Bible Questions?

Perhaps the spirit that paul is talking about is the spirit we recieve from being born again in christ and becoming a new creation.

Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! (2 cor 5:17)

 

As I mentioned, it seems spirit can mean several things. When you say spirit here, how would you define it?

 

A direct contravention of the words already "committed".

No, being married to someone who commits adultery is reason for the married to be divorced.

The amount of time we spend admiring babes is the same amount of time we have lost our vigilance for God and his kingdom.

A faulty conclusion based on faulty reasoning. Note I do not say misinterpretation of what is written.

 

Exactly. So if someone has committed adultery in their heart doesn't that mean, according to what you believe, that you can divorce them? Seeing as they have already committed adultery. And how would you prove that?

 

I think this verse from earlier in the letter sheds light on what Paul is talking about and the spirit he's refering to.

 

Oh and I could help but notice that you completely ignored James 1:14-15 in your comments?

 

Actually, no. I'm wondering how you define spirit in this case. I know what I think it's talking about but I'm unsure what you think it's talking about. Sorry.

 

I don't have to be married to commit adultery with someone. Waterbrother, our father knows us in secret, seeing the content of mind and heart the way we behold our brothers and sisters. God is not mocked they say and I don't think easily swayed by the claim of getting off on account of a technicality. I didn't physically preform the act so na na na.

 

I wasn't commenting on James 1:14-15.

 

Yep, that's what I just said.

 

Perhaps it's the man's conscience or something similar. I can see now it's not the Holy Spirit that Paul is talking about here.

 

Your sarcasm is lost on me because you are entertaining some private joke.
First you ask me why I am not including the entire verse and then you point out that I am not including a verse that is not even in the same book nor spoken by the same man. By your calculus the only answer to any inquiry must ultimately be the verbatim recitation of the entire bible from beginning to end. Lost in translation.

 

Never mind, I'm sorry that you are having trouble remembering what has been said from one post to another. It might be helpful to you to go back sometimes and reread what has been said to understand the flow of the conversation.

 

This we undertake together. It seems to me your are so busy trying to discredit me on the basis of style that you do not comprehend at all what I am saying, yet I know all the while that God is with us. I remind myself if I should loose my patience, should I fall from my noble steed, get back on quickly because he knows the quickest route to the barn.

 

Discredit you? No, you do that well enough on your own. I was just making the friendly suggestion that when you lose the thread of the conversation you might want to go back and see what we are talking about.

 

Credit is something that is extended to me friend. I have plenty of collateral if and when you decide to examine it honestly.

 

I'll talk to you later, when you decide to refrain from using your quasi-Bible speak and actually want to discuss something. See you then.

 

Is Jesus the archangel Michael?

 

I believe that to be so but there are many who disagree with me.

 

The Archangel Michael and Jesus are both described as being the leader of the Angels in Heaven and a fighter against Satan. The name michael Michael even means who is like God.

I personally believe that they are one in the same. It changes the theology around quite a bit.

So in this theology, God entrusts the powers that he gives to others so that they won't be misused. IMO this follows with the scriptures that God entrusts the kingdom to Jesus.