Frank Goad
Well-Known Member
“Soul” and “Spirit”—What Do These Terms Really Mean?
THE “SPIRIT” IDENTIFIED
The soul and the spirit are not the same. The body needs the spirit in much the same way as a radio needs electricity—in order to function. To illustrate this further, think of a portable radio. When you put batteries in a portable radio and turn it on, the electricity stored in the batteries brings the radio to life, so to speak. Without batteries, however, the radio is dead. So is another kind of radio when it is unplugged from an electric outlet. Similarly, the spirit is the force that brings our body to life. Also, like electricity, the spirit has no feeling and cannot think. It is an impersonal force. But without that spirit, or life-force, our bodies “die and return to the dust” as the psalmist stated.
I got this all from here: https://www.jw.org/en/library/books...4-5df03a2b6d72&insight[search_result_index]=0
In 2 Cor. 7:1 it says your spirit can become filthy.How can you spirit become filthy if it is an impersonal force?Because I am a strong believer in Ecclesiastes 9:5.This confuses me.
THE “SPIRIT” IDENTIFIED
The soul and the spirit are not the same. The body needs the spirit in much the same way as a radio needs electricity—in order to function. To illustrate this further, think of a portable radio. When you put batteries in a portable radio and turn it on, the electricity stored in the batteries brings the radio to life, so to speak. Without batteries, however, the radio is dead. So is another kind of radio when it is unplugged from an electric outlet. Similarly, the spirit is the force that brings our body to life. Also, like electricity, the spirit has no feeling and cannot think. It is an impersonal force. But without that spirit, or life-force, our bodies “die and return to the dust” as the psalmist stated.
I got this all from here: https://www.jw.org/en/library/books...4-5df03a2b6d72&insight[search_result_index]=0
In 2 Cor. 7:1 it says your spirit can become filthy.How can you spirit become filthy if it is an impersonal force?Because I am a strong believer in Ecclesiastes 9:5.This confuses me.
