To me the word spirit has no supernatural meaning, nor does the bible. The things Jesus spoke about were indeed spiritual but they were not supernatural. The word spirit in its natural sense means
the principle of conscious life; the vital principle in humans, animating the body or mediating between body and soul.
with the definition of soul being
the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part.
and while the feeling and thought part may have to do with the firing of synapses in the brain or something, we are not yet at a level of understanding that would make that a truly physical part of our body. Thinking as apart from doing seperating the mind\soul from the rest of the physical body.. along with the soul definition of..
an individual as characterized by a given attitude, disposition, character, action, etc.: A few brave spirits remained to face the danger.
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Now if we consider the spirit of God to simply be the spirit of desiring to be absolutely truthful and righteous (right thinking and doing) which sounds very buddhist I think, the only thing "super natural" about that is that our perception of truth and righteousness is not absolute in any way, but very subjective, however I believe many of us strive as much as we can for absolute truth and righteousness or god.
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I believe that all atheists are really offended by is the idea that some religious people think their perception of God is the absolute true god and thus everyone else must abide by what they claim is his Godly instruction or face eternal damnation.
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Having said that, it is not too far of from my own perception of the god concept.
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Indeed we all have our own perception of absolute truth and if we do not obey that truth it will result in neurosis and psychosis based on feelings of guilt , paranoia, low self esteem, and the like for not being the person we truly believe we should be.
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In pauls letter to the Romans chapters 7 and 8, he describes this predicament of not being able to do the things we want to do and doing things we dont really want to. And here is where the seperation of the spirit of God comes from our human spirit. Paul says if I am doing things I do not want to do then it is not me doing them but something else within me. Who will free me from this thing.
Then the psychologist Jesus comes along and says first you must get rid of the fears that stop you from being true to what you believe, that means having faith that the consequences of doing the right thing is worth doing the right thing. You must have faith that you can be free from the guilt and shame of your past wrong doing.
Now you come closer to this spirit of doing the true and right thing or god.
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It is the absoluteness of god that seperates us from following this spirit of truth and righteousness, and even that part of truth and righteousness we can see can be driven away from us by fear of the consequences of acting on it.
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As I read the heirarchy of human needs as outlined by Maslow I saw that in order top meet our higher needs of love and self actualization, we had to sacrifice our baser needs of food shelter and security. How do you express love without giving of what you have and opening up yourself to the dangers involved in being loving and compassionate. Even the boy scouts shake with their left hand, signifying the laying down of their sheild to form an alliance in the "spirit: of friendship and cooperation.
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So while god in a sense deals with the natural spirit of mans higher nature, his absoluteness of truth and righteousness is still far from our ability to posess even with this higher nature but even further from our baser nature that seeks food shelter and security, the seeking after will often cause us to do harn to other humans if we "fear" they are a "threat" to our own security of existence.
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I hope some have grasped a bit more clearly who or what god is, at least to me from my reply.
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Actually God is much more than this to me but that would need further clarification, as it deals with the personification needed to make the desire for absolute truth greater than the fear of the consequences of acting according to the revelation of that truth to me.
Rest assured this means doing only good to others as opposed to what some religious people have done in the name of their god or perception of truth and righteousness.