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e. For the majority of Christian denominations, the Holy Spirit, or Holy Ghost, is believed to be the third Personof the Trinity,[1]a triune God manifested as God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit, each being God. [2][3][4]NontrinitarianChristians, who reject the doctrine of the Trinity, differ significantly from mainstream ...
The Ascension of Jesus (anglicized from the Vulgate Latin: ascensio Iesu, lit. 'ascent of Jesus') is the Christian belief, reflected in the major Christian creeds and confessional statements, that Jesus ascended to Heaven after his resurrection, where he was exalted as Lord and Christ, [1] [2] sitting at the right hand of God.
Incarnation refers to the act of a pre-existent divine person, the Son of God, in becoming a human being. While all Christians believed that Jesus was indeed the Unigenite Son of God, [5] "the divinity of Christ was a theologically charged topic for the Early Church." [6] Debate on this subject occurred during the first four centuries of ...
Divinization (Christian) In Christian theology, divinization ("divinization" may also refer to apotheosis, lit. "making divine"), or theopoesis or theosis, is the transforming effect of divine grace, [ 1] the spirit of God, or the atonement of Christ. Although it literally means to become divine, or to become God, most modern Christian ...
Mark, Matthew, and Luke depict the baptism in parallel passages. In all three gospels, the Spirit of God — the Holy Spirit in Luke, "the Spirit" in Mark, and "the Spirit of God" in Matthew — is depicted as descending upon Jesus immediately after his baptism accompanied by a voice from Heaven, but the accounts of Luke and Mark record the voice as addressing Jesus by saying "You are my ...
Eusebius worked out this threefold classification, writing: "And we have been told also that certain of the prophets themselves became, by the act of anointing, Christs in type, so that all these have reference to the true Christ, the divinely inspired and heavenly Word, who is the only high priest of all, and the only King of every creature, and the Father’s only supreme prophet of prophets."
The 'full assurance of faith' (Hebrews 10.22) is 'neither more nor less than hope; or a conviction, wrought in us by the Holy Ghost, that we have a measure of the true faith in Christ.'" [5] The full assurance of faith taught by Methodists is the Holy Spirit 's witness to a person who has been regenerated and entirely sanctified . [6]
This is often correlated to 1 John 5:13: "These things I have written to you who believe in the name of the Son of God, so that you may know that you have eternal life." [29] John's Gospel positions eternal life around the person of Jesus, the Christ. [30] In the Johannine view Christ can reveal life to humans because he is life himself.