THE HOLY SPIRIT: Divine Person and Power

Question 1

Prophecy

Answer 1

Old and New Testament phenomena; belief and practice that the Holy Spirit speaks through the prophets

Question 2

Speaking in tongues

Answer 2

Holy Spirit speaking through men and women

Question 3

Basil the Great

Answer 3

On the Holy Spirit

Question 4

Filioque

Answer 4

addition of the word “and the Son” to the Nicene Creed; meaning that the Holy Spirit proceeds from the Father and the Son

Question 5

Cessationism

Answer 5

the doctrine that the supernatural works of the Holy Spirit ceased at the end of the apostolic age when the canon of Scripture was completed

Question 6

Renewalists

Answer 6

Pentacostals and charismatics believe that the neglect of the supernatural gifts of the Spirit resulted from the churches’ defection from authentic New Testament Christianity

Question 7

Binitarians

Answer 7

a Christian theology of two persons, personas, or aspects in one substance/Divinity (or God). Classically, binitarianism is understood as a form of monotheism—that is, that God is absolutely one being—and yet with binitarianism there is a “twoness” in God, which means one God family

Question 8

Paraclete

Answer 8

“another advocate” sent by Jesus after his ascension; sometimes referred to “Comforter” or “Counselor”, who is the “Spirit of truth” who will abide with them and be in among them (John 14:17)

Question 9

Montanism

Answer 9

Montanus was a self-appointed Christian prophet whose ministry spanned the middle decades of the second century; spoke many prophetic utterances; “peripatetic [traveling] prophets”

Question 10

Pneumatomachians

Answer 10

denied the deity and distinct personhood of the Holy Spirit, reducing the Spirit to a power of God

Question 11

Didache

Answer 11

• one of the most ancient Christian writings outside the New Testament, the Didache or “Teaching of the Twelve Apostles”

Question 12

Mormonism / LDS

Answer 12

a clear example of Montanism; teach that the theology of God’s revelation through Holy Spirit-inspired Scripture continues; the canon of Scripture is greater than the sixty-six books of the Bible; Bruce McConkie (Morman theologian)-“when the living oracles speak in the name of the Lord or as move upon by the Holy Spirit.. their utterances are then binding upon all who hear”; consider four texts Holy and binding and also leaves open the possibility of further scripture being written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit