2007-06-08 08:46:34 · 10 answers · asked by sparkles9 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think the problem is that too many people define it personally. That is why the Bible was written, to define terms as God wants them defined. In the Bible the soul and the spirit are two separate entities. Today they have been merged into one, so that people now equate the soul (especially the emotions) with the spirit, sing a few emotional songs and think they are having a spiritual experience.
I Cor 2:13 These things we also speak, not in words which man's wisdom teaches but which the Holy Spirit teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual. 14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know [them,] because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is [rightly] judged by no one.
2007-06-08 08:52:05 · answer #1 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Your spirit does not necessarily have supernatural characteristics. I define it as our conscience, our essence, or the vital part of ourselves, and it is all of these things while we are living.
Despite what was said above, I think our spirits *should* be defined on an individual basis, by the individual. It's not for anyone else to determine, no matter what you believe in.
2007-06-08 09:04:50 · answer #2 · answered by Sookie 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The eternal spark in you.
What lives on after your body dies.
I've always thought of soul more as an emotional thing
I don't think spirit and soul are synonymous.
A spirit, to me, is the supernatural part.
Soul is the human part, kind of like what appeared when people were given cognitive thought.
Like that theory scientists are trying to spread
We're only two-dimensional, so gravity doesn't exist.
But since we think we're thee-dimensional, gravity does exist.
We created souls like we created gravity.
Well, the article I was referring to isn't online.
I guess it's a magazine only thing.
2007-06-08 08:49:26 · answer #3 · answered by needlepoint_lace 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Spirit- an at least somewhat sentient force. It doesn't need to be part of a 'living' thing, but has a bit of life itself. It doesn't have to be able to communicate in a normal way for a living thing, a spirit can communicate in many forms. I believe that almost everything has a spirit of some sort.
Then again, that just might be my excuse for talking to in-animate objects... ^-^
2007-06-08 08:57:07 · answer #4 · answered by Nyx 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In heathenry, we think of it a bit more complexly and simply at the same time, but what most would refer to as spirit we call "maegn" (pronounced "main" and referenced in the phrase "might and main," where it means much the same thing) . . . the quality to WILL , the *force* of one's being.
There's a whole body of skills known as "maegncraft" that involve its applied use.
2007-06-08 09:06:16 · answer #5 · answered by Boar's Heart 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Spirit - Our Soul;
Here's how to connect to Your Spirit and start Your journey back home, to Heaven:
Create a Private, Personal, Direct, Divine Relationship with Our Creator and save Your Soul from religion's and atheist's beliefs and start Your journey back home, to Heaven.
<<<<<<< UnConditional Love is the only answer >>>>>>>
Love and Believe in Our Creator;
Love and Believe in Yourself.
"religion is Spiritual fraud";
"religion is the Worse invention of humanity";
"Universal Truth has eliminated religion from Spirituality",
quotes of Jesus Christ, Buddha and any one else with Spiritual intelligence.
"When a person is freed of religion, they have a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life." S. Freud
Here are some of my quotes:
Only with Our Creator's Love and Peace will we be Truly Free!
Without God, there is No Love; Without religion, there are No Wars!
Freedom of religion is Freedom from religion.
atheists = all the people in religion = all the ignorant fundamentalists = all the cults/superstitions = paganism = wicca = = taoism = xians = scientology = homosexuals/lesbians = skinheads = politicians = lawyers.
2007-06-08 08:50:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
The Spirit of a human being is the spiritual "heart"...the essence that is you.
The Soul is the mind,will and emotions.
2007-06-08 08:52:23 · answer #7 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The Cartesian "ghost in the machine."
It's not taken seriously by mainstream philosphers or scientists today.
2007-06-08 08:50:05 · answer #8 · answered by Minh 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have a whole spiritual body just like you worldly body. Also called your soul.
2007-06-08 08:55:56 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Non-material being. Or, perhaps better: super-natural being.
2007-06-08 08:53:23 · answer #10 · answered by TEK 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋