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Originally Posted by zeek
It's impossible to understand the meaning of Spirit unless the meaning of spirit is understood, for Spirit is the symbolic application of spirit to the divine life.
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This may be a very true statement. I cannot say for sure.
But while I see it as likely fundamental to the understanding of 1 Cor 2:10, I also see it as almost pointless in the understanding of 1 Cor 15:45 because "Spirit" is not part of the discussion there, and "spirit" is not used with the same definition in mind.
When you discuss Spirit/spirit as something important to be understood and say it so succinctly in a single sentence, then you would tend to be working on a particular definition or understanding of spirit to the exclusion of others that are not relevant to that study. I do not say that such a study/approach is not important within its context. But any word with as diverse a palette of definitions cannot be understood in total in such a way. Especially not with respect to each definition's relationship to "Spirit." Many of them just are not relevant to that study. And it is in those definitions that I believe that 1 Cor 15:45 has gone, therefore I do not find a discussion of the meaning of spirit in 1 Cor 2:10 to be relevant to the meaning in 1 Cor 15:45.
And as fundamentally sound as your single sentence seems to be to the understanding of God and his essence, and how that relates to the Spirit, it is just as useless to a discussion about the "external" description of a "body" that has both solid, physical features and those of what would generally be classified as a ghost. They just are not talking about the same thing.