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Originally Posted by awareness

Okay hotshot, I agree with UntoHim. Great post.

Please explain what you mean by: "The writers of the Bible had a clear understanding of what was meant by spirit."

How so? Why would they understand better than we today? Aren't we on the whole more educated than they were, understanding more than they could even dream of?

Are you talking about this sort of understanding? :

Mat_3:16 And Jesus, when he was baptized, went up straightway out of the water: and, lo, the heavens were opened unto him, and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove, and lighting upon him:

Mat_4:1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

Act_2:4 And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

Act_2:17 And it shall come to pass in the last days, saith God, I will pour out of my Spirit upon all flesh: and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, and your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams:

Act_8:29 Then the Spirit said unto Philip, Go near, and join thyself to this chariot.

And other such examples from back then?

Or do you mean the writers of the Bible understood the Spirit because they were animated by the Spirit to write what they wrote?

They lived in a world where spirits, demons, angels, gods and the like were part of the common understanding of how things worked. We live in a world where science, secular society, modernity have marginalized belief in those putative entities.