Please Help :) Verses on accepting/receiving/being entered by God

[Lethe]

Hey,

I hope you are all having a lovely day.

I am currently writing a paper (Literature dissertation,) and realised you may be the best (quickest!) people to help me with this -

Can anyone give me any Bible verses/Psalms that describe being in any sense entered by God, Christ or the Holy Spirit?

I am an agnostic, and don't have a good enough knowledge of the Bible to remember specific verses on this, and looking it up (without knowing exactly what I'm looking for) is tricky!

Many thanks,

Lethe

[Joe 5859]

Originally Posted by Lethe

Hey,

I hope you are all having a lovely day.

I am currently writing a paper (Literature dissertation,) and realised you may be the best (quickest!) people to help me with this -

Can anyone give me any Bible verses/Psalms that describe being in any sense entered by God, Christ or the Holy Spirit?

I am an agnostic, and don't have a good enough knowledge of the Bible to remember specific verses on this, and looking it up (without knowing exactly what I'm looking for) is tricky!

Many thanks,

Lethe

It seems to me the best route to take would be to look at the theme in Scripture about receiving the Spirit. This starts all the way back in Genesis 2:7 when God formed Adam from the earth and breathed into him. The Hebrew word ruah is used for both "breath" and "spirit". So God breathing into Adam is another way of saying he was literally filled with the Spirit of God.

I don't really have time to parse out all the relevant Scripture verses, but you might take a look at John Paul II's Catechesis on the Holy Spirit. If you start perusing those audiences, I'm sure you'll come across a bunch of relevant Scripture citations.

You might also search the Catechism for phrases like "communion with God" and look at the footnotes of any relevant paragraphs for Scripture citations.

[clem456]

Originally Posted by Joe 5859

It seems to me the best route to take would be to look at the theme in Scripture about receiving the Spirit. This starts all the way back in Genesis 2:7 when God formed Adam from the earth and breathed into him. The Hebrew word ruah is used for both "breath" and "spirit". So God breathing into Adam is another way of saying he was literally filled with the Spirit of God.

I don't really have time to parse out all the relevant Scripture verses, but you might take a look at John Paul II's Catechesis on the Holy Spirit. If you start perusing those audiences, I'm sure you'll come across a bunch of relevant Scripture citations.

You might also search the Catechism for phrases like "communion with God" and look at the footnotes of any relevant paragraphs for Scripture citations.

Wow thanks for the link to the JP2 addresses! I didnt realize this was available. It's on my birthday list.

[Robert Burns]

Douay Rheims Haydock

John

20 : 18 Mary Magdalene cometh, and telleth the disciples; I have seen the Lord, and these things he said to me.

19 *Now when it was late that same day, the first of the week, and the doors were shut, where the disciples were gathered together for fear of the Jews: Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them; Peace be to you.

20 And when he had said this, he shewed them his hands, and his side. The disciples, therefore, were glad, when they saw the Lord.

21 He said therefore to them again; Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you.

22 When he had said this, he breathed on them, and he said to them: Receive ye the Holy Ghost:

23 *Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them: and whose you shall retain, they are retained.

Vs 22 : Ver. 22. Receive ye the Holy Ghost. It was said, (John vii. 39.) that the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not glorified. The sense must needs be, that the holy Spirit was not given in that solemn manner, nor with so large an effusion of spiritual gifts and graces, till the day of Pentecost, after Christ's ascension: but the just, at all times, from the beginning of the world, were sanctified by the grace of the Holy Ghost, as no doubt the apostles were, before this time. Now at this present, he gave them the power of forgiving sins. (Witham) --- Some say, that our Saviour did not then confer the Holy Ghost on his disciples, but only prepared them for the receiving of the Holy Ghost. But surely we may understand, that even then they received some portion of spiritual grace, the power, not indeed of raising the dead, and working other miracles, but of forgiving sins. (St. Chrysostom, hom. lxxxv. in Joan.) --- St. Cyril of Alexandria, speaking of the remission of sins, promised in this text, asks, "How then, or why, did Christ impart to his disciples a power, which belongs to the divinity alone? It seemed good to him, that they, who had within themselves his divine Spirit, should likewise possess the power of forgiving sins, and of retaining such as they judged expedient; that Holy Spirit, according to his good pleasure, forgiving and retaining, through the ministry of men." (In Joan. lib. xii. chap. 1.)

Notice by this passage that Jesus created a Hierarchy - In Holy Orders Priests have that same power today - to bind or loose Sins - and it is by the Power of the Holy Spirit that they have it

pax

[Joe 5859]

Originally Posted by clem456

Wow thanks for the link to the JP2 addresses! I didnt realize this was available. It's on my birthday list.

Yeah, the Popes have dones some great catechetical series. They're mostly all online, but they're in several different places, which is what motivated me to bring them all together in my blog.

That book on the Holy Spirit is (sadly) out of print, as are many of John Paul II's other series. Some people try to price gouge in a lot of the online book stores, but if you're patient, you can usually find a used copy in good shape for a reasonable price. It's easier for the title on the Spirit than it is for the title on Jesus (which is in higher demand apparently).

[clem456]

I see the Holy Spirit book for about $8 on a large internet bookseller

[po18guy]

Deuteronomy 30:6
Luke 1:35
John 7:39
John 14:23
John 14:16-17
John 15
1 Corinthians 3:16
1 Corinthians 10:16
Ephesians 3:17
Galatians 2:20

There are probably many others.

[Lethe]

Thank you all already, these are great