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QUESTION
LIST - Page 5 THE HOLY SPIRIT (more)
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THE HOLY SPIRIT
DISTINGUISHED FROM THE FATHER AND THE SON |
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The Bible draws a
clear distinction between the Holy Spirit and the Father and
the Son. |
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They are separate personalities. |
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They have mutual relations to one another. |
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They act upon one another. |
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They speak of each other. |
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They speak to one another. |
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They apply second- and third-person
pronouns to one another. |
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The doctrine of the
Trinity is not expressly taught in the Bible. It is implied
by various
passages about the Father, the Son, and the Holy
Spirit. |
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A clear distinction
is drawn between Jesus Christ, who was on the earth, the Father
who
spoke to Him from heaven, and the Holy Spirit who descended
in a bodily form as a Dove, upon Him. |
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A clear distinction
is drawn between "the name of the Father" and "of
the Son" and "of the Holy Spirit." |
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A clear distinction
is drawn between the Son who prays and the Father to whom He
prays, and
the "Another Counselor" who is given in
answer to the prayer. |
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A clear distinction
is drawn between Jesus Christ, who goes away and the Holy Spirit,
who comes to take His place. |
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A clear distinction is drawn between
the Son exalted to the right hand of the Father, and the Father
Himself, and the Holy Spirit, whom the Son receives from the
Father and sheds upon the church. |
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THE WORK OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT IN PROPHETS AND APOSTLES |
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The work of the Holy
Spirit in Apostles and Prophets differs from His work in other
believers. He imparts to Apostles and Prophets a special
gift for a special purpose. |
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Truth hidden from
men for ages, and which they had not discovered, and could not
discover by the unaided processes of human reasoning, has been
revealed to Apostles
and to Prophets in the Spirit. |
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The Revelation made
to the Prophets was independent of their own thinking; it was
made to them by the Spirit of Christ which was in them -- and
was a subject of inquiry
to their own mind as to its meaning.
It was not their thought, but His. |
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No prophetic utterance
was of the Prophets' own will, but they spoke from God, and
the Prophet was carried along in it by the Holy Spirit. |
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It was the Holy Spirit
who spoke in prophetic utterance; it was His word that was
upon
the Prophets' tongue. |
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The Holy Spirit in
the Apostle taught not only the thought (or "concept")
but the
words in which the thought was to be expressed. |
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The utterances of
the Apostles and the Prophets were the Word of God. When we
read these words we are not listening to the voice of man, but
to the voice of God. |
(c) 1998-2011 by Rick Reinckens
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