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Contrarily, when something is symbolic, it means it didn't actually happen but has a deeper meaning somewhere (like "let the dead bury the dead" or "I was flying in the clouds with joy when I saw you"
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Let the dead -> (spiritually dead) burry the dead -> (Literally dead).
That would've happened which clashes with what you say here.
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I don't see that spiritual = spirit, the spiritual comes from the spirit, which I think is what you're saying as well.
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They cannot be described with scientific instruments as they are not material."
I get that, but God is Spirit, so we'll just call that a thing and what I was asking or suggesting, do we within us have a spirit, as just referenced?
You seem to think that something like that, goes somewhere when we die, if I'm reading you and your site correctly?
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I have been doing a bit of thinking, some research on the matter.
Mainstream Christianity appears to suggest that we are supposed to be a tripartite, body, soul and spirit.
Hence we need to go to the beginning of the story, the likes of the OT and see what they taught and understood and it would appear, the above is not so.
So, where did this thinking seem to begin, and it would appear, it is from the Greek's of all people, especially when you consider the odd things they used to believe in.
It also appears that when you take all of Paul's writings into account and with true context and consider that he would have been coming from the likes of Hebrew roots or whatever and not Greek, he does not appear to separate body, soul and spirit and pretty much references them as one in the same, ex a person, the whole package.
1 Thes 5:23 -
Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. I would suggest the word "whole" applies across the board to all three refences here.
It makes no sense for the body to be preserved blameless, if one is to suggest a tripartite.
Matt 22:27 -
Jesus said to him, “‘You shall love the LORD your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind.’In other words here, the You is to give it everything you've got, the you which is ONE package, is what I'm seeing.
All three are effectively being referenced as one in the same, the you and the mind/brain the controlling factor, the driver so to speak.
Ex - how can your heart do this?
Many OT passages, produce messages relating to the heart (heaps of them) and these same messages also in places, are given in relation to the soul or the spirit = again, all representing One, as in the entire person.
As in, man became a living soul, which effectively means, come alive.
It simply does not say he come alive and received a soul or spirit.
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A key question that needs addressing, do any of the writers in the Bible say that, something of us goes some where when we die, and is in a conscious state?
The spirit going back to God, could simply be the breath of life.
