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Brief Credo Paper: The Holy Spirit

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This brief Credo paper will explain how the Holy Spirit is intimately integrated in a supernatural and mystical experience and participation in the sacraments beyond the intellectual understanding of the historical events that the Church remembers when they participate in the sacraments. The Westminster Confession of Faith limits the sacraments to baptism and the Lord's Supper and sacraments are denoted "signs and seals of the covenant of grace.”
The Holy Spirit plays a central role in the sacraments and adds to the intellectual experience of the sacraments. At times in Church history the sacraments have been reduced to mere symbols of remembrance but Calvin points out that when we interact with the sacraments we are in fact participating with the Holy Spirit and Christ.
The Holy Spirit uses the sacraments as a means of grace and thus is essential as we are born again; or born from heaven. The means of grace are those things through which God gives grace and the sacraments (Baptism and the Lord’s Supper) are a way in which God bestows grace on humanity. …show more content…

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