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The term "holy spirit" appears three times in the Hebrew Bible: Psalm 51 refers to "Your holy spirit" (ruach kodshecha) [3] and Isaiah refers twice to "His holy spirit" (ruach kodsho). [ 4 ] Psalm 51 contains a triple parallelism between different types of "spirit":
- The Shema and God’s Plural Nature
- A Dual God: Judaism’s Understanding of The Godhead
- A Triune God: Judaism’s Understanding of The Holy Spirit
- Are Judaism and The Trinity Reconcilable?
The resounding and profound words throughout all generations: “Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God, the LORD is one!” (Deuteronomy 6:4). This has always been Israel’s great confession. This verse is used more than any other to affirm the fact that God is oneand to deny the possibility of plurality in the Godhead. On the one hand, it should be noted th...
Elohim and YHVH
The case for God’s plurality becomes stronger when we encounter the term Elohim applied to two personalities in the same verse, such as in Psalm 45:6-7: The first Elohim is being addressed, and the second Elohim is the God of the first Elohim. And so God’s God has anointed Him with the oil of gladness. And Hosea 1:7: The speaker is Elohim who says He will have mercy on the house of Judah and will save them by the instrumentality of YHVH, their Elohim. So Elohim number one will save Israel by...
If the Hebrew Scriptures point to plurality, then how many personalitiesexist in the Godhead? As we saw above, the names of God are applied to at least two different personalities. Yet, a deeper examination of the Hebrew Scriptures shows three distinct personalities that are considered divine. First, there are numerous references to the LORD YHVH. ...
The Hebrew Scriptures show a plural Godhead. The first person is consistently called YHVH, while the second person is given the names of YHVH, the Angel of YHVH, and the Servant of YHVH. Consistently and without fail, the second person is sent by the first person. The third person is referred to as the Spirit of YHVH or the Spirit of God or the Hol...
Jul 23, 2015 · Who is the Spirit of God or the Spirit of the Lord? In this overview study, a big picture will be painted about the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament according to the three partied division of the Hebrew canon (the Torah, Prophets, and Writings).
- Moskala ThD, Jiri
- 2013
Jan 11, 2012 · Includes sane analyses of the Hebrew Bible, so-called Intertestamental Judaism, and the New Testament, with an introductory chapter “What Is the Holy Spirit” and a concluding chapter on New Testament emphases and marks of the Holy Spirit.
- John Owen, Pneumatologia; or, a Discourse Concerning the Holy Spirit (Philadelphia: Towar and Hogan, 1827), 60; Samuel Macauley Jackson, ed., The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge (New York: Funk and Wagnalls, 1911), 193; Clarence Larkin, Dispensational Truth or God’s Plan and Purpose in the Ages (c.
- Michael Berenbaum and Fred Skolnik, eds. Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd ed. (Detroit: Macmillan, 2007); and Bill T. Arnold and H.G. M. Williamson, eds., Dictionary of the Old Testament (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2005).
- When referring to the third member of the Godhead, this study follows the scriptural pattern of using the names “Holy Ghost,” “Spirit,” and “Holy Spirit” interchangeably.
- Following the writing of the Old Testament, Rabbis used the word “shekhinah” to describe the presence of the Lord that filled the Tabernacle or Solomon’s Temple.
Jan 29, 2021 · Jesus said: “I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you” (John 16:7).
John the Baptist, who goes "before [the Lord] in the spirit and power of Elijah," proclaims Christ as the one who "will baptize you with the Holy Spirit and with fire." 38 Jesus will say of the Spirit: "I came to cast fire upon the earth; and would that it were already kindled!"
