are we spiritual beings having a human experience or human beings having a spiritual experience?

Answer 1

That is an excellent question. I think the answer lies somewhere in between. We are born on this planet largely as the latter option. We are human beings with an animal inheritance and we have access to spiritual experience through faith and through certain gifts of God such as the indwelling spirit. Our goal while here on earth is to develop a soul and through spiritual growth and experience, switch the seat of our identity from this physical body to the spiritual soul. When we die, the soul becomes the new vehicle for our personality to continue on. That is the technical part of the process which allows us through our faith to have eternal life. We are from then on more like the former option in your question. We are then spiritual beings who have had a human experience.

Answer 2

Both...

1Co 15:44 it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
1Co 15:45 So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL." The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.
1Co 15:46 However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.
1Co 15:47 The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven.
1Co 15:48 As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly.
1Co 15:49 Just as we have borne the image of the earthy, we will also bear the image of the heavenly.
1Co 15:50 Now I say this, brethren, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God; nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.

1Co 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, so that we may know the things freely given to us by God,
1Co 2:13 which things we also speak, not in words taught by human wisdom, but in those taught by the Spirit, combining spiritual thoughts with spiritual words.
1Co 2:14 But a natural man does not accept the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; and he cannot understand them, because they are spiritually appraised.
1Co 2:15 But he who is spiritual appraises all things, yet he himself is appraised by no one.
1Co 2:16 For WHO HAS KNOWN THE MIND OF THE LORD, THAT HE WILL INSTRUCT HIM? But we have the mind of Christ.

Answer 3

I believe the quote is from the French thinker and priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, now not Tolstoy... But that's an apart. More immediately on your query, I believe that a transparent definition of "non secular being" and "non secular enjoy" is first so as, as good as a transparent difference among the bodily and the non secular. After all, on what purpose groundwork can one pass judgement on that what we understand as a religious enjoy honestly is non secular and now not a bodily person who we with no trouble misconstrue to be non secular? That having been stated, and assuming a priori that the non secular does certainly exist, I might believe the previous choice (us being bodily beings) is a long way much more likely than our being 'non secular' beings. Why? Well, 'non secular being' turns out to suggest (and missing a transparent definition from you, I can best cross through my possess interpretations) that is going on after the 'bodily' side of our lifestyles is over. Since, nonetheless, extra humans are being regularly born, this yields 2 choices. First, is that the historical human souls/spirits/some thing (I will simply use 'souls' as shorthand for this any more) persist and that new souls for newborns pop up out of not anything. While feasible, it's fantastic on the grounds that it violates fundamental conservation concepts (conservation of cost, vigour, momentum, likelihood) that have heretofore been found to be inviolable - the one matters that aren't conserved are the matters that may be modified and get away as different varieties. I think that it is easy to then argue that our souls can also be modified to and from whatever else, however might that now not lead them to bodily? I think it is easy to additionally simply deny off-hand that souls have to behave in any logically intelligent process, however with this denial utterly missing any proof or common sense to help it, it might be irrational, and I am accordingly disinclined to provide it extra attention. The moment choice is that historical souls grow to be new souls - reincarnation for such a lot intents and functions. But on the grounds that we don't have any (no less than now not objectively) reminiscences of any former lives, are we able to fairly say that it's our soul dwelling on? If all reminiscences are burnt up, what side of 'us' is it that persists? Indeed, below the sort of situation, I might argue that we as a being stop to exist as quickly as our soul is accordingly 'recycled.' The best different probability that I see is that we don't have any 'souls' past the electro-chemical impulses going for walks up and down our nerve cells - that we're simply bodily. Having argued the implausibility of the opposite choices above, that is what I maintain to be without doubt. So if we do have non secular reviews, we now have them as innately bodily beings, IMHO.

Answer 4

Without a doubt we are ALL...Spiritual beings having a wonderfully human experience..

Answer 5

the first one

Answer 6

Depends on whether you are born again or not.


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Answer 7

the second one.

Answer 8

I am a Child of Light...

Answer 9

I have now upgraded to a migraine...