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The Greek and Hebrew words mean wind or breath. The English word spirit is a figurative useage of these Greek and Hebrew words. The English word spirit has as a definition a disembodied living being. The Greek and Hebrew words have "NO" such meaning. There is absolutely nothing is the words neshamah, ruach, pneuma, noe, that mean a disembodied living being. Since these words are sometimes translated as spirit and spirit is a figurative usage of these words one needs to determine what the figure of speech is. The Scriptures tell us that God is Spirit. That's a figure of speech. What does the figure mean? Jesus explained it in John 3.
8 The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. (Jn. 3:8 KJV)
In this passage, both wind and Spirit are the same Greek word pneuma. The tranlsators have used two different English words to translate the same Greek word. This is why people get confused.
So, how is God wind? Jesus said the wind blows where it wills and you hear it but you can't tell where it comes from or where it goes. It's the same with God, He come and goes and no one can see Him. You see the effects of Him just as you can see the effects of the wind as it blows the trees.
The problem and confusion comes when people see the word spirit and import the idea of a disembodied living being onto the text. The Greek and Hebrew words have no such meaning. It's easy to see people doing this because people speak of the spirit living on. However, it's literally the word wind or breath.
How does any of that address what i posted:
How is a breath to be "kept blameless" (1 Thess.5:23)?
Are we to walk by the breath to not fulfill the lusts of the flesh, or walk by the Spirit?
Are we to be filled with the breath, or filled with the Spirit?
Is an angel a breath, or is an angel a spirit?
Is he who is joined to the Lord one breath? Or one spirit (1 Cor.6:7)?
Why would Paul say the Lord is with our breath, rather than spirit (2 Tim.4:22)?
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