Importance of Holy Spirit, Evolution and Soteriology in Christian Theology

Running head: THEOLOGY AND RELIGIOUS STUDIES
Theology and Religious Studies
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Section A
3. Give an account as to why the Holy Spirit is essential to the life of the Christian believer.
The question that will be focused on in this paper is the fact of the importance of the Holy
Spirit of the Christian Theology. The Christian believers must be sure of the fact that the Holy
Spirit always tells the words of Jesus Christ to them. The Holy Spirit is the person who leads the
human beings to know about the omnipotence of God.1 One has to know the power of the Holy
Spirit to know about God more. The human beings will have to know about the messages of God
by the time He is led by God. The God’s commands will have to be obeyed by the human beings
through the Spirit.
It has to be understood that the person who has drunk the Spirit must be aware that he
will be controlled and consumed by the Spirit itself. The Spirit guides the human beings to the
success in their personal lives. It is the perpetual duty of the human beings to pray to the Holy
Spirit to lead and guide in a continuous manner. The Holy Spirit helps the human beings to live
in a holy manner and salvage the sins. The Holy Spirit has many roles to play in the lives of the
human beings.2 It can be advised that as the Christians, the human beings should let the Holy
Spirit take over the control over the different areas of the lives. The Bible reveals that the Holy
Spirit always comforts the human beings when they are suffering from any depression or
anything like that. The Holy Spirit helps the human beings to do all the things that the God wants
them to do or achieve.3
The Spirit always brings the peace in the minds of the followers of God. Jesus himself
has said that he will not leave the human beings as the orphans. In order to do that, he has said of
1 Jele Samuel Manganyi, Church And Society, 2012.
2 William Angor Anderson, The Gospel Of Luke (Liguori, Mo.: Liguori Publications, 2012).
3 Trinitarian Theology After Barth (Cambridge: James Clarke, 2012).

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the Holy Spirit who will guide us in a continuous manner.4 Jesus Christ has said that the Holy
Spirit always helps the human beings in many ways like it reminds all the things about God that
they have learned. When the human beings have the proper faith on God, they will surely be led
to the salvation. God wants the human beings to remain in peace and this is the reason He has
made some ways by which they can be able to attain that peaceful position. God also wants the
human beings to remove the negative things that do not please them. In order to do so, the Holy
Spirit comes to the aid of the human beings in all the ways.
The Holy Spirit takes care of all the things in the lives of the human beings leads them to
complete the works as they had left them. When the common people are in distress, the Holy
Spirit calms them down and fills in them a kind of peaceful feeling by which they can attain
Another important role of the Holy Spirit is the fact that the human beings should always be
aware of the sins they have committed. If they do not realize their sins they would not be able to
salvage them. The Holy Spirit always makes them aware about their sins in the best ways. When
the human beings will be aware of the sins in their lives they will get back their conscience and
work accordingly. Thus they will get rid of all the previous sins committed in their early lives.
Some Christian followers have also said that they do not have any idea about how to pray to
God.5
The Holy Spirit will surely come to help those human beings in those situations. The
Holy Spirit will then work to make the people aware about their sins and how they could stop
committing them. The Holy Spirit makes the needful things to do the prayers for the human
4 Trinitarian Theology After Barth (Cambridge: James Clarke, 2012).
5 William Angor Anderson, The Gospel Of Luke (Liguori, Mo.: Liguori Publications, 2012).

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beings. This becomes very effective indeed.6 However, one thing has toi be remembered. The
thing is the Holy Spirit surely will not be able to do all the things for the human beings. Rather,
the followers should read the Bible on a regular basis. The followers must be able to get the
advice from the Holy Spirit on how to live their lives and learn the basic truths of life. The Holy
Spirit will always stop the followers to go against the Scripture.7
Section B
1. Is evolution compatible with the doctrine of creation? Justify your answer.
Evolution is the biggest truth of the history of the human beings. The relationship
between the evolution and Christianity is very close indeed. It has been found that the book by
Charles Darwin named On the Origin of Species was from the Angelican priest indeed. This
quotation seemed to be very positive to the writer of the book Darwin. The Priest who is being
talked about in this section is the Rev. Charles Kingsley. The evolution of the animals can be
taken as the primary forms of the self-development.8 The theory of evolution depicted in the
book On the Origin of Species has been a very important thing for the understanding the
development of the creatures in this world.9 The Christian believers were so happy that the
theory of evolution had been inserted within the Biblical understanding.
However, many protests came in opposing this new theory of evolution by Darwin. It is a
part and parcel of every new theory when it is invented. Later it was clear that the priests of the
churches were so happy and satisfied with whatever was told in this theory. It is a myth of the
church that the theory of evolution was being greeted with horror by the church. Many Christian
6 Panteleimon, Eternal Mysteries Beyond The Grave (Chicago: Holy Trinity Publications, 2012).
7 Thomas L. Thompson, "Politics And The Bible", Holy Land Studies 13, no. 2 (2014): 223-227.
8 Simon Oliver and Karen Kilby, Faithful Reading (London: Continuum International Pub., 2012).
9 J. B Stump and Alan G Padgett, The Blackwell Companion To Science And Christianity (Malden, MA:
Blackwell Pub., 2012).