La Vraie Religion Chrétienne # 158
158. Puisque, dans ce Chapitre, il a été traité de L'ESPRIT SAINT, il est absolument important de faire remarquer que l'Esprit Saint n'est nommé nulle part dans la Parole de l'Ancien Testament, mais qu'il est dit seulement l'Esprit de Sainteté dans trois endroits, une fois dans David, Psaumes 51:13; et deux fois dans Esaïe 63:10-11. Mais, dans la Parole du Nouveau Testament, tant dans les Evangélistes, que dans les Actes des Apôtres et dans leurs Épîtres, il est fréquemment nommé, et cela, parce qu'il y eut pour la première fois un Esprit Saint, alors que le Seigneur vint dans le monde; en effet, l'Esprit Saint procède du Seigneur d'après le Père, car le SEIGNEUR EST SEUL SAINT, Apocalypse 15:1. C'est même pour cela qu'il est dit par l'Ange Gabriel à Marie Mère:
« Le SAINT (SANCTUM) qui naîtra de toi. » - Luc 1:35.
S'il a été dit:
« Il n'y avait pas encore un Esprit Saint parce que Jésus n’était pas encore glorifié, » - Jean 7:39, tandis qu'auparavant il est dit qu'un Esprit Saint a rempli Elisabeth. Luc 1:41, puis Zacharie, Luc 1:67, et aussi Siméon, Luc 2:25, c'était parce que l'Esprit de Jéhovah le Père les avait remplis, lequel Esprit fut nommé Esprit Saint à cause du Seigneur, qui était déjà dans le Monde.
C'est pour cette raison que dans la Parole de l'Ancien Testament il n'est dit, en aucun endroit, que les Prophètes aient parlé d'après l'Esprit Saint, mais il est dit que c'est d'après Jéhovah ; en effet, il est dit partout:
« JEHOVAH M'A PARLÉ ; LA PAROLE M'A ÉTÉ ADRESSÉE PAR JÉHOVAH ; JÉHOVAH A DIT ; PAROLE DE JEHOVAH ; afin que personne ne doute qu'il en soit ainsi, je vais seulement citer les passages de Jérémie, où ces expressions sont employées ;
Jérémie 1:1, 4, 7, 11-14, 19.
Jérémie 2:1-5, 9, 19, 22, 29, 31.
Jérémie 3:1, 6, 10, 12, 14, 16.Jérémie 4:1, 3, 9, 17, 27.
Jérémie 5:11, 14, 18, 22, 29.
Jérémie 6:6, 9, 12, 15-16, 21-22.
Jérémie 7:1, 3, 11, 13, 19-21.
Jérémie 8:1, 3, 12-13.
Jérémie 9:2, 6, 8, 12, 14, 16, 21-24.
Jérémie 11:1, 6, 9, 11, 17-18, 21-22.
Jérémie 12:14, 17, Jeremiah 12:Jérémie 13:1, 3, 6, 8-9, 11-15, 25.
Jérémie 14:1, 10, 14-15.
Jérémie 15:1-3, 6, 11, 19-20.
Jérémie 16:1, 3, 5, 9, 14, 16.
Jérémie 17:5, 9, 15, 19-21, 24.
Jérémie 18:1, 5-6, 11, 13.
Jérémie 19:1, 3, 6, 12, 15.
Jérémie 21:1, 4, 7-8, 11-12.
Jérémie 22:1-3, 5-6, 11, 16, 18, 24, 29-30, Jeremiah 22:Jérémie 23:1-2, 4-5, 7, 11-12, 15, 24, 28-33, 38.
Jérémie 25:1, 3, 7-9, 12, 15, 27-29, 32.
Jérémie 27:1-2, 4, 8, 11, 16, 19, 21-22.
Jérémie 28:2, 12, 14, 16.
Jérémie 29:4, 8-11, 14, 16, 19, Jeremiah 29:50, 21, 25, 30-32.
Jeremiah 30:1-3-5, 8, 10-12, 17-18, 21.
Jérémie 31:1-2, 10, 15-17, 23, 27-28, 31-38.
Jérémie 32:1, 6, 14, 16, 28, 26, 28, 30, 36, 42, 44.
Jérémie 33:1-2, 4, 10, 12-14, 17, 19-20, 23, 25.
Jérémie 34:1-2, 4-5, 8, 12-13, 17, 22.
Jérémie 35:1, 13, 17-19.
Jérémie 36:1, 6, 27, 29-30.
Jeremiah 39:15-16-18.
Jérémie 42:7, 9, 15, 18-19.
Jérémie 44:1-2, 7, 11, 24, Jeremiah 44:55, 26, Jeremiah 44:36.
Jérémie 46:1, 23, 25-26, 28.
Jérémie 48:1, 8, 12, 30, 35, 38, 40, 43-44, 47.
Jérémie 49:2, 5-7, 12-13, 16, 18, 26, 28, 30, 32, 34-35, 37-39.
Jérémie 50:1, 4, 10, 18, 20-21, 30-31, 33, 35, 40.
Jérémie 51:1, 25, 33, 36, 39, 52-53, 58,
Voilà seulement pour JEREMIE ; des expressions semblables se trouvent dans tous les autres Prophètes, et il n'y est pas dit que l'Esprit Saint ait parlé, ni que Jéhovah leur ait parlé par l'Esprit Saint.
Holy Spirit
Napsal(a) New Christian Bible Study Staff, John Odhner
The nature of the Holy Spirit is a topic where there's a marked difference between standard Christian theology and the New Christian perspective. The "official" dogma of most Christian teaching is that the Holy Spirit is one of the three persons that make up one God, in the role of reaching out to people with the power of God to bring them into a desire for righteousness. He is perceived to be proceeding from the other two: God the Father and Jesus the Son.
That old formulation was the result of three centuries of debate among early Christians, as they tried to understand the nature of God. At that time, there was a sizeable minority that rejected the God-in-three-persons view, but -- the majority won out, at the Council of Nicea, in 325 AD.
The New Christian teaching is more akin to some of the old minority viewpoints. It regards the Holy Spirit as a force, or activity, coming from God -- not a separate being. This aligns with our everyday understanding of "spirit" as the projection of someone's personality. It also accounts for the fact that the term "the Holy Spirit" does not occur in Old Testament, which instead uses phrases such "the spirit of God," "the spirit of Jehovah" and "the spirit of the Lord," where the idea of spirit connected closely with the person of God.
The Writings describe the Father, Son and Holy Spirit as three attributes of one person: the soul, body and spirit of the one God. They also say that the term "Holy Spirit" emerges in the New Testament because it is connected with the Lord's advent in the physical body of Jesus, and because of the way that advent changed the way we can learn the Lord's truth and become good people.
According to the Writings, the churches that came before the advent were "representative." The people in them (in the best of those churches, anyway) knew that the Lord had created the world, and that the world was thus an image of the Lord, and they had the ability to look at that created world and understand its spiritual messages; they could look at the world and understand the Lord. And they did it without trying and with great depth, much the way we can read a book when what we're actually seeing is a bunch of black squiggles on a white sheet of paper.
That ability was eventually twisted into idol-worship and magic, however, as people slid into evil. The Lord used the Children of Israel to preserve symbolic forms of worship, but even they didn't know the deeper meaning of the rituals they followed. With the world thus bereft of real understanding, the Lord took on a human body so He could offer people new ideas directly. That's why the Writings say that He represents divine truth ("the Word became flesh," as it is put in John 1:14).
The Holy Spirit at heart also represents divine truth, the truth offered by the Lord through his ministry in the world and its record in the New Testament. The term "the Holy Spirit" is also used in a more general sense to mean the divine activity and the divine effect, which work through true teachings to have an impact on our lives.
Such a direct connection between the Lord and us was not something that could come through representatives; it had to come from the Lord as a man walking the earth during His physical life or - in modern times - through the image we have of Him as a man in His physical life. That's why people did not receive the Holy Spirit before the Lord's advent.
What we have now, though, is a full-blown idea of the Lord, with God the Father representing His soul, the Son representing his body, and the Holy Spirit representing His actions and His impact on people.
(Odkazy: The Doctrine of the New Jerusalem Regarding the Lord 58; True Christian Religion 138, 139, 140, 142, 153, 158, 163, 164, 166, 167, 168, 170, 172)
