27 Feb '15 14:40>1 edit
This is thread I should have written six years ago. I probably should have not waited to long to write this.
There is a part of our being that we can exercise in order to touch God and substantiate God. It is our "praying organ". It is a part of our being which is innermost.
Our human spirit can be reach out and touch God the Spirit and the two spirits can even become one -
"He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit" (1 Cor. 6:17)
Some readers will think I I will not be able to argue and argue about the existence of the human spirit.
Others will assume that by human spirit I must mean a human soul.
Others will be quick to say all kinds of religions say similar things and they are not all Christians.
These are three of the pushbacks I immediately expect will come. And I would not say that such objections do not have a point. However, just because they have a point doesn't mean we're not onto something true and real.
So we have something deeper than the mind, deeper than the emotion, deeper than the will. This (for lack of a better word) is our spiritual muscle or capacity to substantiate spiritual reality.
There is one other objection I expect. That is that man has no human spirit until the man is regenerated. Maybe it will not be necessary to be sidetracked into that debate.
I say everyone has a "praying organ" a nucleus or innermost kernel of his being - a human spirit. This human spirit is more subjective then the human soul with its mind, emotion and will.
We have to our spirit healed, regenerated, even brought back to life from its comatose and used condition. And we have to learn to exercise our spirit again and again to contact God the Spirit.
There is a part of our being that we can exercise in order to touch God and substantiate God. It is our "praying organ". It is a part of our being which is innermost.
Our human spirit can be reach out and touch God the Spirit and the two spirits can even become one -
"He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit" (1 Cor. 6:17)
Some readers will think I I will not be able to argue and argue about the existence of the human spirit.
Others will assume that by human spirit I must mean a human soul.
Others will be quick to say all kinds of religions say similar things and they are not all Christians.
These are three of the pushbacks I immediately expect will come. And I would not say that such objections do not have a point. However, just because they have a point doesn't mean we're not onto something true and real.
So we have something deeper than the mind, deeper than the emotion, deeper than the will. This (for lack of a better word) is our spiritual muscle or capacity to substantiate spiritual reality.
There is one other objection I expect. That is that man has no human spirit until the man is regenerated. Maybe it will not be necessary to be sidetracked into that debate.
I say everyone has a "praying organ" a nucleus or innermost kernel of his being - a human spirit. This human spirit is more subjective then the human soul with its mind, emotion and will.
We have to our spirit healed, regenerated, even brought back to life from its comatose and used condition. And we have to learn to exercise our spirit again and again to contact God the Spirit.