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What Does Spirit Mean in the Bible Read through 2 lenses
God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.”
What does spirit mean in the Bible?
Spirit: the mind's own awareness of what it is, the inner strength that carries every trouble as long as it has not made itself guilty.
Christian Psychology lens · Proverbs 18:14
Where spirit appears in the Bible
John 16:13
However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.
1 Chronicles 10:13
So Saul died for his trespass which he committed against Yahweh, because of Yahweh’s word, which he didn’t keep; and also because he asked counsel of one who had a familiar spirit, to inquire,
1 Corinthians 2:4
My speech and my preaching were not in persuasive words of human wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power,
Spirit through 2 lenses
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Christian Psychology · John 4:24
Christian Psychology
If God is Spirit, then the mind cannot meet Him through the body or its offerings. What is wholly formless is not approached by form. The mind that keeps searching for God in objects and observances is looking in the one place He cannot be, and so its longing goes unanswered.
To worship in spirit and in truth is to recognize that the meeting takes place within, where the mind and its Source share the same nature. When the mind remembers it is spirit, it discovers there was never any distance to cross.
- Spirit: the true nature the mind shares with its Source, formless and undivided, the ground on which alone God can be known
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Esoteric · John 16:13
Esoteric
The Spirit of truth is the photon, the particle of light that enters and guides the whole of a person into knowing. It does not originate its own message but carries what it receives from the higher source, so the light within simply relays the truth it hears and reveals what is coming. Scripture opens only to this inner light reached in stillness, because meaning is delivered by the moving particle, not by the reasoning surface mind.
What happens in a person is that light itself becomes the teacher, leading awareness into every truth it is ready to hold and showing what lies ahead once the mind grows quiet enough to follow.
- Spirit: the photon, the particle of light that guides consciousness into truth
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What spirit means in each story
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- PsychoanalysisSpirit / wind / breath (ruach): Ruach means spirit, wind and breath at once. In Jung's terms it is a living, purposeful energy inside the unconscious that 'wants' to become conscious: the psyche's built-in drive toward order and meaning.Genesis 1:1-2
- Clinical PsychologyGod's Spirit (hovering over the waters): the ordering force that turns possibility into a livable world.Genesis 1:1-2
- Clinical PsychologyGod's Spirit (hovering over the waters): like human consciousness, attention and speech making order.Genesis 1:1-2
- ManifestationGod's Spirit hovering (over the waters): your imagination moving out of one state into another.Genesis 1:1-2
- ManifestationThe Spirit moving: the stirred feeling an idea must produce in you before it creates.Genesis 1:1-2
- PsychoanalysisPharaoh's troubled spirit: Pharaoh wakes troubled. Big dreams disturb the ruling consciousness.Genesis 41:1-13
Commentaries on spirit
Swedenborg (1887) · spirit
SPIRIT. By s. is understood the life of man in general; the various affections of lite with man, also the life of the regenerate which is called the spiritual life, also spiritual life communicated to those who are in humiliation: but where the ys. is spoken of as relative to the Lord, its. his divine life, consequently, the Lord himself’; and in particular the life of his wisdom which is the divine truth. L. 47, 48, 49, 50,51. S.s. the understanding. D. L. W. 583.
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