Pneumatology: The Doctrine Of The Holy Spirit

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The word Pneumatology comes from the greek word pneuma which means spirit, breath, wind, etc. So Pneumatology is the doctrine of the Holy Spirit. In the church the Holy Spirit is sometimes put on the back burner and does not get the credit that it deserves. We forget that the Holy Spirit works in unity with the Father and Son, and is equally God. The Holy Spirit is a person of God. He is not a mode of operation or an attribute, but fully God. That is why the Holy Spirit can not be anything but a person because only a person with a center of self consciousness can do those things. Jesus Christ was both fully human and fully God at the same time, He lowered himself through kenosis to be like us. Through the Holy Spirit we are risen up, we are …show more content…

The doctrine of the church is ecclesiology, which comes from the greek word church - human beings who are like Christ. This doctrine is a doctrine for the universal church. We sometimes enter a singular way of talking about our culture when the bible speaks in plurality. Ecclesiology gives us the basis of our belief and marks of the church which gives us clarity of what it means to be “one holy catholic and apostolic.” The church bears four marks: Unity, Holiness, Catholicity, and Apostolicity. These four marks are the truth about the church. We must act in Unity because the church is one, 1 Corinthians 12:12 say “Just as the body is one and as many members, and all the members of the body, though many, are one body, so it is with Christ.” The Holiness is a inheritance given to us by Christ. However we can not achieve that alone. As we open ourselves to the Holy Spirit, He actualizes that for us. Catholicity is the universality and wholeness the church, making room for people to enter the body of Christ. Lastly is apostolicity which is about the authority and truth, and the authority of the apostles is in their eyewitness testimony of Jesus (2 Peter 1:16). The church teaches about the apostles truth that is true to the gospel of Jesus

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