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Baptism of Jesus, with the Holy Spirit descending on him as a dove in Matthew 3:13–17, [77] Mark 1:9–11 [78] and Luke 3:21–23. [79] Temptation of Jesus, in Matthew 4:1 the Holy Spirit led Jesus to the desert to be tempted. [80] The Spirit casting out demons in Exorcising the blind and mute man miracle. [81]
John knew the Lord to be the Son of God, knew that He would baptize with the Holy Ghost: for before Christ came to the river, many having come together to hear John, he said unto them, He that comes after me is mightier than I: He shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire.
The Holy Spirit is believed to eternally proceed from the Father, as Christ says in John 15:26, and not from the Father and the Son, as the Roman Catholic and Protestant churches claim. The Greek Orthodox Church teaches that the Holy Spirit proceeds through the Son, but only from the Father.
Oneness Pentecostals believe that the baptism of the Holy Spirit is a free gift, commanded for all. [137] Pentecostals—both Oneness and Trinitarian—maintain that the Holy Spirit experience denotes the genuine Christian Church and empowers the believer to accomplish God's will.
Theophilus of Antioch is the earliest Church father documented to have used the word "Trinity" to refer to God.. Debate exists as to whether the earliest Church Fathers in Christian history believed in the doctrine of the Trinity – the Christian doctrine that God the Father, the Son (Jesus Christ) and the Holy Spirit are three distinct persons sharing one homoousion (essence).
Justin Martyr (AD 100 – c. 165) also writes, "in the name of God, the Father and Lord of the universe, and of our Saviour Jesus Christ, and of the Holy Spirit". [74] Justin Martyr is the first to use much of the terminology that would later become widespread in codified Trinitarian theology.
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