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Originally Posted by aron
Each person has an angel, it seems (see "their angels always watch the face of My Father in heaven" and "They said, 'it is Peter's angel'"). And angels are spirits. So maybe your spirit is an angel.
The Great Spirit witnesses with your angel that you are children of God (Romans 8:16)
Now, it doesn't say that, does it? But it also doesn't say that the spirit is an organ. So my 'leap of logic' has as much ground, scripturally, as Nee's did. The only thing that I can see supporting Nee's "organ" idea is that he was the Minister of the Age and was God's Oracle. So we mistakenly took it at face value.
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Honestly, does supposing that your spirit is an angel really help you understand what the term means? What, after all, do we know of angel?. The Bible contains stories about them showing that they are messengers of God. They are depicted in illustrations as idealized statuesque humans with wings. Where are we now, in terms of understanding? How does this relate to our experience of ourselves? Haven't we complicated and mythologized the problem? What does this have to do with the real world? Wouldn't we be better off deciphering what the mythical symbols mean,seeing if they have any relevance to the phenomenal world we live in, and, if not, discarding them except as bedtime stories for the children?