God the Holy Spirit, Student Workbook, SW14

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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

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.

• 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.