Well, "God" sometimes stinks. Face it, you're grasping for straws now. There is no evidence to state the "breath" proves anything supernatural. You just admitted your "God" is nothing more than hot air. YOUR BIBLE says the "God is Spirit"...(i.e. "Yahweh is Hot Air")
I.E.-- "BREATH"..."hot air" WE didn't "start" it. Energy/Matter has always existed in some form, it cannot be created or destroyed but can only change form. Proven by Einstein in 1905. Electricity is a form of energy. You're not really up on your science or history are ya?
Oh....that old "argument"....puh-leeze You dismiss the scientific progress to make such an asinine statement as that!! Science is based on progress. Come and ask me that in 100 years or 1000? Don't you see that science has always turned your medievel, religious mystical world into a pretzel through TIME..."volcano gods", "flat earths" "rotating Sun", etc. Just because it doesn't happen NOW, means it can't happen in the future?? What about life support? What about bringing someone back with the right medical equipment? What about sustaining life and health with medications not formerly available? People like you were the same shit about those things earlier in history. And FYI: MYSTERIOUS or UNEXPLAINED DOESN'T = JESUSDIDIT!!! YAY!!!
The only 'part of science' that contradicts Christianity is evolution. All the others fit with the Bible. Why are you trying to talk yourself out of answering my question? BTW: How did the writers of the Bible know the Earth was a circle?
You are completely wrong. The modern definition is more advanced and specific then the ancient definition. You know, like the modern definition of the elements that compose matter are more specific than the ancient definitions? Spirit does not literally mean breath (it does not specifically refer to a specific physical component of the body). It means an animating or vital principle (although breath is felt to be one of those). Etymology is fascinating, but you have to realise that the use of the word 'breath' was symbolic for other things, not literal breath. Anyway, read Young's literal translation (or other direct translations)- the hebrew and aramaic are directly translated to spirit, because that is more accurate of a term (in modern usage) than 'breath' (you know exactly what I mean by breath). Anyway, I think what you say is fascinating, even if it isn't completely accurate.
Exactly. So you have to understand what they meant in terms of there times. Someone reading the word bullshit who interprets it literally is not going to understand what you mean by it, the same way someone reading the word "breath" and interpreting it literally would not understand what the ancients meant by it (the modern definition of spirit is a more accurate way of describing what the ancients meant by breath).
That's a fucking cop out! The word "spirit" used in the Bible is "breath". Now, because it has been mutated by the propagandist and twisted into something it's not--that is defintion I am supposed to go with??
No, you're supposed to stop being stupid and realise what the ancients mean by breath. It does not literally mean breath, it is metaphorical for life giving principle (or something like that).