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Seems to me we are in effect spiritual bodies now. The spirit is said to leave the body at death. So, until then spirit and body seem somehow joined. The significant difference between the body now and post-resurrection seems to be that the resurrected body is immortal. Consistent with Swinburne's definition of spirit as a person without a body, there is Kierkegaard's thesis in "Sickness Unto Death":
"The human being is spirit. But what is spirit? Spirit is the self. But what is the self? The self is a relation which relates to itself, or that in the relation which is its relating to itself. The self is not the relation but the relation's relating to itself. A human being is a synthesis of the infinite and the finite, of the temporal and the eternal, of freedom and necessity. In short a synthesis. A synthesis is a relation between two terms. Looked at in this way a human being is not yet a self." The spirit is the self. How elegantly simple. My head is going around on this spirit vs. Holy Spirit controversy in 15:45B like Linda Blair's in the Exorcist. The Trinity hadn't been fully conceived yet. Paul was a bitarian. The Father and Son are a Binity. The Son is the Spirit. The Father is the Spirit too. The Spirit is the the love between them. Re-enter the Trinity. That was my head going full circle again. ![]()
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