How did the pentecost event change people's lives?

Answer 1

A:Church tradition says that the Church as we know it today began after Pentecost.

Acts chapter 2 says that the disciples received the Holy Spirit, after which they began to baptise many people. They sold all their possessions to help others and began to preach the gospel. This was the Christian Pentecost, but the Jews also celebrated a Pentecost from the second century BCE onwards, and hence in Jesus' day, in memory of the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai. Also known as Shavuot, it takes place fifty days after Passover, just as the Christian Pentecost takes place fifty days after Easter. Numbers 11:25 tells us that on that occasion, the spirit of God came down on the seventy elders and they began to prophesy in ecstasy. There are enough parallels to the earlier account to raise doubts about the historicity of the Christian Pentecost, in which case the Church could not have begun on this auspicious occasion.

The author of Matthew's Gospel knew nothing of Luke's Gospel or Acts of the Apostles, and therefore nothing of Pentecost. Matthew 28:19-20 simply has Jesus meet the disciples at a mountain in Galilee, far away from Jerusalem, and command them to go therefore and teach to all nations, and that he will be with them always. This is an alternative account of the very beginning of the Church.

The author of John's Gospel certainly knew of Luke's Gospel but probably not Acts of the Apostles. John 20:22 has Jesus breathe on the disciples and give them the Holy Spirit, seemingly making Luke's Pentecost superfluous.

With two parallel biblical accounts (Numbers, Acts) of a Pentecost, at least two biblical accounts (Matthew, Acts) of the beginning of the the Church and and two accounts in which the disciples received the Holy Spirit (John, Acts), we should reserve judgement both of the historicity of Pentecost and just when the Church as we know it really began. As Acts of the Apostles is believed to have been written at the end of the first century or very early in the second century, the story of the Pentecost was probably unknown in the first century, but the real effect was the ready acceptance of the story by later Christians and their belief that this event marked the very beginning of the Christian Church.

Answer 2

On the day of Pentecost the Holy Spirit fill the disciples. The Holy Spirit is the third Person of the trinity, God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. One God in three Persons. There is nothing more powerful than God. Thus God the Holy Spirit transformed the disciples lives to do what ever God wanted them to do. He changed their lives forever. And if you accept Jesus Christ as your Savior the Holy Spirit will come and dwell within you and change your life forever. Jesus is coming soon. Are you ready?

Answer 3

A:Acts of the Apostles says that on the day of Pentecost, everyone that was in the upper room was filled with the Holy Spirit coming down on them as tongues of fire. They began to speak in tongues as the spirit gave them the utterance. Christianity celebrates this occasion as the Day of Pentecost ('fifty days') and as the beginning of the Christian Church.

Matthew's Gospel also has a story of the beginning of the Christian Church. It tells simply that Jesus meet the disciples at a mountain in Galilee, far away from Jerusalem, and commanded them to go therefore and teach to all nations, saying that he will be with them always (Matthew 28:19-20). The author of Matthewknew nothing of Acts of the Apostles and therefore nothing of Pentecost, so this suggests that the Pentecost never really took place.

Acts of the Apostles was written anonymously around the end of the first century or very early in the second century, and only attributed to Luke later in the second century. The story of the Christian Pentecost seems likely to have been based on the Jewish Pentecost, celebrated since the second century BCE in commemoration of the giving of the Law on Mount Sinai. It takes place fifty days after Passover, just as the Christian Pentecost takes place fifty days after Easter. Numbers 11:25 tells us that on that occasion, the spirit of God came down on the seventy elders and they began to prophesy in ecstasy, just as the apostles began to speak in tongues in the Christian story. There are enough parallels in the two accounts to suggest that the Christian Pentecost was entirely unknown during the first century and was a literary creation in Acts of the Apostles. However, faith in the inerrancy of the scriptures meant that this important event soon shaped Christian beliefs about the power of the Holy Spirit and of the very beginning of the Christian Church.

Answer 4

Jesus had announced the new covenant to his disciples on the evening of his last Passover and, just before his ascension, had instructed them to wait at Jerusalem for the promised holy spirit. (Luke 22:20; Acts 2:33) The presence of God's spirit was manifested in that some 120 disciples were miraculously speaking in different tongues. By this means, the multitudes of Jews and proselytes from all parts of the Roman Empire could hear with intelligibility "the magnificent things of God." (Acts 2:7-11)

Answer 5

It gave the Apostles and all believers present the strength and courage to spread the message of the Gospel (Salvation through Jesus Christ)

Answer 6

Pentecost led to the baptism of many, it also spread out God's word to parts of Europe, and the Middle East.

Answer 7

His goal is to change our mortal bodies and imperfect minds into spiritually perfect bodies and minds.