What Does It Mean to Be Holy? The Bible’s answer To be holy refers to a state of being set apart from defilement. The Hebrew word translated “holy” comes from a term meaning “separate.” Thus, what is holy is separated from common use, or held sacred, especially by virtue of its being clean and pure. God is holy to the supreme degree.
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ILLUSTRATED BIBLE STORIES Holy Spirit Empowers Samson What made Samson one of the strongest men of all time? Read the illustrated story online or from a printed PDF.
The Holy Spirit—God’s Active Force ACCORDING to the Trinity doctrine, the holy spirit is the third person of a Godhead, equal to the Father and to the Son. As the book Our Orthodox Christian Faith says: “The Holy Spirit is totally God.” In the Hebrew Scriptures, the word most frequently used for “spirit” is ruʹach, meaning “breath; wind; spirit.” In the Greek Scriptures, the ...
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The New York Times: At Christianity’s Holiest Site, Rival Monks Struggle to Turn Other Cheek
At the Church of the Holy Sepulcher in Jerusalem, on the site where Jesus is believed to have been crucified and resurrected, a centuries-long real estate spat tends to flare up at Orthodox Easter. By ...