JEHOVAH’S WITNESSES AND THE HOLY SPIRIT
by Giuseppe Monno Jehovah’s Witnesses hold that the Holy Spirit is not a divine Person, but an impersonal active force of God. They even claim that any sincere reader of the Bible would have to reach this conclusion. In reality, this view stems from a selective and overly narrow reading of Scripture, along with theological […]
THE HOLY SPIRIT
By Giuseppe Monno In classical Trinitarian doctrine, the Holy Spirit is a Person truly distinct from the Father and the Son. Yet, like the Son, He fully shares the one indivisible divine nature. Thus, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit are one God in being, while remaining distinct in their relations of origin. […]
The Holy Spirit
“Do you know that the Holy Spirit appeared five times on earth? As a dove at our Lord’s Baptism; as a cloud at the Transfiguration; as a breath when our Lord says of the Apostles, breathing on them, “Receive the Holy Spirit. Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven; whose sins you shall retain, […]
The Gifts and Fruits of The Holy Spirit in the Catechism of the Catholic Church
1830 The moral life of Christians is sustained by the gifts of the Holy Spirit. These are permanent dispositions which make man docile in following the promptings of the Holy Spirit. 1831 The seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are wisdom, understanding, counsel, fortitude, knowledge, piety, and fear of the Lord. They belong in their […]