What is the difference between intellectual and Spiritual?

Answer 1

Intellectual is using your five basic senses and the logic dictated by society to address the world around you. Spirituality is using the intangible....the knowledge that exists with in you ...as your guide. This is not to say that one is better than the other as balance cannot be achieved by choosing one over the other. It is to be found in the equalibrium of the two.

Answer 2

If I am to take my experience of others as a guide I would have to say that you have to believe nonsense to be spiritual but the intellectual is interested in that which can be shown to be factual. So they are polar opposites in that sense. But personally I don't see why the intellect can not be considered 'spiritual' in more of a literary sense. Since most real intellectuals will dismiss the idea of a soul that exists apart from the body.

Answer 3

Here's the best answer I've ever heard for this. It's at the website:
http://www.MusingsAboutGod.com
in the article "Uncommon definitions of Common Words"

this is all a direct quote from the site.

"Spiritual or spirituality:
This one turned out to be amazing. Again I used a little mind experiment. I started by simply looking at my hand. And I thought "everything about my hand is physical, it's bone and flesh and blood and electrical impulses; physical". But if I take that same very, actually totally, physical hand, and pick a clean fresh piece of fruit and give that fruit to a starving child, somehow it becomes spiritual. Everything used and everything done was physical, and yet it became spiritual. And then I thought "Satan is a spirit, but he's not spiritual". My hand is physical and yet it can be spiritual. A conundrum. So I realized if you move something physical in a pattern that reflects the thinking or emotional nature of God, that's spiritual. Because you're reflecting the dominant emotional nature of God, or his spirit. Actually when God describes his spirit in Galatians the sixth chapter he himself describes it in terms that are only emotional i.e. Love, Joy, Peace, Mildness, Goodness, etc.
This is not to say that God's spirit is not an active force or power, actually everyone's spirit is their active or actuating force, your emotions are what motivate you. Jesus himself illustrated Holy Spirit in a manner that showed it to be an active force. (John 20:22) It will always manifest God's dominant emotional qualities, thus if you truly have God's spirit you will always manifest his emotional qualities, whether you have the more miraculous works or not. Those works are always consistent with his spirit, or dominant emotional nature. It is not a religious term, it is an emotional term.
So having God's spirit means having his dominant emotional pattern and acting in harmony with it.
So, instead of saying So-and-So is a "spiritual" person, it is more meaningful, descriptive, and understandable to say So-and-So is a "Godlike thinking, acting, and feeling person".'

Answer 4

They are two different parts of a person. Intellectual intelligence is only one of many kinds of intelligences just as is spiritual intelligence. All of us have some of both, some of us have more but everyone possesses combinations of intelligences.

The Skeptical Christian, JPO
Grace and Peace
Peg

Answer 5

I like the German word "Geiste", which has a combined meaning of spirit, mind and intellect.

But in English the two words have different meanings; spiritual usually has a connotation of an emotional response.

Answer 6

I'm no intellectual but I do have my spiritual side,,,
straight up or on the rocks,,,

Answer 7

Intellect is connected to the soul.Spirituality is using the intellect on moral issues.Course,there is true and false spiritualities.

Answer 8

To be a jerk; about 30 IQ points.

Answer 9

They are polar opposites