Holy Spirit Research Paper

Holy Spirit (Pneumatology)
I believe that the Holy Spirit is a divine person, who dwells, guides, teaches, empowers believers (John 16:13) to helps them to live godly lives, and who convince the world of sin, of righteousness, and of judgment (Acts 1:8).
The Holy Spirit is a divine person (John 14:15-18). He preexists before the creation (Gen. 1:1, 2, 26), He is where God's presence is (Isa. 68:10-11) and He is eternal (Heb. 9:14). The Holy Spirit is God with all the distinctively divine attributes (Luke 1:35; Acts 5:3-4; 1 Cor. 2:10, 11; 3:16; 6:19-20).
The Holy Spirit gives the believers new life (John 3:6-7), witnesses to us that we are God’s children (Rom 8:16), fills our hearts with God’s love (Rm. 5:5), makes our body his temple (1 …show more content…
Filling with the Holy Spirit (Acts 4:8, 7:55) refers to a repeated event that the Holy Spirit gains more control of a believer’s life in a Christian walk while full of the Holy Spirit (Acts 6:3, 11:24) refers to a significant accumulation of the filling with the Holy Spirit events. Believers need to sustain and expand the Spirit’s fullness; this is intended to be a developing experience (Eph. 1: 17-19, 5:18-21).
The Spirit distributes are the spiritual gifts differently to each believer (1 Cor. 12:4-6) for the healthy growth of the church ((Eph 4:11-13; 1 Cor. 12:7). There are at least twenty gifts mentioned in the New Testament (1 Cor. 12, Rm. 12:3-8, Eph. 4:7-12, 1 Pet. 4:10-11) and not all gifts are necessarily miraculous or available today, such as the gift of prophecy for God’s self-revelation which was completed in Christ. Scripture also assures us that each Christian has at least one spiritual gift or capacity for service because the spiritual gifts are not for us to help, comfort, and strengthen ourselves, but …show more content…
God created angles (Rom 8:38–39; Heb 1:7) by His command (Ps 148:5) directly and individually (Mark 12:25) before God created the earth (Job 38:4-7) and angles were originally righteousness and holiness (Eze 28:15; Mark 8:38; Luke 9:26) but some angles rebelled against God and fallen from heaven (Isa 14:12-14; Eze 28:12-17; 2 Pet 2:4; Jude 6; Rev 12:7; Matt 8:29).
Demons are evil/falling angles who sinned against God and who now continually work evil in the world, they can only influence (oppress) but cannot possess (control) Christians (Gal. 5:16–18; 1 Cor. 3:1–3; cf. John 14:16–17; Eph. 4:30) because the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor. 6:19–20) and the Spirit is greater in power than demonic spirits (Matt. 12:28; 1 John 4:4).
Satan is not just a personification of abstract evil, but is a real personality with cognition (Matt 4:6; 2 Cor 2:11, 11:3; Eph 6:11), volition (Isa 14:12-14; 2 Tim 2:26), and emotion (Rev 12:12), metamorphic with finite being (Job 1:12; 2:10; 1 Cor. 10:13). Satan was judged at the cross, but this judgment has not been fully executed (John 12:31;

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