It's kinda hard because most analogies make us thing that each person of the trinity isn't completely God. John H 20 June, 2011 at 21:56 PS – this is kind-of what I was trying to get at in this post on my own blog yesterday : that we know God primarily in what he does, not in what he is.
2. 3 – The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit … The Holy Spirit gives us power.
What about the Holy Spirit?
A few other analogies have been used around Cru to help bring clarity to our vital relationship with the Holy Spirit: Getting Drunk – A concept more familiar to the college students we’ve worked with than we’d like, this article follows Ephesians 5:18 by comparing and contrasting the effects of the Spirit with the effects of wine and gives some practical steps for allowing the Spirit to have more of your life. So it is with everyone born of the Spirit." By analogy, then, the Holy Spirit can represent the energy of the spirit realm. Acts 1:8 But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth. If we are to get the analogy, we must avoid being hasty with metaphors. The Holy Spirit In The Church Once Saved Always Saved Holy Spirit, Activities Of Baptism, significance of God's Yoke One Church Sanctification, Means And Results Fellowship, In The Gospel Communion With God Greeks Slavery, In Nt Exclusiveness Divisions, Contrary To The Body
Those 120 persons in the upper room on that day had become—like Elihu in the Job passage—new wineskins that just had to vent. The Holy Spirit Comes as Wine Ephesians 5:18 draws an analogy for the symbolism of the Holy Spirit as wine. You still seem to be saying that the Son and Holy Spirit are coming from the brick which makes them somehow less than the brick, which is God the father if I understand the analogy correctly. In the Gospels, Jesus describes the new work of God, conveyed by the ministry of the Spirit, as new wine coming into old vessels.
Today’s lesson is all about the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit fuels you to do the work that God wants you to do… no matter your profession. The Bible teaches three truths: 1 – there is one God. Holy Spirit Lutheran Church, West Bloomfield Michigan Yesterday at 6:12 AM Daily Reading: Luke 10:21-24 Jesus Rejoices At that same hour Jesu ... s rejoiced in the Holy Spirit and said, “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have hidden these things from the wise and the intelligent and have revealed them to infants; yes, Father, for such was your gracious will.
The brick analogy seems to break down because 1. John 3:8 The wind blows wherever it pleases. A man filled with the Holy Spirit is transformed into a cyclone. Metaphors are intended to bring us to the unknown by means of the known. (1 John 2:20) There is nothing in the realm of matter that can affect (touch, move or hinder movement, inflict damage of any kind or alter the composition of) anything in the spirit realm.
In this blog series, I will present eight biblical metaphors revealing the Holy Spirit. 2 – The Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are each God. By Anonymous at 8/01/2007 This article compares the Holy Spirit to a flame and attempts to weaken the claims found in the bible about the Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit also came to give us power. Interaction between realms. [ODCC, p. The flame informs in a way that the Holy Spirit does not. In the second chapter of the Acts of the Apostles (verse 3), Saint Luke describes the descent of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost in these words: “Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire, which parted and came to rest on each of them.” 340.]