The natural world which mankind inhabits is visible to physical eyes. Tangible objects fill the scenes of this earthly realm. The world and its components are familiar and open to humanity and as a result most are comfortable with their natural environment and with what they can physically see. Yet, man is a two-fold being in that he is a spiritual being as well as an earthly one. Man possesses a soul, and that soul will live eternally. Of course, the soul of man pertains to the spiritual side of mankind where the spirit world play an integral role in the decisions he makes, the influences he is subjected to, and where the soul of man will ultimately spend eternity. The invisible spirit world is full of spirits which aid every soul in choosing their final eternal destination. It is this world that most are neither familiar nor comfortable with considering or giving much heed. However, if a soul is to successfully reach heaven then it is of vital importance to consider the spiritual side of man and what it entails.
A spirit is an immaterial, intelligent being. A spirit can also be described as the disposition of the mind or intellect. People are the result of the spirit to which they lend themselves. Jesus expressed to the disciples in one instance that they were not aware of the spirit influencing them. There are many different spirits that influence people. The bible names the spirit of wisdom and understanding. There are spirits of fear, jealousy, fornication, and countless others. In order for a man to enter Heaven he must be born of a particular spirit, the Holy Spirit (John 3:5). The Spirit of God will bring the right influences into the heart of the truly converted soul. David asked God to renew in him a right spirit (Psalm...
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... blatantly expose themselves to a human being the majority of the time, but rather must be discerned. A real saint of God can distinguish what is of God’s spirit and what is in opposition of God’s spirit. The Holy Spirit will give the needed discernment to the heart that is open and close to God. Such a heart will have the power to overcome every wrong spirit that stands in the way of the redeemed. Spirits represent themselves through people, and people can use many different ways to manifest the spirit that influences them. May God help each one who has a claim to true Salvation to be able to discern by the help of the Holy Ghost the spirits, or influences, that oppose the truth. The Holy Spirit is the only spirit that will safely take the soul of man to heaven.
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The English Standard Version Bible. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Print.
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Having spirit is the only way to have access to the outer realm, which is perfect in every way. Our bodies keep us from realizing that we have something inside us that is more important.
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...ssified ghost into two categories blessed, and damned spirits. Those who come from paradise appear for a good purpose and those from hell for an awful and demonic purpose. While a few apparitions could be heavenly angels in a form of a ghost, Protestants felt that spirits were mainly evil because they take the form of dead friends and relatives to abuse and harm people.
What is the human spirit? As defined by Wikipedia, the human spirit is defined as, “…the spiritual or mental part of humanity.” Further, “The human
...s nature. One angle on this is that abstracting the moment from spirituality, namely, to focus on the temporal moment involving worldly affairs, is to prevent spiritual inwardness to be reached. Another angle is to understand that with spirit it is possible to understand the future with an immediate sense of its possibility to go about life as an earnest task, which means that one does not need to be anxious about the future and idly waiting for it to come in order to understand human possibility.
The same mysterious energy that allows our brains to function. There are many meanings associated with the word ghost. Of course, the most common is that a ghost is the Spirit or soul of a person who is no longer living. A spirit is the soul of a person who for whatever reason has not gone on yet. We have also heard many stories of people having encounters with Angels.
Several literatures such as Dickson (1975), Shelly and fish (1988) and Stoll (1989) have tried to interpret the concept of spirituality by first exploring and understanding the possible meaning associated with the term spirituality by looking at its root word ‘spirit’. The word has originated from the Latin word ‘spiritus’, which construes as “breath, wind and air”. This c...
• The Holy Spirit is the spirit of love that dwells in each and every last one of us, it is not a part of the body so if the body dies, the spirit will continue to live. Because love never dies.
The doctrine of the Holy Spirit begins with examining biblical witness to the work of the Holy Spirit in the history of Israel, as well as the ministry of Jesus, and in the life of the church. During the creation account it was the breath of God that grave life to all creation. The Holy Spirit has been a primate actor sin the beginning of time. While the Spirit was present prior to the ministry of Christ, the New Testament speaks in greater detail of the Spirit because it empowered Jesus. From his conception to the day of Pentecost the Sprit was present and active in the life of Christ and the believers. We see in ...
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Is the human soul mortal or immortal? With death does one fall into nothingness or does one survive death, passing into another way of existing? This is a question that has agitated thought for ages. There is something within all human beings that lives on forever. Even when death is upon us, the soul of a human being never dies. Thus, we arrive at the statement that the human soul is immortal. The purpose of this paper is to explain how the human soul is immortal through analyzing various philosophies.
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