As Erickson Millard J. Erickson is a theologian and professor, who was born in the United States on June 24, 1932, and died at the age of 87. Millard J. According to Erikson, the disciples were resurrected before they could be understood and received. Because the Holy Spirit is the person who "receives revelation and fears God" they believe that they were first regenerated in the New Testament system and then they are not the Holy Spirit.