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The Spirit"...your spirit has emerged from Me" Third Testament (The Book of the True Life 359:68) You have probably heard some people stating that the spirit is some sort of energy, thus materializing and downgrading the concept. But spirit relates more to essence than to substance. The word "spirit", as we have it in English, comes from the Latin word "spiritus" meaning breath, blowing of wind. And the Latin word was translated from the Hebrew Old Scriptures word "ruach' or "rowah" (roo'akh), and has a feminine form. Also, in the Greek New Scriptures, the word for it is "pneuma" (pa-nyew'-mah). In both cases the words literally mean "air in motion" which is, in fact, a metaphor. Jesus said to the Samaritan woman: "God [is] a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship [him] in spirit and in truth" (John 4:24) If you analyze the above paragraph, you will see that, for starters, Jesus is describing the nature of God. If He, for example, was to describe a person (e.g. Phillipe) he would had said "He is a Jew", denoting with that not just a form or shape but the true origin or nature of the one He was describing. You will find also some modern scholars or theologians that try to diminish the essential meaning of the word "spirit" to make it pass as a material power or force; but then, how would they explain not only what the Lord said to the Samaritan woman (and all humankind, I might add) but the following verses? In Hebrews 4:12 Paul separate the notion of soul from the concept of spirit:
"For the word of God [is] quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul (psuche or psso-khay') and spirit (pneuma or pnyoo'-mah)..."
This very same concept appears again in 1 Thessalonians 5:23...
"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and [I pray God] your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." Please take note that in this verse, Paul adds another element, the body, distinguishing it from spirit and soul... So, we can see that spirit and soul are not the same. The spirit is the figure for essence, and soul is the figure for substance. When God, the Father, created man and woman, He made us as His similarity or resemblance: "So God created man (male and female) in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him..." (Genesis 1:27) We must remember here that if God is Spirit -as Jesus revealed- then the liking, the similarity of us with God must be because we are spirit too. Spirit, not soul ( please read http://144000.net/soul.htm )... Of course, all this pertains to when we were created to live as humans in Earth... but, our creation as spirits was even before than this. "According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love." Ephesians 1:4 "Before the foundation of the world"... this simple words are the ones that stand in front of all those theologians that reject the notion of the pre-existence of our spirit before the creation of this world. So, what exactly is our spirit? ....(shall continue)
All quotes taken from The Third Testament
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