When did this Holy Spirit concept begin?
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The Spirit of God has ALWAYS empowered believers, even in the Old Testament.  The best known of these is probably Samson.\n\nThe difference is that when Jesus ascended into heaven, He sent the Holy Spirit to empower the Church to do the works of God, the most difficult of which is to believe.
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the spirit of his father in heaven. God! he is called here the holy ghost for God is a trinity. he is the father, the son, and the holy ghost.
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The first "Pentecostals" in the modern sense appeared on the scene in 1901 in the city of Topeka, Kansas in a Bible school conducted by Charles Fox Parham, a holiness teacher and former Methodist pastor. In spite of controversy over the origins and timing of Parham's emphasis on glossolalia, all historians agree that the movement began during the first days of 1901 just as the world entered the Twentieth Century. The first person to be baptized in the Holy Spirit accompanied by speaking in tongues was Agnes Ozman, one of Parham's Bible School students, who spoke in tongues on the very first day of the new century, January 1, 1901. According to J. Roswell Flower, the founding Secretary of the Assemblies of God, Ozman's experience was the "touch felt round the world," an event which "made the Pentecostal Movement of the Twentieth Century." \n\nAs a result of this Topeka Pentecost, Parham formulated the doctrine that tongues was the "Bible evidence" of the baptism in the Holy Spirit. He also taught that tongues was a supernatural impartation of human languages (xenoglossolalia) for the purpose of world evangelization. Henceforth, he taught, missionaries need not study foreign languages since they would be able to preach in miraculous tongues all over the world. Armed with this new theology, Parham founded a church movement which he called the "Apostolic Faith" and began a whirlwind revival tour of the American middle west to promote his exciting new experience. \n\nIt was not until 1906, however, that Pentecostalism achieved worldwide attention through the Azusa Street revival in Los Angeles led by the African-American preacher William Joseph Seymour. He learned about the tongues-attested baptism in a Bible school that Parham conducted in Houston, Texas in 1905. Invited to pastor a black holiness church in Los Angeles in 1906, Seymour opened the historic meeting in April, 1906 in a former African Methodist Episcopal (AME) church building at 312 Azusa Street in downtown Los Angeles. \n\nWhat happened at Azusa Street has fascinated church historians for decades and has yet to be fully understood and explained. For over three years, the Azusa Street "Apostolic Faith Mission" conducted three services a day, seven days a week, where thousands of seekers received the tongues baptism. Word of the revival was spread abroad through The Apostolic Faith, a paper that Seymour sent free of charge to some 50,000 subscribers. From Azusa Street Pentecostalism spread rapidly around the world and began its advance toward becoming a major force in Christendom. \n\nThe Azusa Street movement seems to have been a merger of white American holiness religion with worship styles derived from the African-American Christian tradition which had developed since the days of chattel slavery in the South. The expressive worship and praise at Azusa Street, which included shouting and dancing, had been common among Appalachian whites as well as Southern blacks. The admixture of tongues and other charisms with black music and worship styles created a new and indigenous form of Pentecostalism that was to prove extremely attractive to disinherited and deprived people, both in America and other nations of the world. \n\nThe interracial aspects of the movement in Los Angeles were a striking exception to the racism and segregation of the times. The phenomenon of blacks and whites worshipping together under a black pastor seemed incredible to many observers. The ethos of the meeting was captured by Frank Bartleman, a white Azusa participant, when he said of Azusa Street, "The color line was washed away in the blood." Indeed, people from all the ethnic minorities of Los Angeles, a city which Bartleman called "the American Jerusalem," were represented at Azusa Steet. \n\nThe place of William Seymour as an important religious leader now seems to be assured. As early as 1972 Sidney Ah
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The Holy Spirit, through which, Jesus was immaculetely conceived in Mary's womb.
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Yes.  It was started by Jesus, who is both God and man.
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Most Christians believe in the Holy Trinity: God the Father, the Son (Jesus) and the holy spirit. They are three aspects of the same thing (think of ice, water and steam). It is really complicated but that it baisically it.\n\nIf you want a bit more detail: God is the creator and he came down to earth in the form of his son Jesus. He had to live his life completely like a man (be born, be tempted etc) so that he could die and take all our sins so we could be forgiven (if we aaccept him). The Holy spirit is the presence that we sometimes feel on earth nowadays.
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As far as i know the concept of trinity was only introduced years after the Bible was written/revealed.
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"Holy Ghost is a wagering theory that is used by numerologists. The suggestion is that good things happen in threes (reference to the Biblical Trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost). Players of the Holy Ghost theory believe that when a certain jockey, saddle cloth number, post position, trainer, etc., scores two wins, then it follows that there will be a third success, since good luck tends to run in groups of threes."\nAnd\n"the Holy Spirit (also called the Holy Ghost in Trinitarian Christianity;"
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United in One Spirit points towards the idea that all Christians, true Christians, are united and together.  Paul, to the Corinthians, uses the idea of a body.  We are the body of Christ.  The eye cannot operate alone and it needs the head.  The body needs the legs.  We all need each other and belong to God, the One Holy Spirit.  Also it's the Holy Spirit that binds us all and adopts us into the Heavenly Family.  We are all connected and are one family.  \n\nYou've heard of one country under God; well, you can say that we are one Family under God.
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Yes the Holy Spirit is in us and it does say that we need no one to teach us. Is not saying that we should not listen to know one like a pastor or a teacher of the word. Its just saying that we will not be deceived by anyone because we have the Holy Spirit in us, and hes our teacher. And yes the ten commandments were for the desiples and for us.
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The term originally derives from Acts chapter 2 where the early Christians were gathered together on the day of Pentecost, and were baptized by fire in fulfillment of the prophecy given by Joel in the Old Testament.\n\nMany Christians believe that the supernatural ability to speak in other tongues is the evidence of baptism by fire (also called baptism in/with/by the Holy Spirit.) I do not believe there is enough scriptural evidence to fully support this (as being the ONLY evidence), but thought I should include it, as I think your question mentioned wanting to know the evidence. I think a greater evidence of this baptism is in the fruit of the Spirit (Galatians 5:22-23) being manifested, and most importantly, in the ability to effectivly witness to the unique life, death and resurrection of Christ, and His transforming power in your own life.
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Not everyone that claims it IS really.  I believe in the Holy  Spirit, but I think most people mistake their emotions for inspirations.
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Rev.14:1-4 tells of 144,000 taken from the earth to rule as kings and priests with Jesus Christ in Heaven.(Rev.20:6)\nThis in gathering first started at Pentecost 33CE when Holy Spirit appeared as tongues of fire on the 120 faithful men and women in the upper room.\nThe 144,000 spirit anointed are also spoken of as the "Israel of God"(Gal.6:16)and the "Little Flock"(Luke 12:32).
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I always was told that speaking in tongues was the evidence, but it was not until I had an experience like described in the bible.  It says in the bible that fire rested on the follower's heads.  My experience was similar, but the flame rested in my heart.  After that I began to change.  I could like, see people through God's eyes, feel his love for them.  All this was with my heart.  It still amazes me how God loves people, all people.  My behavior changed.  My desires changed.  I often have states of bliss where I feel engulfed in love.  I can see why the holy spirit is referred to as the "comforter".  To me this was the baptism of the holy spirit.
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GOD (Father, Son, Holy Spirit)
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the concept of a higher being came first. even today god is not a universal word for th higher being that a lot of people believe created humanity.
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God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit are three separate. You are speaking of the Trinity which is not Biblical. God is greater than Jesus. Jesus knew this, and that's why he said it.  The only way that they are one and the same is through union. A husband a wife become one flesh when they are married, but that doesn't mean that they are one person. It means they are in union with one another.