where did the holy spirit come from?
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It came shortly after man discovered/invented fermentation of grain or fruit.
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It comes from the Prime Mover. The one who started the first large bang. Some people label that first mover as God, Jehovah, or Allah.
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God created all of us. We are literally His children. He created our spirits, and gave us the power to create physical bodies for his children.
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jesus christ, god and the holy spirit
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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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I did, and many other people with me. I learned about the Holy Trinity. The Father is love, mercy and compassion. The Son is the path to the Father. Nobody goes to the Father except through the Son. The Holy Spirit is wisdom.
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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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You have to understand first that we are not on the same realm as God.  God is higher than us.  His ways and his thought are higher than ours.  We should never question anything that God has done\n\nAs for where God came from...God has always been.  It is hard for us to imagine this because we think only as humans.  To us,  there is a beginning and an ending to all things.  Not to God.  God always has been and always will be.
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You receive the holy spirit when you ask for it ...you know you have it when you speak in tongues while praising God
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is it jesus (or the holy spirit)??
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God has always been.  Everything that is comes from God.  God exists in one nature but as three persons, Father, Son and Holy Spirit.  The three persons have always been.  They are a loving relationship.  The Father and Son loving each other with the Holy Spirit being the love that unites them.  The Son is also known as the Word or Knowledge of God.  When God created the world time began.  There was no time before the beginning of creation.   Thousands (or perhaps billions) of years after the beginning of creation, God chose to enter into his own creation as a man.  The Word became flesh.  Jesus does not exist prior to being conceived in Mary.  The Son of God does exist prior to the beginning of the world.
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"God"  He is the Father, Son(Jesus), And Holy Spirit. Jesus told his disciples he would return to them through the Holy spirit God is the Holy Spirit. They are all the same One God.  God Bless!!
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The notion of the Trinity was (I believe) first coined by Tertullian in approx. 200 AD to refer to 3 of something, though vague references to God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit being one are present in the New Testament (Matthew 28:19; 2 Corinthians 13:14 and a few more).  It was not until LATER theological study that the idea became part of the Christian Orthodox dogma.  It was made official by the first Council of Nicea, hence the line in the Nicene Creed: "And I believe in the Holy Spirit, the giver of life, who proceeds from the father, whom together with the Father and the Son is worshipped and glorified, who spoke through the Prophets."
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Well according the bible we pray in the name of Jesus through the Holy Spirit To the Father. However I dont belive God is up there saying Opps you didnt address the right one of us your prayer doesnt count. LOL
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The true God is a spirit.  He is love and his words are truth. He is all knowing, all powerful and all present. He is the God whom the Hebrew patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob served.  He was displeased with the wickedness of his people, Israel and with the sins of mankind, as His creation.  Therefore, he sent Jesus Christ into the world (this is the other form He took) in order to experience our pain and to atone for sin and thereby, make mankind (Christian believers) worthy of eternal life in God's kingdom. When man rejected Jesus Christ, and sent Him back out of the world, God sent the Holy Spirit to live inside ALL people who love Him, believe in Him and obey Him.
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no homo sapiens did not come from "God" the concept of higher beings was a creation by man to explain the unexplainable, so therefore it was not "God" who created man but man who created "God"\n\nAs for the question homo sapiens came about essentially by pure chance and through the evolutionary process, the first home sapiens started out in africa and spread out throughout the rest of the world, and while the breed with themselves they also breed with the homo erectus and absorbing them
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The Holy Spirit is key to learning the Bible and knowing Jesus Christ. And Jesus knows that some will mis-read, or not be able to read. Or that a younger Christian might not be familiair enough with the Holy Spirit to ask God to fill him/her daily.\n\nThe Lord knows human weaknesses.  So.........................