however a movement against this new doctrine was formed and was entitled monarchianism. Coming from monarchia, which means roughly “uniqueness of the first principle.” This doctrine was strictly monotheistic.

To start our research, we need to ask a critical question at the very beginning : Who is the Holy Spirit? The Bible teaches that the Holy Spirit is a person. Jesus never referred to “it” when He was talking about the Holy Spirit. In John 14,15 and 16, for example, He spoke of the Holy Spirit as “He” because He is not a force or thing but a person. The point is especially important at a time when pantheistic tendencies are

The Holy Spirit of God is the driving divine force that assisted God with the creation of the things on the earth. Gen. 1:1-2, (KJV), records the first account of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament. In the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth and the earth was without form and void; and darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the face of the waters. In addition, Ps. 33:6 records that the Word of the Lord made the heavens and all the host of them by the breath of His mouth. After God created the earth as a habitation, He created man in His own image and likeness.

Throughout the ages, scholars and different denominations tried to explain the Trinity, the three distinct Persons of God. But yet through the limited understanding of human knowledge and perceptions of God, they were not able to comprehend indefiniteness of God. One of the issues that Christians wanted to understand is the Triune God; in order to understand Trinity, it is helpful for us to know the existence of God. Then ask questions like; How the three Gods united and become One God? How should we understand Trinity? What are the positions and differences of Seventh-day Adventist belief from Evangelical? The scope and limitation of this paper are to answer the questions above and my own understanding of God as I study the scriptures.

According to the text, creation and humanity are the work of a triune God. Creation includes the entire activity of God. In creation all three persons are at work simultaneously, including the Holy Spirit (Gen 1:2) and the Word (John 1:1) (Chapter 5).