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...