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Son about Christ. These terms The Bible speaks of the
have been used by Christians Holy Spirit in various terms:
to clarify their belief that God - The Third Hypostases:
has revealed Himself to man in Because the third
a unique way in Christ. Hypostases is one of the
(Horden, 1989: 10) three divine Hypostases.
On this basis, after the death - Spirit: Because he is the
of Jesus, they made him the creator and inventor of
Christ and then the Lord, who life.
is equal in nature to the - Holy: One of his special
Creator God. tasks is to sanctify the
Along with Christ, there is hearts of the believers.
another person called the Holy
Spirit, who does not have an Accordingly, the Spirit of
independent nature at the first; God and the Spirit of Christ
but gradually this factor also are so named because of their
creates a divine personality love for God and Christ.
that exercises power alongside In the Bible we can see the
God the Father. The character characteristics of the Holy
of the Holy Spirit (Old Spirit, which indicates the fact
Testament) in the Christian that he has a true personality,
church was completely transformed. teaches, (Luke, 12: 12; John,
In these epistles, the Spirit of 14: 26) speaks (Matthew, 10:
God has no separate identity and 20; Mark, 13: 11) and guides
never pretends to be a divine (Matthew, 4: 1; Luke, 4: 1)
being; rather, like the power and these attributes cannot be
emanating from God, it affects attributed to an unknown
human beings and often leads to force; rather, they belong to
their power. The prophets and one person. (Khachiki, 1982: 56)
men of God are influenced by the The Holy Spirit is the
Holy Spirit and the power of supporter of the apostles in
miracles or are able to spreading the faith; because he
forecasting. (Ashtiani, 2011: 335) is the spirit of truth that
