The term 'Holy Trinity', not known to the writers of the Bible, is still an elusive term to use nowadays, especially when one first reads the New Testament in light of the Old Testament and not ...immediately in light of the Creeds and Statements of Faith. This article discusses the roles of Θεός (God) and 'Father' in the New Testament with reference to the Holy Trinity. The conclusion is that the New Testament does not depict a Holy Trinity, but rather portrays Θεός as a coordinator, bringing a harmony between his anthropomorphic assignments 'Father', 'Son' and 'Holy Spirit', as well as all the followers of Θεός on Earth. Intradisciplinary and/or interdisciplinary implications On the first level, this article covers the disciplines of Old Testament, New Testament (NT) and Practical Theology. On the second level, it makes use of philosophy and logics to help determine the 'truths' in the Bible. Who is Θεός? We propose that the NT depicts him as coordinator of his three revelations, 'Father', 'Son' and 'Holy Spirit'. Using anthropomorphic terms, Θεός reveals himself to his followers on Earth. The Bible is used as the main source, with references to the three Creeds and four Statements of Faith.
Key words: glory, Spirit, groaning, intercession, afflictions, image, conformity, new creation, Romans (ProQuest: ... denotes non-USASCII text omitted.) Rich themes abound in Romans 8, a perennial ...favorite within the Pauline corpus: no condemnation in Christ; adoption as sons of God; glory through suffering; God's providential working of all things for the good of believers, just to name a few. In other words, we have failed to live in a way that reflects the nature and character of God (i.e. his glory) in our lives, the very purpose for which we, as image-bearers, were created.2 Just as sin is explained with reference to glory, Paul also presents redemption in Christ in relation to glory. Because believers have been justified by faith (5:1), they once more have "hope of the glory of God" (5:2). Believers once more have "hope of the glory of God" (5:2) and will be "conformed to the image of God's Son" (8:29), which is another way of saying that they will be "glorified" (cf. 8:30).4 Thus glory becomes an eschatolog- ical hope and expectation for believers, a realization of God's purpose for Adam and for Israel to see and to show forth the glory of God.5 God's glory shared with humanity is a significant aspect of Paul's gospel as he presents it in Romans, and the hope of eschatological glory is the central theme of Romans 5-8. In Rom 5:5, Paul says believers' hope-which in context refers to their "hope of the glory of God" (5:2)-does not put them to shame "because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who has been given to us."
The outpouring and infilling of the Holy Spirit was followed by carrying out God's missionary duties in Acts 2. This event was also adopted and became a tradition by some Christians in their ...religious life. The problem is that adoption only emphasizes how outpouring and fulfillment occurs. The purpose of this article is to discover the meaning of the outpouring and infilling of the Holy Spirit in the Love of Apostles in Acts 2: 1-13 and its implications for the church today. The Holy Spirit came upon the apostles and the others on the Day of Pentecost. Those who heard them speaking in tongues were perplexed and asked, “What does this mean?” (Acts 2:12). The question perseveres today. Pentecost teaches us that we should strive to have the same blessed experience as the disciples. God’s sanctions His church with the power of His Spirit so that He will be glorified among the nations. We need to remember that our purpose as the Lord’s church is not to focus on ourselves and our own happiness. Our purpose as Christians is to spread the knowledge of God to all the nations of the earth. If we lose our external focus, with the overall purpose of God’s glory, we may lose our reason for being. The result of this article is that the outpouring and fullness of the Holy Spirit is an important part in successfully carrying out God's mission. The method used in this brief study was a narrative theological analysis.
The Bible emphasizes the role of the Holy Spirit which is so important for Church believers because through it, Church believers can become new creations and offer ministry for their churches. The ...role of the Holy Spirit is included in terms of interpreting the Bible. This article discusses and answers the question of what is the role of the Holy Spirit in the realm of hermeneutics. First, the role of the Holy Spirit in the relationship with the inspiration of the Bible makes the Bible authoritative. Second, showing the role of the Holy Spirit that illuminates one when interpreting the Bible. Third, it shows that the Holy Spirit plays a pivotal role in guiding each interpreter to live in the work of sanctification. The goal of the role of the Holy Spirit in these three relationships is to make Church believers more like Christ before His second coming. The role of the Holy Spirit is one of the basic life needs for Church believers, especially in the hermeneutic context between biblical authority, illumination, and interpretation. The findings of this study indicated that the role of the Holy Spirit in these three areas or contexts of biblical authority, illumination, and interpretation is to make Church believers more Christ-like before His return.
This article explores the pneumatological theme of the freedom of the Spirit from the perspective of experience. It deploys a recently developed methodology of attending to affective and experiential ...dynamics in pneumatology to identify two significant patterns or modalities of Christian life in the Spirit that are indexed to the Spirit's freedom: a pattern of divine resistance to human attempts to control God, characterized on the human side by experiences of disruption as well as dynamic creativity; and a pattern of life free from the tyranny of the law, characterized by a modality of play or playfulness, as explored in the work of Nimi Wariboko. In identifying and illuminating these patterns, this article extends a project of seeking to make explicit the connections between Christian doctrinal concepts and Christian experience into a new domain, and responds to a long‐standing concern that theologies of sanctification emphasizing freedom have little to say about the positive shape of Christian life in the Spirit.
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