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Originally Posted by awareness

Sounds like a mishmash god to me. If Senecas' holy spirit wasn't holy or spirit, neither was Witness Lees'.

And after reading the Wiki link you provided, Seneca appears to resemble Watchman Nee ; as his walk failed to live up to his talk.

But he was "Our Seneca," er, ah, "Our Watchman Nee."

I don't think anybody is suggesting that you take Seneca on board as your new MOTA. What is being claimed, as I understand it, is that Seneca had an everyday kind of understanding of spirit. UntoHim's quote is evidence that he did. Stoicism was an alternative to Christianity which could not assimilate the Stoic attitude even though Stoicism influenced of the Stoic doctrines of the Logos and of the natural moral law on both Christian dogmatics and ethics. A critical difference remained between between the acceptance of cosmic resignation in Stoicism and the faith in cosmic salvation in Christianity. Christian Church defeated Stoicism in the Roman era.