Soar Like and Eagle
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That is how I feel about the Spirit. I see man's spirit being created for when God created man in His image and likeness which is spirit man became a spirit a son of God. Later who knows how long God formed man from the dust of the earth and made him a living soul. I see the soul and the dust realm as one for they were both formed and God gave them a life of their own by breathing on them. Today carnal man is not a complete package for the spirit is dead in trustpasses and sins. When We receive the Holy Spirit as they did on the day of Pentecost our spirit begins to grow and mature spiritually so we can hear what God is truly saying. That is why there is a letter that killeth and a spirit that quicken or makes alive.So you disagree then. That is that. It tells me you are not about to budge on it. And it is a fact of life that if a person believes staunchly that blue is green hundreds who tell the blue is blue will have no effect.
I will look you post over when I get time. But I am also going to take my time.
I can tell you right away that you do think somewhat as I do about the flesh not meaning the physical body. It is actually a sort of spirit itself being spoken about. I prefer not to call it soulical, for soul encompasses far more that just what that word "flesh" as in "carnal flesh or mind" refers to.
Souls does include the meat body. It includes every detail of a man. It is a word describing the complete package. And that complete package is what God protects for a righteous man that we not not destroy the unity of the soul temporarily.
2 Corinthians 3:6
Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
So many of God’s people cannot see what is beyond the letter that killeth; such a strong word “killeth” given to describe what happens when you use you carnalize, literalize your understanding when interpreting scripture. So much doom and gloom in Traditional Christianity; verse that support the doctrine of eternal torment.
This is what has happened with these two subjects verses on the baby goat and the spirits in prison. There are two Word of God at work here: one that relies on tradition, man’s logic and scholarly approach. The other Word of God that is led by the Spirit of God that is quicken not by the dead letter that killeth but by what the Spirit of God has quicken.
Are we destroying, slaying, and killing God’s Word when we refuse to allow God’s Spirit to give it life. Is not the spirit of truth with in us; but is that what we are following when all we see is the negative. God’s Spirit is in all of us, we have gone way to accustom to hearing man; and not The Spirit of truth with in.
Killeth: NT:615 apokteino (ap-ok-ti'-no); from NT:575 and kteino (to slay); to kill outright; figuratively, to destroy:
2 Corinthians 3:1Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you? 2Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:
3Forasmuch as ye are manifestly declared to be the epistle of Christ ministered by us, written not with ink, but with the Spirit of the living God; not in tables of stone, but in fleshy tables of the heart. 4And such trust have we through Christ to God-ward: 5Not that we are sufficient of ourselves to think any thing as of ourselves; but our sufficiency is of God;
6Who also hath made us able ministers of the new testament; not of the letter, but of the spirit: for the letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life.
7But if the ministration of death, written and engraven in stones, was glorious, so that the children of Israel could not stedfastly behold the face of Moses for the glory of his countenance; which glory was to be done away:
8How shall not the ministration of the spirit be rather glorious?
9For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory
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