Who is the Holy Spirit? What are some of the most common misconceptions about the Holy

Spirit and how do we live in the power of the Spirit? Our guest today, Dr. Fred Sanders, is a part of the Tori Honors College here at

Bile University, written a great new accessible and unique book where you get into, simply

called The Holy Spirit and Introduction.

Fred, it's good to have you on the show.

It's good to be here.

Well, I read through your book, and there's so many angles

that we could approach it.

But one of the things that really jumped out to me

are these bizarre depictions of the things that really jumped out to me are these bizarre depictions of the Holy Spirit

in art and literature.

So in some ways to better understand

who the Holy Spirit is, we might unpack what they get right and what they get wrong.

Now one of the most popular ones over the past few years is in the novel which was put into

a film called The Shack, which the Holy Spirit is depicted as a young

Asian woman named Surayu. I hope I said that correctly. What do you make of this depiction?

What did it get right and what did it get wrong?

Yeah, the depiction of the Holy

Spirit in the shack is like so many of these others you can see down through

history. What's wrong about it is it's just it's arbitrary and random and all the details are

invented completely from scratch from the author's imagination. If you think I'm

going to make a movie and I need to cast the Holy Spirit, who do I cast?

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