A Dogma or Doctrine of the Indwelling Spirit of God in the soul of the human person – That is, a theology of the sanctifying grace of God that makes the just man a Temple of the Holy Spirit.
I've outlined the doctrine below.
If you could direct me to
an equivalent doctrine in the Baha'i teachings, that's all I'm asking for and in the absence of that, can only assume there isn't one – hence my stance on the matter.
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A summation of doctrine from
The Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma
The Holy Spirit dwells in the souls of the just, not merely by means of the created gifts of grace which He dispenses, but in His uncreated Divine nature. Holy Writ guarantees the fact of the personal indwelling of the Holy Spirit –
"Know you not that you are the temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?"
1 Corinthians 3:16
"Or know you not, that your members are the temple of the Holy Spirit (
Hagios Pmeuma), who is in you, whom you have from God; and you are not your own?
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body (
soma), and in your spirit (
pneuma), which are God's."
1 Corinthians 6:19-20
"And what agreement hath the temple of God with idols? for ye are the temple of the living God; as God hath said, I will dwell in them, and walk in
them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people."
2 Corinthians 6:16
"And hope confoundeth not: because the charity of God is poured forth in our hearts, by the Holy Ghost, who is given to us."
Romans 5:5
"And if the spirit of Him that raised up Jesus from the dead, dwell in you; He that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead, shall quicken also your mortal bodies (
thnetos soma), because of His spirit (
pneuma) that dwelleth in you."
Romans 8:11
The personal indwelling of the Holy Spirit does not effect a substantial, but only an accidental unification of the Holy Spirit with the soul of the just. As the indwelling of the Holy Spirit is an operation of God
ad extra, (an 'external work' of God directed towards the world) and as the operations of God
ad extra are common to the Three Persons of the Holy Trinity, so the indwelling of the Holy Spirit inevitably implies the indwelling of the Three Divine Persons.
Holy Scripture speaks of the indwelling of the Father and of the Son:
"If anyone love me, he will keep my word. And my Father will love him; and we will come to him and will make our abode with him."
John 14:23
(
Fundamentals of Catholic Dogma, Dr Ludwig Ott, trans. Patrick Lynch DD, editor James Canon Bastible DD, The Doctrine of Grace, section 20, chapter 2, article 5, p259. Tan Books North Carolina, 1974)