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Question 53: What do you believe about the "Holy Spirit"?

  Question 53: What do you believe about the "Holy Spirit"? Answer: First, the Holy Spirit, together with the Father and the Son, is eternal God. Second, the Holy Spirit has come to me personally to unite me with Christ through true faith, to share in all His blessings, to comfort me, and to be with me forever. In the Old Testament, the Holy Spirit is referred to as the Spirit of Jehovah, and in the New Testament, as the Spirit of Christ or the Spirit of Jesus. The Holy Spirit is a being in God's image, a light of life that comes from God, but cannot be said to be God in and of itself. Acts 16:6-7 "Now when they had passed through the Phrygian and Galatian region, having been forbidden by the Holy Spirit to preach the word in Asia, when they had come to Mysia, they tried to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit did not permit them." Ton Logon ( τ ὸ ν λ ό γον ) means Christ, the Word. Paul, who was with Timothy, tried to preach the gospel in Asia, but the Hol...

Question 52: What comfort does the second coming of Christ "to judge the living and the dead" bring you?

  Question 52: What comfort does the second coming of Christ "to judge the living and the dead" bring you? Answer: Even in the midst of persecution and suffering, I look up to heaven and confidently await the Lord of Judgment, who will stand before God's judgment seat in my place and thus remove all curse from me. Christ will inflict eternal punishment on all his enemies, but he will lead all the saints, including me, into the joy and glory of heaven. Jesus does not judge the spiritually living, but the spiritually dead. Therefore, those born again of water and the Spirit are already seated in heaven and are therefore not subject to judgment. A temple is established within the hearts of those born again of the Spirit, and Jesus returns and dwells in that temple. Therefore, the one within the temple becomes the Lord and Savior. However, Jesus will return to the world in the last days to judge those who do not believe in Jesus or who, among his followers, do not belie...

Question 51: What benefit does this glory of Christ, our Head, give us?

  Question 51: What benefit does this glory of Christ, our Head, give us? Answer: First, Christ, through the Holy Spirit, bestows heavenly gifts upon us, his members. Second, by his great power, Christ defends and protects us from all our enemies. A saint becomes one who is in Christ. Therefore, he believes that the saint does the same things Christ did. This is to clearly convey what it means that salvation comes from Christ and is in Christ. Being in Christ means that the saint died with Jesus, was born of the Holy Spirit, and received the resurrection life, being seated in heaven. Becoming a heavenly being means becoming a citizen of heaven. The Holy Spirit seals this seal. God declares that He will not punish sin through the law, and through the guidance of the Holy Spirit, He enables us to understand His will. The greatest enemy of a believer is the fleshly self within them. Therefore, God grants them the strength to fight spiritually and win.    

Baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

  Baptize them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.   Matthew 28:19 "Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit." Although it is expressed as baptizing in the name of the three, this word has the meaning of the father baptizing, the son baptizing, and the Holy Spirit baptizing, respectively. First, baptism is performed in the name of the Father. The Father's name is Jehovah, and Jehovah is the Savior (Jesus). The Father symbolizes the Word. The Father gives the words of the covenant. The covenant is the promise of land and seed. Second, the Son is Christ. The Son's name is also Jesus. Jesus Christ is symbolized by a stone. A rough stone becomes a smooth stone. The rough stone is cut, symbolizing death on the cross, while the smooth stone signifies the resurrected Jesus Christ. The two stone tablets of the covenant symbolize Jesus Christ, his death ...

Question 50: Why does the next verse say, “He sat down at the right hand of God”?

  Question 50: Why does the next verse say, “ He sat down at the right hand of God ” ? Answer: Christ ascended into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God, where he is shown to be the head of the church and through whom the Father rules over all things. The reason Jesus Christ became the Son of God, not God, was to save repentant sinners. Therefore, Jesus died on the cross and was resurrected, and those who believe in his death on the cross and resurrection, united with him, also sit at the right hand of God in Christ. "At the right hand of God" means "son of God." Hebrews 10:12-13, "But this man, after he had offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, sat down at the right hand of God, from then on waiting until his enemies should be made his footstool." Jesus, as the Son of God, is seeking those to save until he judges the world as the Judge. Likewise, the saints are at the right hand of God in Christ. Sitting at the right hand of God also ...

Question 49: What benefit does Christ's ascension into heaven bring us?

  Question 49: What benefit does Christ's ascension into heaven bring us? Answer: First, Christ intercedes for us before the Father in heaven. Second, our bodies are in heaven in Christ, and this is a sure guarantee that Christ, the Head, will one day bring us, his members, into heaven. Third, as a guarantee, Christ sent the Holy Spirit, by whose power we live, not for the things of this world, but for the things above, where Christ sits at the right hand of God. The doctrine states, “ Our bodies are in heaven in Christ, and this is a sure guarantee that Christ, the head, will eventually bring us, his members, into heaven, ” but there are two contradictions. The first contradiction is that the flesh cannot be in heaven, while the spirit, clothed in a spiritual body, can be in heaven. Ephesians 2:5-6 says, "Even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ — by grace you have been saved — and raised us up with him and seated us with him in the ...

Question 48: If the human nature is not present wherever the divine nature is, are not the two natures in Christ thus separated from one another?

  Question 48: If the human nature is not present wherever the divine nature is, are not the two natures in Christ thus separated from one another? Answer: Not at all. Since the divine nature is incomprehensible and present everywhere, even though it is outside the human nature it has assumed, it is personally united to it within it. Jesus Christ was both the Son of God and the Son of Man. Therefore, divinity and personality coexisted. Although divinity and personality coexist in Jesus, they are not mixed, and personality does not influence divinity. Jesus' humanity allowed God to personally experience humanity in flesh, experiencing the fragility of the human body. Therefore, God showed compassion for repentant humanity. Church people are making the mistake of believing that diligent effort can develop a person into a god. A person cannot become divine through effort. 2 Peter 1:4, "Through these he has granted us his precious and very great promises, so that through the...