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

Our objective for this segment, The Life-Giver, is to enable you to:

• Understand why the theological study of the Holy Spirit is called Pneumatology .

• Summarize the Old Testament view of the Spirit of God.

• 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.

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

I. The Life-Giver

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We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord and Life-giver , who proceeds from the Father and the Son, who along with the Father and Son is worshiped and glorified, who spoke by the prophets.

II. The Powerful Breath of God

A. The study of the doctrine of the Holy Spirit is known as pneumatology.

1. Pneuma is the Greek word for “wind or breath or spirit.”

2. The Hebrew word ruach (which is used in the Old Testament Scriptures) carries the same basic meaning of “wind or breath or spirit.”