16 Feb 22
@fmf saidThese are interesting and legitimate questions - except the last one. Your mention of an antidote suggests there is an illness. All I can contribute to that is a quote from Tony Soprano: "There's no cure for life"
A "dead human spirit":
What is it exactly?
How can one recognize one?
Is subscribing to one of the religions the antidote?
16 Feb 22
@mchill saidIllness. Dead. Cure. Antidote. It's just figurative language.
These are interesting and legitimate questions - except the last one. Your mention of an antidote suggests there is an illness.
Does subscribing to one of the religions address the problem of a "dead human spirit", to your way of thinking?
16 Feb 22
@fmf saidDoes subscribing to one of the religions address the problem of a "dead human spirit", to your way of thinking?
Illness. Dead. Cure. Antidote. It's just figurative language.
Does subscribing to one of the religions address the problem of a "dead human spirit", to your way of thinking?
I don't look upon the spirit of a dead person as a "problem" As to your question of subscribing to one of the religions, I think I've made my feelings on that rather clear.
16 Feb 22
@fmf saidWell, in the context in which it was brandished recently, it's just an attempt to insult triggered by disagreement.
A "dead human spirit":
What is it exactly?
But, as for a definition of "human spirit", I'd go with it being the mental functions of awareness and insight, as well as understanding, judgement and other reasoning powers.
More broadly, when talking about all of us [we humans], I'd say the "human spirit" is the energy and capacities [for abstraction] that animate and inform the human experience.
16 Feb 22
@fmf saidAs for the accusation of having a "dead human spirit" levelled recently on the "In Christ is not metaphorical" thread, I think it translates to 'You are not a Christian!', in which case, seen in this narrow way, I think - for the accuser anyway - subscribing to Christianity would be the antidote.
Is subscribing to one of the religions the antidote?
16 Feb 22
@fmf saidIf you cut a branch off of a tree, there is life in the branch at first, but its death is sure. We apart of God are cut off the branch of life which is God our death is sure. Jesus Christ grafted us back into God by the grace of God through faith.
As for the accusation of having a "dead human spirit" levelled recently on the "In Christ is not metaphorical" thread, I think it translates to 'You are not a Christian!', in which case, seen in this narrow way, I think - for the accuser anyway - subscribing to Christianity would be the antidote.