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Originally Posted by awareness
But now I don't know for sure what your remark about reading bedtime stories to children means at all. Did you mean the whole Bible? That would be scary to.
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I think
zeek meant my reference to angels being spirits. We may talk about the spirit being an organ, and I pointed that there's as much scriptural basis for saying that an the spirit is an angel. Not an organ.
But I led the conversation astray and I apologize. I am a "shoot first, think later" writer and I doubt my interjection was profitable. More like annoying and distracting.
Let me retry: we may say, that the human spirit is a "part of man", and "a vessel to contact God" and an "organ to sense God". So it is a part, a vessel, and an organ. I am saying that it can be seen as LIKE, in some very limited sense, a part/vessel/organ. But we can also say a cat is like a dog. They can be said to share some similarities, and this may be useful for assessment. To a limited degree.
But in the WN/WL school of theology, if they said a cat was a dog, because it was convenient, we were expected to bellow "A cat is a dog!! A cat is a dog!!" over and over until we "saw the revelation". WL would simply say "These 3 verses show us that a human spirit is an organ, etc", and we were expected to "get it".
But we have to be wary of our logic. We can also say, "Mary is the mother of Jesus, (i.e. "the mother of my Lord" [Luke 1:43]), and Jesus is God incarnated, (John 1:4), then Mary is the mother of God. It's clear, right? Logical. You can take any two or three verses and use your logic to "prove" anything you want. I think the "exercise your mingled spirit" notion, (like we are teaching God to jump rope) should be re-evaluated. Like most in the LSM oeuvre, its basis is perhaps not what we thought. Especially when "exercise your mingled spirit" is tantamount to bawling "four legs good, two legs bad!!" over and over. This is just oriental pentacostalism; it's a thinly veiled social control mechanism. Don't think, just shout.