ur spirits are finite, and alive while we are, and reside only in our bodies, like in our minds, and are our inspiration and imagination or something - nothing critical salvivic: that's all.
So you see our spirit as being something different than our mind? A totally separate entity?
Tom we already went through this together. You seem to know alot about this area, so why don't you tell us(in a summary and in your own words) exactly how you see :
1. the spirit of God,
2. the Spirit of Man, and
3. the Holy Spirit?
4. Mind of Man
5. The differences between Mind and Spirit of man?
6. Anything else to enlighten us.
For our convenience, I am bringing here some Hebrew words and references to Spirit and Mind.
If we look at the word "Spirit" in the OT, 90% use the hebrew words
Ruash to describe the spirit of God, men, and animals. Even
Ruash is used as "Mind".
If we look at the word "Mind" in the OT, it is predominently used to describe the "soul", the "heart" and the "spirit" of man.
SPIRIT is used over 250 times in the OT...232x with Hebrew word
ruash --- H2131 -- This word is mostly used as spirit :(breath of man or animals) or Spirit of God or Spirit of man.
Ruash -- H2131 -- used 378 times in 348 versesAV — Spirit or spirit 232, wind 92, breath 27, side 6,
mind 5, blast 4, vain 2, air 1, anger 1, cool 1, courage 1, misc 6
1) wind, breath, mind, spirit
..a) breath
..b) wind
....1) of heaven
....2) quarter (of wind), side
....3) breath of air
....4) air, gas
....5) vain, empty thing
..c) spirit (as that which breathes quickly in animation or agitation)
....1) spirit, animation, vivacity, vigour
....2) courage
....3) temper, anger
....4) impatience, patience
....5) spirit, disposition (as troubled, bitter, discontented)
....6) disposition (of various kinds), unaccountable or uncontrollable impulse
....7) prophetic spirit
..d) spirit (of the living, breathing being in man and animals)
....1) as gift, preserved by God, God's spirit, departing at death, disembodied being
..e) spirit (as seat of emotion)
....1) desire
....2) sorrow, trouble
..f) spirit
....1) as seat or organ of mental acts
....2) rarely of the will
....3) as seat especially of moral character
..g)
Spirit of God, the third person of the triune God, the Holy Spirit, coequal, coeternal with the Father and the Son
....1) as inspiring ecstatic state of prophecy
....2) as impelling prophet to utter instruction or warning
....3) imparting warlike energy and executive and administrative power
....4) as endowing men with various gifts
This very same word, ruwash, is used to describe man's and God's spirit.
Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Gen 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also [is] flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.
Gen 7:15 And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh, wherein [is] the breath of life.
Gen 7:22 All in whose nostrils [was] the breath of life, of all that [was] in the dry [land], died.
Gen 41:8 And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but [there was] none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.
Gen 41:38 And Pharaoh said unto his servants, Can we find [such a one] as this [is], a man in whom the Spirit of God [is]?
Gen 26:35 Which were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.
Exd 6:9 And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.
Num 5:14 And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:
Eze 2:2 And the spirit entered into me when he spake unto me, and set me upon my feet, that I heard him that spake unto me.
Eze 37:1 The hand of the LORD was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the LORD, and set me down in the midst of the valley which [was] full of bones,
...12x with Hebrew word leb -- H3820 -- This word is mostly used as the Heart of man.
...15x .............Nephesh -- H5315 -- ............................... Soul of man.
....5x ................Ruash -- H7307 -- ............................... Spirit of man.
....4x .........................H3824 -- ............................... Heart of man.
Mind = Heart : leb - H3820 -- used 593 times in 550 versesAV — heart 508, mind 12, midst 11, understanding 10, hearted 7, wisdom 6, comfortably 4, well 4, considered 2, friendly 2, kindly 2, stouthearted + 047 2, care + 07760 2, misc 21
1) inner man, mind(12x), will, heart(508x), understanding(10x)
..a) inner part, midst
....1) midst (of things)
....2) heart (of man)
....3) soul, heart (of man)
....4) mind, knowledge, thinking, reflection, memory
....5) inclination, resolution, determination (of will)
....6) conscience
....7) heart (of moral character)
....8) as seat of appetites
....9) as seat of emotions and passions
....10) as seat of courage
Num 16:28 And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the LORD hath sent me to do all these works; for [I have] not [done them] of mine own mind.
Deu 28:65 And among these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest: but the LORD shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind:
2Ch 24:4 And it came to pass after this, [that] Joash was minded to repair the house of the LORD.
Isa 46:8 Remember this, and shew yourselves men: bring [it] again to mind, O ye transgressors.
Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man [was] great in the earth, and [that] every imagination of the thoughts of his heart [was] only evil continually.
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Nephesh - h5315 - used 753 times in 683 versesAV — soul 475, life 117, person 29, mind 15, heart 15, creature 9, body 8, himself 8, yourselves 6, dead 5, will 4, desire 4, man 3, themselves 3, any 3, appetite 2, misc 47
1) soul(475x), self, life(117x), creature, person(29x), appetite, mind(15x), living being, desire, emotion, passion
..a) that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man
..b) living being
..c) living being (with life in the blood)
..d) the man himself, self, person or individual
..e) seat of the appetites
..f) seat of emotions and passions
..g) activity of mind
....1) dubious
..h) activity of the will
....1) dubious
..i) activity of the character
....1) dubious
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Gen 34:8 And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
Gen 46:22 These [are] the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls [were] fourteen.
Gen 23:8 And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
Eze 23:28 For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will deliver thee into the hand [of them] whom thou hatest, into the hand [of them] from whom thy mind is alienated:
