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Carefully mine the New Testament gospels and the book of Acts to understand what the Holy Spirit meant in the lives of early believers with Craig Keener. Christianity did not arise in a vacuum, but rather it appropriated, modified, and utilized the Jewish understanding of the work of the Holy Spirit. By understanding the world in which Christianity emerged, we can better understand the earliest...

into the wilderness where he would be tested by the devil; that same Spirit empowers believers to engage the tester as Jesus did, both by signs and by suffering. In popular modern parlance, Mark might be called a charismatic posttribulationalist. Thus, while Mark is not as explicit as Luke-Acts, he is certainly more charismatic than Weeden allows (unless he is so inept as to leave precisely the contrary impression from the one he intended). Yet his charismatic exegesis of Jesus is not born of Hellenistic
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