Table 1 Subject Category:
Holy Spirit

  • Christianity
  • Christian Science
  • Spiritualism
  • Jehovah's Witnesses
  • Mormonism
  • The Way International
  • Unity
  • Unification Church
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    BIBLICAL CHRISTIANITY

    Holy Spirit

    When the Comforter is come, whom I will send unto you from the Father, even the Spirit of truth...he shall testify of me (John 15:26).

    When he is come, he will reprove the world of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment (John 16:8).

    When he, the Spirit of truth, is come, he will guide you into all truth (John 16:13).

    The Comforter, who is the Holy Spirit...he shall teach you all things (John 14:26).

    His spirit that dwelleth in you (Romans 8:11).

    Be filled with the Spirit (Ephesians 5:18; see also I Corinthians 3:16; Ephesians 3:16).

    But ye are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if so be that the Spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not the Spirit of Christ, he is none of his (Romans 8:9; see also vv. 14, 16).
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    CHRISTIAN SCIENCE

    Holy Spirit

    Holy Ghost is Divine Science--the development of eternal Life, Truth, and Love (SH, 588:78).

    In the words of St. John: "He shall give you another Comforter...." This Comforter I understand to be Divine Science (SH, 55:27-29).

    The Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters, (that is) Divine Science, the Word of God, saith to the darkness upon the face of error, "God is All in all" (SH, 503:8-14).
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    SPIRITUALISM

    Holy Spirit

    The Holy Spirit from God is the spirit of some holy person who has once been in the flesh (Hastings, p. 91).
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    JEHOVAH'S WITNESSES

    Holy Spirit

    The holy spirit is the invisible active force of Almighty God which moves his servants to do his will (LG, p. 108).
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    MORMONISM

    Holy Spirit

    The Holy Ghost is "a personage of Spirit." He does not have a body of flesh and bones, like the Father and the Son (DC, 130:22).

    He is "the influence of deity, the light of Christ, or of Truth" (Smith, CD p. 60).

    He "can only be in one place at one time" although he "emanates from Deity" like "electricity, or the universal ether...which fills the earth and the air, and is everywhere present" (McConkie, MD, pp. 359, 753).

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    THE WAY INTERNATIONAL

    Holy Spirit

    God is holy, and God is Spirit. The gift that He gives is holy spirit (JC, pp. 27-28).

    Many confuse the Giver, Holy Spirit, with the gift, holy spirit (JC, p. 128).

    In the new birth, man receives spirit from God, who is the Spirit (JC, p. 128).

    The speaking in tongues was the external manifestation of the receiving of the gift of holy spirit (JC, p. 131).

    At Pentecost the speaking in tongues was the external manifestation of the receiving of the gift of holy spirit....At the conclusion of his (Peter's) message, he taught them how to receive the new birth and speak in tongues (JC, p. 131).

    The holy spirit field...is the field God raised me up for....There's no one I can't lead into speaking in tongues, if they are Christian and want to do it (Elena S. Whiteside, The Way--Living in Love, p. 178).

    To worship by the spirit we must operate a manifestation of the holy spirit...which produces true worship in speaking in tongues (Wierwille, The New, Dynamic Church, p. 90).

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    UNITY

    Holy Spirit

    Definition: The very spirit of truth Iying latent within us each and every one (Unity Magazine, February 1918).

    The Father is Principle, the Son is that Principle revealed in the creative plan, the Holy Spirit is the executive power of both the Father and Son, carrying out the plan (MBD, p. 629).

    Spirit is substance...that invisible, intangible but real something which as its indestructible core and cause stands under or at the center of every visible thing in existence (Cady, God a Present Help, pp. 5354).

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    UNIFICATION CHURCH

    Holy Spirit

    The Holy Spirit is a female Spirit. She also cleanses the sins of the people in order to restore them, thus indentifying the sin committed by Eve....the Holy Spirit, being female (negativity) in working on earth (DP, p. 215).

    There must be a True Mother with the True Father, in order to give rebirth to fallen children as children of goodness. She is the Holy Spirit (DP, p. 215).
    Taken from: The Spirit of Truth and the Spirit of Error 2. Compiled by Steven Cory. Copyright 1986, Moody Bible Institute of Chicago. Moody Press. Used by permission.

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