What is Spirit?

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The spirit is being defined with revelation. My question is that: If some does not accept spirit hence what is to be instead of spirit?
 
hasantas said:
What is that “Consciousness”? What is that consist of? Can you exposition?
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Consciousness is the essence of any being with the ability to experience and affect. It doesn’t consist of anything.
 
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Everything is the result of consciousness and not vice versa.
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Why do you say everything is the result of consciousness but do not give any annonated knowledge. Forexample you can say that the consciousness is result of energy or magnetic field or wave etc?
 
hasantas said:
Why do you say everything is the result of consciousness but do not give any annonated knowledge. Forexample you can say that the consciousness is result of energy or magnetic field or wave etc?
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No, everything is manifestation of act of consciousness.
 
The Latin word root for spirit-- and its equivalents in Greek and Hebrew – mean breath.

Spirit can be understood as a breath from God.

ICXC NIKA
 
GEddie said:
The Latin word root for spirit-- and its equivalents in Greek and Hebrew – mean breath.

Spirit can be understood as a breath from God.

ICXC NIKA
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Yes spirit is a breath, law from God. Could you explain further! Or could you give some proofs for soul because some think that the source of morality and senses and life is not spirit but something else like energy. Bahman claims the source is the consciousness but he does not give any information.
 
For me, spirit is from God and is analogous to the airwaves that brings about the picture and sound of a television. Based on this analogy, God’s spirit is responsible for all consciousness. I believe it’s a big mistake to assume that consciousness is brought about by the brain, similar to how absurd it would be to believe that the picture and sound of a television are somehow produced by the television itself.
 
Robert_Sock said:
For me, spirit is from God and is analogous to the airwaves that brings about the picture and sound of a television. Based on this analogy, God’s spirit is responsible for all consciousness. I believe it’s a big mistake to assume that consciousness is brought about by the brain, similar to how absurd it would be to believe that the picture and sound of a television are somehow produced by the television itself.
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That is a good illustration. The consciousness is morality so the source of it cannot be the brain which is consist of matter and work with energy.
 
A spirit is an anonymous force that influences the will of people and is responsible for the atmosphere in a meeting of people.
 
thinkandmull said:
That sounds like Buddhism. But how can there be consciousness with something which is conscious?
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Consciousness is the essence of any being and it grants the ability to experience and create. It is very simple and it is primary.
 
hasantas said:
The spirit is being defined with revelation. My question is that: If some does not accept spirit hence what is to be instead of spirit?
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You might be thinking of the creation of Adam and Eve when God said, " Let us make man in our image and likeness. " And then God " …breathed life into them. " In this context " spirit " means " soul " of principle of life.

On the other hand, when Genesis speaks of the " Spirit " moving over the waters, it is refering to God creating the waters. God is a spirit, a living spirit…

But throughout the Scriptures, Old and New, " spirit " refers to an immaterial, living soul. The human soul is immaterial and living and the nature of God is a living, immaterial Spirit… And an angel is a living, immaterial spirit or soul. We don’t usually refer to God as a soul, but we could.

Linus2nd
 
Linusthe2nd said:
You might be thinking of the creation of Adam and Eve when God said, " Let us make man in our image and likeness. " And then God " …breathed life into them. " In this context " spirit " means " soul " of principle of life.

On the other hand, when Genesis speaks of the " Spirit " moving over the waters, it is refering to God creating the waters. God is a spirit, a living spirit…

But throughout the Scriptures, Old and New, " spirit " refers to an immaterial, living soul. The human soul is immaterial and living and the nature of God is a living, immaterial Spirit… And an angel is a living, immaterial spirit or soul. We don’t usually refer to God as a soul, but we could.

Linus2nd
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You stated well. But the part whic I underlined (nature of God is a living, immaterial Spirit) is a bit uncertain. Because we cannot comprehend nature of God. And "spirit moving over waters " refers to not God but to some which God created(Jesus or an Angel). Anyway we cannot associate nature of God with anything. God create spirit but God is not a spirit. Because in one context spirit is principle or law but God is not a law! God create laws.

We do not need to learn and comprehend the nature of God but we need to find and know God.
 
hasantas said:
Yes spirit is a breath, law from God. Could you explain further! Or could you give some proofs for soul because some think that the source of morality and senses and life is not spirit but something else like energy. Bahman claims the source is the consciousness but he does not give any information.
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The word spirit comes from Latin spiritus, breath.

Spiritus translates the Greek word pneuma, breath.

The human soul, in Hebrew, is called Neshamah, which has the root of breath, but refers not to air in our nose, but a breath from God. Animals breathe, so do we, but our spiritual soul is breathed into us directly from God.

Life cannot be energy because energy can be measured scientifically. Science knows quite well how energy is transferred in our bodies, but it cannot see life, only its actions in living cells and bodies.

Consciousness is not the source either because most of our life functions occur without our awareness of them or even (in conception) before we had any awareness or mind at all.

ICXC NIKA.
 
hasantas said:
You stated well. But the part whic I underlined (nature of God is a living, immaterial Spirit) is a bit uncertain. Because we cannot comprehend nature of God. And "spirit moving over waters " refers to not God but to some which God created(Jesus or an Angel). Anyway we cannot associate nature of God with anything. God create spirit but God is not a spirit. Because in one context spirit is principle or law but God is not a law! God create laws.

We do not need to learn and comprehend the nature of God but we need to find and know God.
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I think your best Islamic philosophers would agree with me. Of course we cannot know God as he actually is in himself. But we can know something true about him from the things he has made. In the Scriptures he is definitely known as a Spirit. As for interpreting the " spirit moving over the waters, " we have to say that that Spirit is God because we are talking about creation and only God can create. We can call God pure, self sufficient Existence, Being, Spirit. At least Thomas Aquinas doesn’t see anything wrong with it.

Yes ’ spirit ’ can be used in several ways, which we determine from the context of its use.

Linus2nd
 
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