What do Presbyterians believe about The Holy Spirit? The Holy
Spirit (3 Views) Reprinted from the September 1985 issue of
Presbyterians Today "God's Presence With and in Us" By Arnold B.
Come There are five main emphases about the Holy Spirit in the
Reformed tradition, as found in Calvin, the Westminster
Confession, Karl Barth, and the Confession of 1967. 1. The Holy
Spirit is God. That is to say, the Holy Spirit is understood
strictly in Trinitarian terms. The Trinity is a doctrinal way of
referring to the three ways God has of being God — all three
simultaneously, and each always in active relation with the
other two. This means that our experience of God as Holy Spirit
always involves also our relation to God as Creator (Father) and
to God as Mediator-Savior (Son). God as Holy Spirit comes into
our lives in and through and with God's creation of Israel and
its history, in and through and with the coming of the Word of
God in the "flesh" of Jesus of Nazareth. No matter how profound
is our sense of the immed