Moorad Alexanian wrote:
>
> Dear George,
>
> Spirit is that which is immaterial and a part of man. Man is body, mind and
> spirit. An animal is body and mind.
This is _not_ the biblical picture. In Ps.104:27-30 "all" (v.27) of the animals
creatures described earlier - lions, badgers &c as well as humans - are seen as
enspirited by God. The Nicene Greek says that the Holy Spirit is "The Lord, the giver
of life" - life _simpliciter_, not "human life" or "religious life" or anything like
that.
> Man cannot be explained as a material
> being only. The whole realm of the moral is outside the physical, yet it
> exists.
This sort of view often has behind it a misunderstanding of the Pauline
"spirit-flesh" distinction. That is not an "immaterial-material" difference but one
between being in accord with God & being separated from God.
Shalom,
George
George L. Murphy
gmurphy@raex.com
http://web.raex.com/~gmurphy/
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