@Pierac ~
I’m not Catholic. I know Catholics, I know what ‘they’ say applies to them, as “Catholics”, what they believe, what they do and do not do. And read on this forum utter nonsense some of them teach and preach.
I learn knowledge from Scriptures. I appeal to God for understanding of His Word in Scripture He instituted and approved.
Mankind was “created” and “made”.....<—- two different things.
The body, (form, flesh & bones) was “created” from the elements of the Earth, and handy, since the Earth is mans Habitat, and the elements IN the Earth sustain our body’s.
Then after the body, was ‘created’ the body was “made”... in Gods likeness...
Gen 1:
[
26] And God said, Let
us make man in our image, after
our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
US? OUR? OUR?
Us, our, our, IS a plural reference....to ONE God.
The Making of ONE man....with a plural LIKENESS...
* THAT Notifies you, there is more to the ONE God, and more to ONE man, than simply a body of Flesh & Bones.
* IF you continue following the knowledge...you can chart what APPLIES to ONE man...(something you CAN SEE and comprehend)....and Learn much ABOUT the ONE Unseen God.
Men have BODY’s...Flesh, bones, organs, tissue, muscle, etc. that all work together for the body to function. The body once brought into an individual living state (born, no longer dependent on another human).... it has it’s OWN LIFE....called BLOOD....hum...God has His OWN LIFE.
Gods blows his breath into the nostrils of a man....and what is that man then?
A living soul. What is that soul CALLED? It is called by the NAME of that body. A Name given that body by father/mother.
What did that breath of life soul do for that Individual?
...eyes that could not see.....can now see.
...ears that could not hear....can now hear.
...nose that could not smell...can now smell.
...tongue that could not taste...can now taste.
...flesh that could not feel touch...can now feel touch.
...mind that could not think..........can now think and process sight, hearing, smelling, tasting, touching.
And WHO exactly does that soul BELONG TO? God.
Ezek 18:
[
4] Behold,
all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
What broadly IS GOD?
John 4:
[
24]
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
Any doubt the God desires His created and made men to WORSHIP HIM?
John 4:
[
24] God is a Spirit: and
they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
IS man A spirit? No.
Does man HAVE A spirit? Yes.
Where is the spirit of a man? IN him.
Where specifically? IN his heart. (The very organ that keeps the mans LIFE, ie BLOOD, pumping/ moving/ sustaining the body’s LIFE)
* All mens body’s shall die. God requires it. (Gen. 9:5)
1 Cor 2:
[
11] For what man
knoweth the things of a man, save the
spirit of man which is
in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
Here you are notified, your spirit...KNOWS things.
How do you KNOW your spirit, that KNOWS things, IS
IN YOUR HEART?
Rom 10:
[
8] But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and
in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach;
[
9] That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt
believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.
John 4:
[
24] God is a Spirit: and
they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.
The spirit of man is in his heart, the truth of man is in his spirit, in his heart.
WHEN a man is worshiping God, or accepting Gods offering of Salvation, the mans worshiping or confession of (heartful belief)....must be the mans TRUE heartful Confession............OPPOSED to what “other” option? Confession of the mind.....WHY not the MIND?
Rom 8:
[
7] Because
the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.
ONE man, clearly has A BODY, A SOUL, A SPIRIT....
....men CAN SEE another mans BODY.
....men CAN NOT SEE another mans SOUL or SPIRIT.
ONE God, clearly IS SPIRIT, HAS A SOUL.......and HIS BODY?
...men CAN NOT SEE GODS SPIRIT.
...men CAN NOT SEE GODS SOUL.
...men CAN NOT SEE GODS BODY.
Head scratcher...what does Gods BODY LOOK LIKE?
WELL....CAN the ALL supreme powerful God, APPEAR in a FORM of His choosing, for mankind to SEE something, to KNOW they are IN THE Presence of God? Yes.
LIKE YOU, Gods own word is .... oh ya...IN HIS MOUTH.
Isa 55:
[
11] So shall
my word be that
goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper
in the thing whereto I sent it.
Do you know the THING, where to God SENT His word? Virgin womb of a woman betrothed to a man OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID!
(Luke 1:27)
Importance of the HOUSE OF DAVID? Only a LEGAL heir of HOUSE of DAVID can sit on king David’s Everlasting throne of king David’s Everlasting kingdom.)
(2 Samuel 7:16)
Do you know where that BODY came from? (From God IN Heaven).
Heb 10:
[
5] Wherefore
when he cometh into the world, he saith, Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but
a body hast Thou prepared me:
Heb 1:
[
3] Who being the brightness of his glory, and
the express image of his person, and upholding all things by the word of his power, when he had by himself purged our sins, sat down on the right hand of the Majesty on high;
Remember what God SENT forth out of HIS mouth, HIS word, in the LIKENESS as a man...
His WORD IS HE, sent in a body God prepared, for men to SEE and HEAR Him.
John 1:
[
1] In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and
the Word was God.
John 8:
[
42] Jesus said unto them, If God were your Father, ye would love me: for I proceeded
forth and came from God; neither came I of myself, but he sent me.
John 16:
[
28] I came
forth from the Father, and am come into the world: again, I leave the world, and go to the Father.
[
30] Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest
forth from God.
John 10:
[
30]
I and my Father are one.
1 Thes 5:
[
23] And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God
your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Can’t say for you....but the wholeness of me; IS:
ONE man.....am a body, have a soul, have a spirit
IN my spirit is my truth.
Being in the likeness of God......
I have no issue that God is SPIRIT, has a SOUL, has a BODY.
Gods SPIRIT IS His light and His Glory and His Supreme Power.
Gods Power IS CALLED “Christ”...(1 Cor 1:24) called Jesus..called the Word of God, called the begotten Son of God, who came forth out from God, manifested in a body God prepared, to SEEK the lost of ISRAEL, reconcile them BACK unto God, AND provide us with TEACHER (PAUL) learned through the Spirit of God, to SEEK the GENTILES, that they may BECOME ALSO ‘WITH” the Lord God Almighty.
I have no confusion of with all the scriptures identifying Jesus the Christ, as God in the FLESH, for mens eyes to see, and mens ears to heart, the Great Truths of God and receive unto every willing mans Heart, the great Gift of Salvation God has Offered mankind....
Forgiveness for having HAD unbelief.
Forgiveness for corrupting their soul.
Restoration of their soul.
Quickening of their spirit.
Promise of resurrecting their corrupt body, into a glorified uncorruptable body.
WE, US, OUR....restored in the likeness of .... HIM, they, our, us....
The Great Lord (Son) God (Father) Spirt (Almighty Power)
This is brief. Many more Scriptures exclusively use terms ... regarding Jesus, regarding Christ, that ONLY Apply to the ONE God.
Glory to God,
Taken