Baptism with the Holy Spirit

The first thing that occurred was the development of the Pentecostal church. This was the beginning of speaking tongues. It was a form of fulfilling the baptism of the Holy Spirit. The Christians shunned those of Pentecostals faith, until some churches added tongue speaking practices, which was the beginning, of the charismatic movement. Charismatic Christians were not apart of a different denomination; they are…

like Rea's statement that, "Christians can be very different from one another, across cultures and across centuries. Yet in every culture the Christians hold core beliefs common." I think this speaks of something greater working through man (the Holy Spirit). He even could have went a step further I believe he could have added social economic status and still you would see these same common beliefs. As a Christian I have looked at key moments in my life that my faith was strengthened or my view…

that to form a union with God, one only needs invite the Holy Spirit into their hearts in the form of baptism. After that is complete, God promises his children protection from evil, and a place in paradise with him when we die and move on (McAllister). While many may view baptism as a form of possession, others like Anna Diehl believe the Holy Spirit is more of a “key” more so than an actual example of possession. She argues that the Holy Spirit is similar to that of a boarding pass, one cannot…

Baptism is a Christian sacrament of admission and adoption, almost invariably with the use of water, into the Christian Church generally. The canonical Gospels report that Jesus was baptized—a historical event to which a high degree of certainty can be assigned. Baptism has been called a sacrament and an ordinance of Jesus Christ. In some denominations, baptism is also called christening, but for others the word "christening" is reserved for the baptism of infants. Baptism has also given its…

“enlightened by the Holy Spirit”; 2) had “tasted the heavenly gift”; 3) they were “partakers of the Holy Spirit”; and 4) had tasted the “good word of God and the powers of the age to come.” As Dr. Toussaint describes, the context chronicles someone “in the early church, who was under deep conviction of sin, and it should be noticed that he [the author] does not mention forgiveness of sins, cleansing, sanctification, the salvation of the soul, new life or the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.” It…

offspring of man alluded to in Jesus’ title Son of Man are not physical sons but spiritual sons in that God’s spirit is passed on as a light over and over. The Inclusion of God the Spirit implies that God is everyone—at least everyone who believes in and accepts Jesus Christ—on account of his spirit being given to all who believe in Him. The Father-Son relationship cycle is representative of God’s Spirit flowing through his creation. It simply shows the breadth of his power. “As you, Father, are…

In a study of the eschatology of the Kingdom of God, the Bible is very clear on when and how His kingdom is to be. In Matthew 12:28, in the New American Standard Bible it says, “But if I cast out demons by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God has come upon you”, here Jesus is explaining how through Him, the Kingdom of God is coming and through His assentation into Heaven, He brings the kingdom into the spiritual realm of this world. In Mark 1:15, it says, “the time has is fulfilled, the…

Theologians John Calvin (1509-1564) John Calvin was born July 10, 1509, at Noyon, France, an ancient cathedral city about seventy miles Northeast of Paris. Calvin was a wanted man so with his brother and sister and two friends, ran off of Strasbourg. After he converted to the ‘’evangelical’’ faith during the time of his published education of the Institutes of the Christian Religion, he also was a prominent French theologian during the Protestant Reformation. As a student he studied the liberal…

the covering of His Holy Spirit, to give him power and show his election and rite of succession. With this power Elisha was able to do great works for the Lord. God had chosen His only begotten son, equipping Him with the power to raise the dead, to give sight to the blind, to perform the impossible in the midst of unbelief, and to die for the sins of the whole world, all in order to bring His creation back to Himself. Yet, none of this would occur until Christ’s baptism by John at the Jordan…

forgot that talking to God means that God is “listening” to what I am saying in the prayer. As one who was praying, I forgot another part of the reality that when someone is listening to someone, it means they are present with them physically or in spirit, and are receiving them with due love and respect, without a judgmental eye or attitude. This covers the aspect of the Doctrine of God claiming that God is not only omnipotent and omnipresent, but also a Listener who is waiting to listen to…