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Pneuma appears over 250 times in the Christian New Testament, and is the word used to refer to the Holy Spirit, i.e., the Spirit of God. As a result of the immediate explanation in John 14:17, the Paraclete in John 14:16 is considered to be the Holy Spirit. Depiction of the Holy Spirit as a Dove, from the Throne of Saint Peter, Saint Peter's ...
The Holy Spirit enables Christian life by dwelling in the individual believers and enables them to live a righteous and faithful life. [100] The Holy Spirit also acts as comforter or Paraclete, one who intercedes, or supports or acts as an advocate, particularly in
Three separate terms, namely Holy Spirit, Spirit of Truth, and Paraclete, are used in Johannine literature. [2] The "Spirit of Truth" is used in John 14:17, 15:26 and 16:13. [3] The First Epistle of John then contrasts this with the "spirit of error" in 1 John 4:6.
In Zoroastrianism, the Holy Spirit, also known as Spenta Mainyu, is a hypostasis of Ahura Mazda, the supreme Creator God of Zoroastrianism; the Holy Spirit is seen as the source of all goodness in the universe, the spark of all life within humanity, and is the ultimate guide for humanity to righteousness and communion with God.
There are some churches (see below) who teach that the Holy Spirit is feminine based on the fact that both feminine nouns and verbs, as well as feminine analogies, are thought to be used by the Bible to describe the Spirit of God in passages such as Genesis 1:1-2, Genesis 2:7, Deut. 32:11-12, Proverbs 1:20, Matthew 11:19, Luke 3:22, and John 3:5-6.
The Congregation of the Servants of the Paraclete is a Latin Church, Catholic religious congregation of men dedicated to ministry to priests and Brothers with personal difficulties. The congregation was founded in 1947 by Father Gerald Fitzgerald in Jemez Springs, New Mexico ; they are named for the Paraclete - a representation of the Holy ...
The English terms Holy Spirit and Holy Ghost have identical meanings, with the former having become the usual term in the 20th century. [33] Three separate terms, namely Holy Spirit, Spirit of Truth and Paraclete are used in the Johannine writings. [34] The "Spirit of Truth" is used in John 14:17, 15:26 and 16:13. [35]
For much of the 20th century, scholars interpreted the Gospel of John within the paradigm of this hypothetical Johannine community, [5] meaning that the gospel sprang from a late-1st-century Christian community excommunicated from the Jewish synagogue (probably meaning the Jewish community) [6] on account of its belief in Jesus as the promised Jewish messiah. [7]