God the Holy Spirit, Mentor's Guide, MG14

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G O D T H E H O L Y S P I R I T

The Person of the Holy Spirit

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Welcome in the strong name of Jesus Christ! After your reading, study, discussion, and application of the materials in this lesson, you will be able to:

Lesson Objectives

• Describe the essential Christian understanding of God as Trinity.

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• Use the Scriptures to defend the truth that the Holy Spirit is fully God.

• Use the Scriptures to defend the truth that the Holy Spirit is a Divine Person. • Explain the filioque and briefly describe the theological disagreements which have resulted from it. • Understand and defend the theological reasons for believing that the Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son. • Explain Augustine’s definition of the Holy Spirit as the “bond of love” between the Father and the Son. • Explain why the Holy Spirit must be worshiped and glorified along with the Father and the Son. • Understand why the theological study of the Holy Spirit is called Pneumatology . • Use the Scriptures to describe the life-giving role of the Spirit in creating and sustaining the world. • Identify the major symbols associated with the Holy Spirit in the Scriptures and show how they contribute to our understanding of him as the Life-giver. • Explain how the names and titles of the Holy Spirit in the Scriptures contribute to our understanding of him as the Life-giver. • Summarize the Old Testament view of the Spirit of God.

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• Explain why the ministry of the Spirit is a source of hope.