I think she means the Holy Spirit. Christ united fallen humanity with divinity, by assuming our sinful nature and always submitting to the Father's will, allowing the Holy Spirit to dwell in Him at all times.

Elle, here's something W. W. Prescott wrote which may be of interest.

To help us better understand each other, let's define some terminology. I understand their's lots of variation of these definition, but just to lay out some common ground to proceed in defining between spirits :

Soul : - Body(all physical aspects) + Man's Spirit.

Or Man can be define as : Body + Spirit + Soul (1 Tim 5:3)

Living Soul : - Man + God's breath (Gen 2:7)

Let's define the different Spirits:

1. Man's Spirit : Man has it's own spirit where affection, emotion, will, desires, etc... seats

2. Satan's and Evil Angels Spirits : They are spirits that influence us.

3. Godhead Spirit's : Jesus is a seperate person from the Father, and both possess their own Spirit. Both of their Spirit are Divine.

4. Holy Spirit : Let restrict this definition as God's Spirit that animates all living creatures which is refered as the "breath of God". It is also a "Divine spirit" and is a seperate entity from man's spirit.

Coming back in understanding each other and EGW's quote:

Q1 : Do you agree that Jesus was a man and being as such possessed his own spirit? (Which is apart and seperate entity from the Holy Spirit's and from the Father's Spirit.)

Q2 : Do you believe that Jesus' Divine spirit that He possessed before reincarnation, was no longer divine when incarnated?

Q3 : Can you clarify your understanding of Jesus' own Spirit when he became a man?

I think the "divine spirit" spoken of in the text you asked about is "the Holy Spirit" the third person of the Godhead.

Regarding your question, I think Jesus possessed his own spirit as a man, as we do. I don't believe Jesus Christ was reincarnated. Before His incarnation, I believe Jesus had His own "spirit," not "Spirit," and that spirit was a function of his mind, the things you spoke of, affections, emotions, etc."

I agree with "Jesus possessed his own spirit as a man". I'm reluctant to agree to the "as we do". Up to now, I'm more lenient to believe that Jesus' spirit was divine, however his faculties(brain) was just "as we do".

My typo mistake, and I too don't believe Jesus was reincarnated. I meant incarnated here. However you didn't answer the question, nor in your answer of #Q3. I have rephrased the question.. see #Q4 below.

Ok, however, you haven't answer the question so we can understand each other. I'm trying to understand if you believe Jesus' spirit on earth was divine or not. This question was for you to expand on that concept if my Q2 didn't do the trick. So let me rephrase the question:

Q4 : Is Jesus' spirit, while being on earth before his ressurection, divine or not?

To clarify Q4, I'm not referring to the Holy Spirit, nor the Father's Spirit dwelling in Jesus at that time, but Jesus' spirit as a man on earth?

Jesus was both divine and human. As a human being, his spirit was human, like ours. As God, he had a spirit.



I answered the question by saying I didn't believe Jesus was reincarnated.



As a man, His spirit was human. As God, His spirit was divine. But I would still call it "spirit" not "Spirit." "Spirit" would refer to the Holy Spirit.



Jesus' spirit as a man was human, just as His human mind was human, and His human body was human. His divine mind was divine, and His divine spirit was divine. If you simply say "Jesus' spirit" without any sort of qualification (such as, for example, Jesus Christ in His divinity, or Jesus Christ as God) this would be understood as Jesus' human spirit.

Jesus set aside the prerogatives of divinity, and lived as a man, totally dependent upon His Father. His divine attributes were acquiescent, so when we speak of His mind, or spirit, or whatever, it's His human whatever that we have in mind, in general.