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--color-end: var(--bgcolor-content-end);" ><div class="content"> <div class="sponsor-sidebar"><div class="desktop-show" align="center"><div class="adManager-placeholder"></div></div></div> <h1><span itemprop="name headline" property="og:title">Questions about the Holy Spirit (All)</span></h1> <strong><br> <a href="who-Holy-Spirit.html">Who / what is the Holy Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="is-the-Holy-Spirit-God.html">Is the Holy Spirit God?</a><br><br> <a href="Holy-Spirit-person.html">Is the Holy Spirit a person?</a><br><br> <a href="God-the-Holy-Spirit.html">Who is God the Holy Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="blasphemy-Holy-Spirit.html">What is the blasphemy of the Holy Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="Pneumatology.html">What is Pneumatology?</a><br><br> <a href="receive-Holy-Spirit.html">When / How do we receive the Holy Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="what-does-the-Holy-Spirit-do.html">What does the Holy Spirit do?</a><br><br> <a href="miraculous-gifts.html">Are the miraculous gifts of the Spirit for today?</a><br><br> <a href="gift-of-tongues.html">What is the gift of speaking in tongues? Is it for today?</a><br><br> <a href="spiritual-gift.html">How do I identify my spiritual gift?</a><br><br> <a href="spiritual-gifts.html">How does God distribute spiritual gifts? Will God give me the gift I ask for?</a><br><br> <a href="Spirit-walk.html">What does it mean to walk in the Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="Spirit-slain.html">Is being slain in the Spirit biblical?</a><br><br> <a href="Spirit-baptism.html">What is the baptism of the Holy Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="Spirit-today.html">What is the role of the Holy Spirit in our lives today?</a><br><br> <a href="Spirit-filled.html">How can I be filled with the Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="difference-talent-spiritual-gift.html">What is the difference between a talent and a spiritual gift?</a><br><br> <a href="grieve-Holy-Spirit.html">What does it mean to grieve the Holy Spirit (Ephesians 4:30)?</a><br><br> <a href="tongues-Holy-Spirit.html">Is speaking in tongues evidence for having the Holy Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="fruit-of-the-Holy-Spirit.html">What is the fruit of the Holy Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="feel-Holy-Spirit.html">Is a believer supposed to be able to feel the Holy Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="praying-Spirit.html">What is praying in the Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="Holy-Spirit-leave.html">Will the Holy Spirit ever leave a believer?</a><br><br> <a href="filioque-clause-controversy.html">What is the filioque clause / filioque controversy?</a><br><br> <a href="cessationism.html">Is cessationism biblical?</a><br><br> <a href="continuationism.html">What is continuationism? What is a continuationist?</a><br><br> <a href="Holy-Spirit-Ghost.html">What is the difference between the Holy Spirit and Holy Ghost?</a><br><br> <a href="paraclete-Holy-Spirit.html">What does it mean that the Holy Spirit is our Paraclete?</a><br><br> <a href="latter-rain-movement.html">What is the Latter Rain Movement?</a><br><br> <a href="praying-in-tongues.html">What is praying in tongues? Is praying in tongues a prayer language between a believer and God?</a><br><br> <a href="Holy-Spirit-gender.html">Is the Holy Spirit a "He," "She," or "It,"聺 male, female, or neuter?</a><br><br> <a href="Holy-Spirit-dove.html">Why is the dove often used as a symbol for the Holy Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="names-Holy-Spirit.html">What are the names and titles of the Holy Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="Spirit-Old-Testament.html">What was the role of the Holy Spirit in the Old Testament?</a><br><br> <a href="spiritual-gifts-survey.html">Spiritual gifts survey - what are the different spiritual gifts the Bible mentions?</a><br><br> <a href="Holy-Spirit-fire.html">How is the Holy Spirit like a fire?</a><br><br> <a href="spiritual-gifts-list.html">Is there a biblical spiritual gifts list?</a><br><br> <a href="Charismatic-movement.html">What is the Charismatic movement?</a><br><br> <a href="spiritual-gifts-test.html">Is there any value to a spiritual gifts test/inventory/assessment?</a><br><br> <a href="worship-Holy-Spirit.html">Should we worship the Holy Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="glossolalia.html">What is glossolalia?</a><br><br> <a href="Holy-Spirit-seal.html">What is the seal of the Holy Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="word-wisdom-knowledge.html">What are the spiritual gifts of the "word of wisdom"聺 and the "word of knowledge"聺?</a><br><br> <a href="sign-gifts.html">What was the purpose of the biblical sign gifts?</a><br><br> <a href="gift-of-helps.html">What is the spiritual gift of helps?</a><br><br> <a href="gift-of-teaching.html">What is the spiritual gift of teaching?</a><br><br> <a href="gift-of-encouragement.html">What is the gift of encouragement?</a><br><br> <a href="gift-interpreting-tongues.html">What is the spiritual gift of interpreting tongues?</a><br><br> <a href="gift-of-leadership.html">What is the spiritual gift of leadership?</a><br><br> <a href="gift-of-administration.html">What is the spiritual gift of administration?</a><br><br> <a href="gift-of-mercy.html">What is the spiritual gift of mercy?</a><br><br> <a href="gift-of-faith.html">What is the spiritual gift of faith?</a><br><br> <a href="gift-of-healing.html">What is the spiritual gift of healing?</a><br><br> <a href="gift-of-prophecy.html">What is the spiritual gift of prophecy?</a><br><br> <a href="gift-discerning-spirits.html">What is the spiritual gift of discerning spirits?</a><br><br> <a href="gift-of-miracles.html">What is the spiritual gift of miracles?</a><br><br> <a href="gift-of-giving-generosity.html">Is there a spiritual gift of giving / generosity?</a><br><br> <a href="guidance-Holy-Spirit.html">How can I recognize the guidance of the Holy Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="power-Holy-Spirit.html">What is the power of the Holy Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="Jesus-tongues.html">Did Jesus speak in tongues?</a><br><br> <a href="Holy-Spirit-tribulation.html">Will the Holy Spirit be present during the tribulation?</a><br><br> <a href="indwelling-of-the-Holy-Spirit.html">What is the indwelling of the Holy Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="meaning-ruach.html">What is the meaning of the Hebrew word <i>ruach</i>?</a><br><br> <a href="manifest-presence.html">What is the difference between the manifest presence of the Holy Spirit and God鈥檚 omnipresence?</a><br><br> <a href="eternal-procession.html">What is the eternal procession of the Holy Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="Pneumatomachian-Macedonianism.html">What was the Pneumatomachian heresy / Macedonianism?</a><br><br> <a href="outpouring-of-the-Holy-Spirit.html">What is the outpouring of the Holy Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="symbols-of-the-Holy-Spirit.html">What are some of the symbols of the Holy Spirit in the Bible?</a><br><br> <a href="where-Holy-Spirit.html">Where is the Holy Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="lose-the-Holy-Spirit.html">Can you lose the Holy Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="have-the-Holy-Spirit.html">How do you know if you have the Holy Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="who-is-the-Comforter.html">Who is the Comforter?</a><br><br> <a href="speak-in-tongues-saved.html">Do you have to speak in tongues to be saved?</a><br><br> <a href="yield-to-the-Spirit.html">What does it mean to yield to the Spirit?</a><br><br> <a href="purpose-of-spiritual-gifts.html">What is the purpose of spiritual gifts?</a><br><br> <a href="third-Person-of-the-Trinity.html">What does it mean that the Holy Spirit is the third person of the Trinity?</a><br><br> <a href="Spirit-of-truth.html">Who is the Spirit of truth in John 14:17?</a><br><br> <a href="Holy-Spirit-in-creation.html">What was the role of the Holy Spirit in creation?</a><br><br> </strong> <center><strong class="return">Go to:<br><br> <a class="button-link box-shadow" href="content_Holy-Spirit.html">Questions about the Holy Spirit — Theme Index</a><br><br> Return to:<br><br> <a class="button-link box-shadow" href="archive.html">Frequently Asked Bible Questions</a><br><br> Questions about the Holy Spirit 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