{"id":5912,"date":"2014-02-03T13:57:58","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T18:57:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?p=5912"},"modified":"2022-10-28T19:35:12","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T00:35:12","slug":"podcast-25-pastor-sean-finnegan-about-the-holy-spirit-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-25-pastor-sean-finnegan-about-the-holy-spirit-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"podcast 25 &#8211; Pastor Sean Finnegan on &#8220;the Holy Spirit&#8221; &#8211; Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_4631\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-5912-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities025.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities025.mp3\">http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities025.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities025.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?powerpress_pinw=5912-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/media.blubrry.com\/trinities\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/podcast\/trinities025.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"trinities025.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/7FuUF9DZM3zhtN41n6RJ6l\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/subscribebyemail.com\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_email\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe by Email\" rel=\"nofollow\">Email<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-5913\" src=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-holy-spirit-by-hammermario-1024x692.jpg\" alt=\"the-holy-spirit-by-hammermario\" width=\"389\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-holy-spirit-by-hammermario-1024x692.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-holy-spirit-by-hammermario-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-holy-spirit-by-hammermario-420x284.jpg 420w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-holy-spirit-by-hammermario-460x311.jpg 460w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-holy-spirit-by-hammermario-90x61.jpg 90w, https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/the-holy-spirit-by-hammermario.jpg 1559w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/>In this episode Pastor Sean Finnegan and I discuss <strong>biblical spirit-talk: &#8220;the Holy Spirit,&#8221;<\/strong> &#8220;the Spirit of the LORD,&#8221; &#8220;God&#8217;s spirit,&#8221; &#8220;the Spirit of Christ,&#8221; etc.<\/p>\n<p>Sean helpfully distinguishes <strong>four types of spirit-talk in the Bible<\/strong>, giving many examples from both testaments.<\/p>\n<p>We also discuss traditional catholic arguments for the Holy Spirit being a third divine person in addition to the Father and the Son, <strong>theologically motivated translation problems<\/strong>, and why, in his view, both the catholic and Jehovah&#8217;s Witness readings of spirit-texts are too simple.<\/p>\n<p>In the <strong>next episode<\/strong>, Sean and I continue the conversation, discussing various related matters, including <a title=\"great commission passage\" href=\"http:\/\/www.biblegateway.com\/passage\/?search=Matthew+28%3A18-20&amp;version=NRSV\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Matthew 28<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Links<\/strong> for this episode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sean&#8217;s <a title=\"Christianmonotheism website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmonotheism.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Christian Monotheism<\/a> website.<\/li>\n<li>The <a title=\"Kingdom Ready blog\" href=\"http:\/\/lhim.org\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kingdom Ready blog<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Sean&#8217;s Christian monotheism <a title=\"Christian Monotheism podcast\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmonotheism.com\/php\/podcast\/podcast.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">podcast<\/a>, <a title=\"Truth Matters\" href=\"http:\/\/truthmattersradio.wordpress.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Truth Matters radio program<\/a>, and <a title=\"Sean Finnegan materials at Christian Monotheism\" href=\"http:\/\/www.christianmonotheism.com\/php\/media_center\/media_displayer.php?chosen=speakers&amp;mode=speakers&amp;data=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">other writings and talks<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Living Hope International Ministries\" href=\"http:\/\/lhim.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The church<\/a> where Sean is a pastor.<\/li>\n<li>Sean&#8217;s informative 2013 <a title=\"Sean's presentation at 21st Century Reformation website\" href=\"http:\/\/www.21stcr.org\/multimedia-2013\/sf_holy_spirit_translation_bias_pt1.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">presentation on the Holy Spirit and translation bias<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><em><a title=\"New Jerusalem Study Bible\" href=\"http:\/\/astore.amazon.com\/trinities-20\/detail\/0385142641\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New Jerusalem Study Bible<\/a><\/em>.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Finnegan - Bosserman debate posts\" href=\"http:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/?s=bosserman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My reviews<\/a> of Sean&#8217;s 2008 unitarian-trinitarian debate with Brent Bosserman.<\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Acts 5:32\" href=\"http:\/\/biblehub.com\/acts\/5-32.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acts 5:32<\/a>, cited by Sean towards the end of the interview.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this episode Pastor Sean Finnegan and I discuss biblical spirit-talk: &#8220;the Holy Spirit,&#8221; &#8220;the Spirit of the LORD,&#8221; &#8220;God&#8217;s spirit,&#8221; &#8220;the Spirit of Christ,&#8221; etc. Sean helpfully distinguishes four types of spirit-talk in the Bible, giving many examples from both testaments. We also discuss traditional catholic arguments for the Holy Spirit being a third&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/podcast-25-pastor-sean-finnegan-about-the-holy-spirit-part-1\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">podcast 25 &#8211; Pastor Sean Finnegan on &#8220;the Holy Spirit&#8221; &#8211; Part 1<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5913,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,21,6,55,56,57,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-apologetics","category-bible","category-complaints","category-holy-spirit","category-interview","category-podcast","category-unitarianism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5912"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43985,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5912\/revisions\/43985"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trinities.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}