1. The Holy Spirit is less than, outside of, or other than God.
2. The Holy Spirit is a force rather than a person.
3. The Holy Spirit reveals truth that can supersede Scripture.
4. The Holy Spirit works in us primarily at baptism.
5. The Holy Spirit comes and goes in the Christian life.
6. The Holy Spirit ceased giving certain spiritual gifts after the apostolic age.
7. The Holy Spirit motivates us by guilt, shame, and fear.
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In the Bible, the Holy Spirit is understood to be God’s very breath—the pure expression of his sustaining, creating, and transforming life.
In the Nicene Creed, the Holy Spirit is called “the giver of life.” Anything we can, and could say about the Holy Spirit will always come back to the fact that the Spirit is the breath, the wind, the living, active, creative, and life-giving presence—of the Creator of the universe.
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