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Can Spirit....Consume?
- Thread starter Thief
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Consume what? Spirits?
Thief
Rogue Theologian
anything....anyhow....
most people like to think the after life is eternal
fueled.....by what?
or maybe no fuel is required?
energy cannot be destroyed
but it CAN be converted
contained
transformed
I don't view my existence as life/afterlife. I, mySelf, existed before I was born into this perceived reality and will continue on after this body and mind expire. I view this temporal reality as illusory, and my body is just a vehicle of the experience.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
yes..but...
in this life you must learn to consume
shall we..."share the wine".....in the next
Again, consume what?
WalterTrull
Godfella
I'm all for consummation.
Thief
Rogue Theologian
and did someone promise you a stable of virgins?
WalterTrull
Godfella
Ya know… I don't think someone really thought that through. Can you imagine that many young ladies as a group sniping about who gets what, seniority, the drapes? Time for a really looong vacation.
Earthling
David Henson
Eventually spirit will consume everything, even itself, in one single gastric expulsion from the center of the now into the elevator of the passed.
. . . and then the great departure . . .
WalterTrull
Godfella
Sometimes I don't know if you're joking.
WalterTrull
Godfella
That's probably it. Although a discussion about energy is likely in order.
Axe Elf
Prophet
Spirit does not need to consume; spirit is energy from God. Spirit is the force that makes inanimate matter animate; the life that was breathed into Adam (Genesis 2:7) to make him a living being, and which will return to God upon death, just as our body returns to dust (Ecclesiastes 12:7).
Earthling
David Henson
Sometimes I don't know if you're joking.
Is it sometimes you don't know if I'm joking when I am or I am not? Or both?
This particular episode was a parody of hippie spirituality. You see, the Biblical terms, that is, Hebrew and Greek, for spirit, basically mean any invisible active force. Something that we can't see but that produces results that we can see. This sounds like "supernatural," "religious," "superstitious," nonsense, and it most certainly can be. Just a lot of hot air. Because the Hebrew and Greek words for spirit can be translated as "wind" and "breath" or "breeze."
So, in terms of religiosity, something that has a practical origin can become just so much "spiritual" nonsense. Oprah Winfrey's Life Class.
In this humorous instance . . . flatulence in an elevator described as some mystical expectation.
WalterTrull
Godfella
Earthling
David Henson
That's absolutely true, but spirit is also mental inclination, wind, and spirit creatures like Satan. Habakkuk 2:19 / Revelation 13:15 / Exodus 10:13 / 1 Kings 21:5 / 1 Kings 22:21 / Matthew 8:16
Earthling
David Henson
Didn't really help much, did it? They say if you have to explain it it ain't funny, but that just takes all of the fun out of it for me.
Axe Elf
Prophet
Now you're getting more into the soul, or mind--that which gives a living being an individual persona that can survive the absence of a body. Spirit is just an impersonal force of life, the animating power from God.
Angels and demons have souls and spirits; animals have bodies and spirits, but we are the only critters created in God's triune image, with a mind/soul (Father), body (Son) and spirit.