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What the Bible Says about the Holy Spirit: Power from on High is unavailable, but you can change that!

The person and work of the Holy Spirit is a neglected study in many churches. Some Christians think that the subject is so deep and mysterious that it is futile to study it. Others hesitate to emphasize the study of the Holy Spirit since some religious groups hold such extreme views regarding Him. Still it is encouraging to see many Christians making a serious study of the Bible’s teaching on the...

life. This is the main connection between ruach and another Hebrew word, neshamah. In most of its approximately 25 uses, neshamah refers to ordinary human breath as the indicator of life. Genesis 2:7 describes God as breathing into the inert Adam’s nostrils the “neshamah of life.” When used of God, the “neshamah of God” is equivalent to the “ruach of God” in the sense of God’s creative and destroying breath. See 2 Sa 22:16; Job 4:9; 32:8; 33:4; 37:10; Ps 18:15; Isa 30:33. The third main connotation
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