What are the names of the four historical groups whose theology developed away from correct biblical pneumatology as discussed in class?
- Puritans
- Wesleyans
- Holiness Pentecostals
- Modern Pentecostals
What did group 1 believe the “second work” of the Spirit was supposedly after conversion and what instinctive did that include for each?
- Puritans
2nd work:
Assurance of salvation
What did group 2 believe the “second work” of the Spirit was supposedly after conversion and what instinctive did that include for each?
- Wesleyans
2nd work:
Sanctification; totally irradiated the sin nature
What did group 3 believe the “second work” of the Spirit was supposedly after conversion and what instinctive did that include for each?
- Holiness Pentecostals
2nd work:
Sanctified but evidenced by tongues
What did group 4 believe the “second work” of the Spirit was supposedly after conversion and what instinctive did that include for each?
- Modern Pentecostals
2nd work:
Empowerment for ministry
How did the second group know they had received the so called “second work” of the Spirit and what did it supposedly eliminate?
An arbitrary feeling that showed you had eradicated the sinful nature.
What was the different evidence for the third group as opposed to the second regarding evidence of the Spirit’s so called “second work”?
It was no longer an arbitrary feeling but was evidenced by tongues.
What did the fourth developing group stop practicing leaving the third group and how did that affect their pneumatology?
- They left holiness
2. They no longer saw sanctification as the second work so they said it was empowerment for ministry
What does James Dunn mean by “conversion-initiation”?
Salvation or entrance into the Kingdom of God (Born Again)
What is the OT paradigm of salvation?
- Invoking/Calling the name of the Lord over people
2. The presence of the Lord was encountered
What is the paradigm of NT salvation?
- Invoked/Calling the name of Jesus over people
2. They were filled with the spirit
What is the point of showing other places in Scripture than Acts to establish our doctrine of
pneumatology?
Because taken together with the acts they represent a unified Apostolic confession
How does Jn. 3:3-8 inform soteriology and pneumatology?
Both water and spirit baptism are essential to be born again and to enter the Kingdom of God
What is Jn. 3:5 a repetition and expansion of?
John 3:3
What does Jesus show about the two components regarding water and spirit baptism in Jn. 3:5?
Jesus cemented them into a singular necessary experience
What does the Greek in Jn. 3:5 clearly show (even according to Belleville)?
Water and spirit are governed by a single preposition “of” and conjoined by “and” indicating that the phrase is to be viewed as a conceptual unity, ‘water-spirit’, which is the origin of man’s second birth
How does 1 Cor. 6:11 inform soteriology and pneumatology?
“And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.”
The text is not about baptism alone. Conjoined to the phrase “in the name of Jesus” IS “and by the Spirit of our God.”
How does 1 Cor. 12:13 inform soteriology and pneumatology?
“For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; & have been all made to drink into one Spirit.”
It is a clear allusion to both being dunked in water (baptism) while drinking in the Spirit (Spirit baptism).
How does Titus 3:5-6 inform soteriology and pneumatology?
“Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;”
Refers to baptism and infilling/renewing of the Spirit
How does the language of Titus 3:5-6 echo the outpouring of the Spirit in Acts 2:33?
“Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.”
Jesus the man is the means by which Acts 2:3 occured
What are the three big commonalities of Acts 8, 10, 19 with what happened in Acts 2?
- They demonstrate baptism and reception of the Spirit were both a part of entrance into covenant
- While people may receive the Spirit when baptized, they might not, but reception of the Spirit is both expected and necessary
- When the Spirit was given it was accompanied by the sudden and miraculous expression of speaking in tongues
What is the importance of the “Law of 1st Mention” regarding Acts 2 and every other passage in Acts?
Sets the definition of every other experience that follows
Must an author repeat him or herself again an again in the same writing? Explain.
No. Allusions are brief summaries that must always be tied to the first that follows
What two false claims does Acts 8 refute regarding Spirit baptism?
- “Baptism in the Spirit” is after conversion
2. Say, converts at Samaria were only waiting to be empowered
