God’s Active Force; Holy Spirit. By far the majority of occurrences of ru´ach and pneu´ma relate to God’s spirit, his active force, his holy spirit.Since this is no doubt covered endlessly in the trinity thread, I won't go into detail here on many aspects of God's holy spirit. I will just mention a couple of things:Distinguished from “powe…[Read more]

God’s Son. God’s “only-begotten son,” the Word, was a spirit person like his Father, hence “existing in God’s form” (Php 2:5-8), but later “became flesh,” residing among mankind as the man Jesus. (Joh 1:1, 14) Completing his earthly course, he was “put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit.” (1Pe 3:18) His Father resurrected hi…[Read more]

Spirit Persons. God is invisible to human eyes (Ex 33:20; Joh 1:18; 1Ti 1:17), and he is alive and exercises unsurpassed force throughout the universe. (2Co 3:3; Isa 40:25-31) Christ Jesus states: “God is a Spirit .” The apostle writes: “Now Jehovah is the Spirit.” (Joh 4:24; 2Co 3:17, 18) The temple built on Christ as foundation corners…[Read more]

Wind. Consider first the sense that is perhaps easiest to grasp. The context in many cases shows ru´ach to mean “wind,” as the “east wind” (Ex 10:13), “the four winds.” (Zec 2:6) The mention of such things as clouds, storm, the blowing of chaff or things of similar nature appearing in the context often makes evident this sense. (Nu 11:31; 1Ki 1…[Read more]

Hey Nick. I drifted away from your question. SPIRITThe Greek pneu´ma (spirit) comes from pne´o, meaning “breathe or blow,” and the Hebrew ru´ach (spirit) is believed to come from a root having the same meaning. Ru´ach and pneu´ma, then, basically mean “breath” but have extended meanings beyond that basic s…[Read more]

What is the condition of the dead?Eccl. 9:5: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all.”Ps. 146:4: “His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish.”John 11:11-14: “‘Lazarus our friend has gone to rest, but I am journeying there to awaken him from sl…[Read more]

SpiritThe Hebrew word ru´ach and the Greek pneu´ma, which are often translated “spirit,” have a number of meanings. All of them refer to that which is invisible to human sight and which gives evidence of force in motion. The Hebrew and Greek words are used with reference to (1) wind, (2) the active life-force in earthly creatures, (3) the impel…[Read more]

Nick, if we are told a hundred times that something is so in the Bible, and we come upon a story that Jesus gave which may or may not be an illustration or parable, knowing that Jesus spoke a great great deal in illustrations,and this story that we're considering if taken literally and not as an illustration contradicts those other hundred…[Read more]

‘GRANTED,’ someone might say, ‘Hades is never used in the Bible to refer to a place of fiery torment. But does not the Bible speak of “hell fire”?’True, numerous translations of the Christian Greek Scriptures (commonly called the “New Testament”) use the expression “hell fire” or “fires of hell.” In this case the Greek term rendered “hell” is ge´e…[Read more]

If you want to destroy something, do you crush it? Chop it up? Soak it in water? What do you do?All the worlds incinerators testify to the fact that if you want to destroy something, you burn it. Hence, fire is a symbol of complete destruction.Gehenna is Symbolic of Complete Destruction. It is evident that Jesus used Gehenna as representative…[Read more]

I couldn't remember what the whole thing actually said.Where your Bible has the word “being,” that word there originally was nephesh I believe, which is the word “soul.” man, Adam, same word in Hebrew.he or the man or man as you say “became a living soul.”It doesn't say he was given a soul or a soul was a part of him.He WAS a soul.Adam, the man,…[Read more]

I was about to ask the same question Kenrch. “God is love.” What loving parent would put their child's hand on the stove burner if their child sinned. No parent I know. Isn't God more loving, more just, than any human parent?It is a disgrace to Jehovah Almighty to slander him in such a disrespectful light. To say that he created a place where…[Read more]

Quote Thus our complete being,”body, soul and spirit”is also a vessel.And Adam “came to be a body, soul and spirit.” (Genesis something or another.)Nope.It says that when the breath of life (spirit) was breathed into Adam, he came to be “a living soul.” Soul was in no way a part of his makeup, along with his body and the spirit.Adam WAS, WAS,…[Read more]

No Nick, please don't throw out your baby. I don't think you should become so frustrated or upset that you should lose all sence and throw your baby away with the bathwater. Please don't!Is that what you wanted me to say? To take your words literally? Sometimes taking things literally leads to wrong conclusions.This is such a time.Is it…[Read more]

No, but rather, you ignore the rest of scripture and build your thoughts around how you interpret this “unusual parable,” as you say, which you take literally. If it is to be taken literally, as you say, I'm not sure it really would be a “parable,” as you say.If it were to be taken literally, as you say, it would mean that those enjoying divine…[Read more]

Quote Hi david,Is Abel silent in Sheol?Enoch is very interesting on this subject.Gen 3.10″He said'The voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground..'”Hebrews 12.24″ and to Jesus , the mediator of a new covenant , and to the sprinkled blood, which speaks better than the blood of Abel” As we've learned, “soul” often means the life…[Read more]

Quote Rev 20.14″ then DEATH and HADESwere thrown in the Lake of fire”Scripture does not waste words.You say “hades” means “death” and yet they are differentiated here. Why?Just because Sheol is used in one verse and Hades at another also does not prove the words are interchangeable. Hades is part of Sheol and so some verses are more specific than…[Read more]

Nick, on the second post in this topic, did you actually say:”the Father does not have a name.” He doesn't need one?Or are you being confusingly sarcastic in some manner I don't understand?I haven't read the posts that followed yours, so maybe you clarified later.david.

Nick, the above are the answers to any questions you might ask me. I may have missed one or two things, so I'll just add the following about “Hell”:Does the Bible indicate whether the dead experience pain?Eccl. 9:5, 10: “The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all . . . All that your h…[Read more]

I guess not.