The Holy Spirit

Person or power, deity and distinction from the Son.

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E01 · Objection and responseCan a person be poured out and received?What the imagery says about God's gift — and what it does not determine about the Spirit's nature.Read more ↗E02 · Objection and responseIs the Holy Spirit merely a personification?Why Scripture offers more here than a single poetic figure of speech.Read more ↗E03 · Objection and responseIs the Spirit an “it” because pneuma is neuter?Why grammatical gender and personhood answer different questions.Read more ↗E04 · Objection and responseIs the Holy Spirit really recognized as God?Acts 5, God's self-knowledge and the temple of the church.Read more ↗E05 · Objection and responseWhy is the Spirit explicitly named less often?Epistolary greetings and throne visions are not complete inventories of the divine essence.Read more ↗E06 · Objection and responseWhy does the Spirit intercede with God for us?Romans 8 describes personal intercession without three separate gods.Read more ↗E07 · Objection and response“The Lord is the Spirit”—are Son and Spirit the same person?Why 2 Corinthians 3 and 1 Corinthians 15 do not teach a dissolution of the persons.Read more ↗

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