• Starting today August 7th, 2024, in order to post in the Married Couples, Courting Couples, or Singles forums, you will not be allowed to post if you have your Marital status designated as private. Announcements will be made in the respective forums as well but please note that if yours is currently listed as Private, you will need to submit a ticket in the Support Area to have yours changed.

  • CF has always been a site that welcomes people from different backgrounds and beliefs to participate in discussion and even debate. That is the nature of its ministry. In view of recent events emotions are running very high. We need to remind people of some basic principles in debating on this site. We need to be civil when we express differences in opinion. No personal attacks. Avoid you, your statements. Don't characterize an entire political party with comparisons to Fascism or Communism or other extreme movements that committed atrocities. CF is not the place for broad brush or blanket statements about groups and political parties. Put the broad brushes and blankets away when you come to CF, better yet, put them in the incinerator. Debate had no place for them. We need to remember that people that commit acts of violence represent themselves or a small extreme faction.

The Paraclete-Spirit gives Zoe-Life

tonychanyt

24/7 Christian
Oct 2, 2011
6,061
2,239
Toronto
Visit site
✟196,430.00
Country
Canada
Gender
Male
Faith
Christian
Marital Status
Married
The word 'life' appeared in ESV Jn 6 13 times. Jesus declared that he was the bread of life.

Jn 6:

60 When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” 61 But Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this? 62 Then what if you were to see the Son of Man ascending to where he was before?
Some months later, just before he was arrested, he promised to send the Paraclete/Spirit after his death.

63 It is the Spirit who gives life;
The Paraclete-Sprit gives Zoe-Life.

Strong's Greek: 2222. ζωή (zóé) — 135 Occurrences

BDAG:
① life in the physical sense, life
② transcendent life, life

the flesh is no help at all. The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life.
This life dwells in our human spirit.

Paul elaborated in Ro 8:

10 But if Christ is in you, although the body is dead because of sin, the Spirit is life because of righteousness. 11 If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.
The indwelling Spirit, the Paraclete, gives us life in our human spirit. The Paraclete gives life and is life himself.

See also

 
  • Like
Reactions: Pioneer3mm