Orthodox Teaching about God from an Ecclesiologic Point of View
Orthodox Teaching about God from an Ecclesiologic Point of View

Summary/Abstract: Undoubtedly, the Holy Spirit comes from the Father through the act of origination, an eternal act which only points out the Spirit’s different way of existence in the Trinitarian life. By the fact that the Father is the origin of the two persons emerging from Him, the Son and the Holy Spirit, He is the spring who defines the relationship between the Holy Spirit and the Godhead. Based on this consubstantiality, the Holy Spirit experiences in His personal consciousness the very revelation of the Father himself as reality of His own divine life. The fact that the Spirit belongs to the only supreme being, to the only God, this unquestionably differentiates him from all creatures. This is highlighted by the Sacred Scripture, which calls the Holy Spirit as “Life Giver Lord” i.e., true God. The Savior Christ Himself confesses that the Holy Spirit originates only in the Father and He is sent into the world by the Father through the Son. He only reveals where the Son is known, His free presence and action in the name of the Son, all over and everlasting, gives birth to communion. This work of the Holy Spirit results in Christ the Savior perfectly uniting with His believers in the life of the mystical body of the Lord, which is nothing else but the everlasting act of Pentecost. Therefore, the Holy Spirit subsists hypostatically in the Father, and illuminates hypostatically the Son and He is always indivisibly present and unite with them in the Trinitarian life and divine economy for men’s salvation and cosmos transfiguration. He experiences Father and Son’s personal significance from a different approach, without losing Himself in a tri-one Self, thus forming together the only personal God.

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