SOUL in modern times is often confused with SPIRIT, but in all the ancient world the distinction was very clear: SOUL was the mediator between the SPIRIT and the MATTER, and man was viewed as the triune (three in one) beings with PHYSICAL body and eternal SPIRIT connected for the duration of a lifetime by SOUL.
In Genesis chapter six, we can visualize this distinction when spiritual beings married human beings. The PERVASIVE CORRUPTION of these different entities made GOD to bring a RADICAL CHANGE and JUDGMENT on HIS CREATION.
Genesis 6:1-2 When MEN began to increase in number ON THE EARTH and DAUGHTERS were BORN to them, the SONS OF GOD saw that the DAUGHTERS of men were BEAUTIFUL, and THEY MARRIED any of them they chose.
6:3 Then the Lord said, "MY SPIRIT will NOT CONTEND with MAN forever, for he IS MORTAL, his days will be a hundred and twenty years.
What is the meaning of this one hundred and twenty years? This represent in nature the bondage and open liberality of the SPIRIT of God in MEN through the Soul connected in JESUS, the only ONE of his kind, able to produce that kind of liberation. It was on the DAY of PENTECOST that the HOLY SPIRIT was poured out by JESUS CHRIST on the group of about one hundred and twenty disciples in the upper room at Jerusalem.
The Jews traditionally hold that Pentecost corresponded to the giving of the LAW at SINAI, when Israel became a distinguished people. The Israelites gathered at Sinai and received the Law. Just a MOSES as mediator was used to introduce Israel into the Law covenant, so JESUS CHRIST as MEDIATOR of his followers is now bringing them IN SPIRIT into a new covenant.
The presence of GOD's SPIRIT was manifested in miraculous speaking in different tongues by some one hundred twenty disciples. God prophesied in Genesis that this would happen and gave that length of spiritual time until the change was produced in the same number of disciples to make them acknowledgeable of the heavenly things through THE MEDIATOR, JESUS CHRIST. Having gone into the heavens with the VICTORY of HIS SACRIFICE, Jesus was able to bring his followers into a new dimension, God's new nation, God's "chosen ones," a "holy nation," a people for special possession.
1 Peter 2:4-12 As you come to Him, THE LIVING STONE - rejected by men but chosen by God and precious to him - you also, like LIVING STONES, are being built into a SPIRITUAL house
.....(11) Dear friends, I urge you, as aliens and strangers in the world, to abstain from sinful desires, which WAR AGAINST your SOUL. Live such good lives among the pagans that, though they accuse you of doing wrong, they may see your good deeds and glorified God...
I leave you now my followers and try to be strong in your souls, because the corruption of the world is always attacking in a very crafty way.
Trying to understand how this world function in our minds. Interrelation between physical and nonphysical entities.
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Sunday, 4 March 2012
The Spiritual World.........
My dear followers, we continue our journey in the spirit...I want to explain what the word "spirit" means.
This word denotes a wide variety of different concepts. A spirit is usually defined in today languages as a disembodied being. It is often misused to denote the soul beings. In the ancient times the distinction was very clear : SOUL was the mediator between SPIRIT and MATTER. Man was viewed as a triune being, because he possesses a physical body and an eternal spirit connected for the duration of a lifetime by "soul." The psyche of the Greeks and the nephesh ("breath of life") of the Hebrews both prove this connection. In our times, the relationship between the three of them show some inconsistency since many philosophers taught that the soul emerged from the body or leaves the body at the point of death. In view of such inconsistency in non-Biblical writings, it is essential to let the Scriptures speak for themselves.
After God formed man out of dust from the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, "the man came to be a living being. Man was distinct from the animal creation, because he became a living being, while the animals came to be living creatures. The difference between one to the other is simple. Man alone was created "in God image." He was created with the moral qualities like those of God, with power and wisdom far superior to the animals; hence he could have in subjection all the lower forms of creature live. Man's organism was more complex, as well as more versatile, than that of the animals. Likewise, man had, but lost, the prospect of eternal life; this is never stated with regard to the creatures lower than man.
Genesis 1:26 Then God said, Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground."
Keep this understanding in mind, my dear followers, we will continue with this topic in my next publication...
Saturday, 3 March 2012
Invisible World of God, How to understand it......
Most cultures have MYTHS of ORIGINS of their world. One of the most widely known story is the BIBLICAL ACCOUNT. The Book of Genesis opens up with the understanding that the CREATION rests upon the work of the hands of a solitary and mighty GOD who created everything out of nothingness THROUGH THE SPOKEN WORD. However, a close examination of the opening verses of Genesis chapter one, gives us a hint about alternate conceptions of CREATION.
Genesis 1:3 And God said: "Let there be LIGHT." What spiritual elements were first created?
Genesis 1:1 "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." Two different elements are mentioned in this verse. This two gives us the image of God.
Genesis 1:2 "Now the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters." The elements in this INVISIBLE WORLD OF GOD are mentioned in these opening verses. The earth unformed but separated from heaven, darkness sinking and placed over the deep, and the Spirit of the Lord walking over the waters. In other words, man coming out from God in the same process of earth coming out from heaven, the spiritual realm in which man was created is presented here. Darkness already sinking and not belonging to this realm is placed over the surface of the deep, symbolizing the heart of man creation free from the forces of darkness. The Spirit of God hovering over the waters symbolizes the mind of man being protected by the Spirit of the Creator from any contamination from the inside out. A projection of the Spirit of God living inside man and protecting him from the outside forces always in constant rebellion against the laws of God.
With this invisible world already in our minds we can project the images of the elements existing already before the beginning of the world which are mentioned in the Book of Job, chapter 38.
Job 38:4- Where were you when I laid the earth's foundation? Tell me if you understand. Who marked off its dimensions? Surely you know! Who stretched a measuring line across it? On what were its footing set, or who laid its cornerstone - while the morning stars sang together and all the angels shouted for joy? Who shut up THE SEA when it BURST FORTH from THE WOMB, when I MADE THE CLOUDS ITS GARMENT and WRAPPED it IN THICK DARKNESS, and set ITS DOORS and BARS in place, when I said, "THIS FAR YOU MAY COME AND NO FARTHER; HERE IS WHERE YOUR PROUD WAVES HALT?"
The Book of Genesis, chapter one, mention the constant rebellion of the forces in opposition to God's laws when He commands man not to eat from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. Man was created in the image of God, therefore he possesses a good understanding of the elements of the invisible realm and why he needed to follow the commands that God stipulated for them in order to continue his role among the living beings in which man was the ruler and the life that God prepared for them.
In order to understand better the symbolism that characterize many accounts in the Bible we need to be separated from the visible world and start the journey to the invisible one like many did in the ancient times.
My friend, I will continue with this journey soon...
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