Why Is There Such A Special Relation Between Faith And Human Spirit And Body?
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Because God made us that way.\n\nWe we do things on our own, we suffer.\n\nWhen we get close to Him, we are blessed.
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Maybe because of a belief in god and the ultimate wisdom of one god.  Any faith usually helps people cope with death.  Because when there are mysteries like this, faith helps.  A community of friends (temple etc.) can be a support system.  A ritual (funeral) helps people cope.  It is a path one can use.
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Hebrews.11:1 says "Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen."\n\nYou can't get a better definition than that. It means faith is real, its almost as if you can touch it (substance), yet it is not physical. It is based on hope which means it is in the future.\n\nIt is an evidence (proof) for what you have believed. \n\nFor example, you ask God for a child, you don't have the child yet, you are not even pregnant, you might not even have a womb or maybe your womb is damaged, but faith tells you you can have it(John.15:16), you can have it because God told you in His word you won't be barren (Exo.23:26, Isaiah.54:1-3), that he would heal you even if you were sick (Exo.15:26), that you will be fruitful (Gen.1:28). Believing so much in these words to the extent that if someone was to ask you where is the child you are believing God for? and you can present God's words to them as evidence that God will eventually answer you, that is faith.
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It's all got to do with politics, personal preferences, spiritual convictions, and the like.  I agree that we make too much of the differences, and that we should accept one another as Christian brothers and sisters without insisting that the other Christians believe just like we do.  There are going to be a whale of a lot of Christians who stand before God's throne, look around at all the others and wonder how they all got there.  Humans tend to think that since we're normal, everyone else who is normal will be like us.  This carries over into our Christian beliefs and practices, unfortunately.  \n\nI think the Apostle Paul covered it very well when he spoke of the different parts of the body with their individual functions that still make up one Body.  If a lung looked at a knee, the lung would think there was something seriously wrong with the knee.  That hard bit in the middle (the bone) for instance: if a lung had a hard bit like that, it would be seriously ill.  The knee looks at the lung and can't figure out how it survives with no bones to support it.  Yet both are exactly as God has designed them to be.\n\nYes, we do serve the same God and His Son in many different ways.  I think we need to get over ourselves, concentrate on Him instead, and love one another.  \n\n...ok, I'll get off my soapbox now....
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They are different, Spirit is of course the Spirit of man, Soul is the Body and the spirit together.
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You are absolutely right.   But that is what it requires.  This might sound like a silly answer, but that is what religion or spirituality is based on.... faith, if you don't have it, then what do yo believe in?  But it doesn't really matter, because we should all respect each other no matter what our beliefs are.
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United in One Spirit points towards the idea that all Christians, true Christians, are united and together.  Paul, to the Corinthians, uses the idea of a body.  We are the body of Christ.  The eye cannot operate alone and it needs the head.  The body needs the legs.  We all need each other and belong to God, the One Holy Spirit.  Also it's the Holy Spirit that binds us all and adopts us into the Heavenly Family.  We are all connected and are one family.  \n\nYou've heard of one country under God; well, you can say that we are one Family under God.
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Dear Bruno cs:  We generally recognize that we seemingly have two parts of Mind inside of ourselves.  One we tend to think of as the human Intellect - our human awareness or consciousness.  \n\nMany of us also recognize that something else seems to exist within us - which is our spirit or soul.\n\nI see both parts as my singular Self.  In the physical world we use a human thing called Intellect, to learn of the world we find ourselves in.  But, I experience my soul/spirit as guiding me to Thoughts that are sublime, transcendent and morally higher than what my Intellect perceives and offers to me.  And, so I perceive that both parts exist within me.\n\nSince all earthly things have emanated from the All Knowledge of something greater than humans, I have determined that something greater must be the Absolute Knowledge of Spirit.  The first Spirit is - as I contemplate it - the Creator - whether or not it Created the physical world.  What it DID Create is more of it's Self - other Spirit-Minds.\n\nI see the physical body as a home or temple for the Spirit that I am - the Altar in this temple of my flesh - is my soul or Spirit-being.  The flesh is temporal and ages and withers.  It experiences a death.  HOWEVER, body is an empty thing, an empty vessel  - without YOU operating it.\n\nSoul or Spirit is eternal.  When Jesus demonstrated the Resurrection, he showed a re-appearance of body and a continuation of it - for as long as he desired.  Did he demonstrate this as a special ability of his own?  Or, did he mean for it to demonstrate a Truth about each of us, and that he was similar to us?  I choose this latter sentence.\n\nEternal-ness is an attribute of Soul/Spirit.  I do not believe physical birth is a beginning.  It is a continuing of Soul/Spirit which was, originally, Created  -  not made (as in human procreation).\n\nI believe you canNOT die, even through Free Will, because the Creator of our true Self, Spirit, created in His Own Likeness and, therefore, Eternal-ness belongs to us.  Physical life is like a continuum. . .the Soul makes appearances ; through a process human Intellect accepts and has named procreation.\n\nWe do not die.\n\nBest regards, Lana
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Because humans need meaning.  We're not content to exist "in the wild", so we drew the animals we hunted on our caves, recorded our family history, created symbols.  Human invention and technology occurred not just to secure ourselves from the elements, but to create the framework for pursuing a fulfilling and meaningful life.  In other words, civilization. \n\nMeaning and faith are linked.  A more practical definition of faith is "trust".  Trust is as critical an element to humanity as the physical elements.  It is the currency of relationships and society.  All of us trust in a huge web of givens that provide a framework for our life and meaning.  Yet trust is "irrational"--it can't be measured physically, and often must be exercised despite evidence showing that an outcome is unreliable.  The vast majority of even physical realities aren't completely reliable and predictable and scientifically, much is still to be understood.  So trust and meaning are already a leap into the "unknown".  But we can't live without them.  This mystery leads us to the spiritual.\n\nNow, you say there's no evidence proving God's existence.  But there's a materialistic bias embedded in that statement, which is important because materialism doesn't account for trust and meaning. In fact, honest materialism pushed to its endpoint concludes that there is no meaning--which brings you back to square one, since that doesn't describe human existence.  Materialism is also a modern, western thing--where people have achieved an unprecedented amount of leisure, affluence and security.  \n\nHowever, the vast majority of the world historically and population-wise is religious, because for them, things are way more unreliable in life.  They live the reality that meaning and chaos are often a razor's edge from each other.  So it could be said that the materialistic bias is just a spoiled modern western viewpoint and the more primal and honest viewpoint is the religious one.  After all we have the luxury to question things where so many others must rely on a higher source of hope.  If you live in the kind of poverty and injustice that scars the face of most of the earth, you need a deeper hope for meaning than "self-actualization" :-).\n\nFinally, while there may be no physical evidence to prove God's existence, there is plenty of evidence about our existence that indicates the spiritual.  On the flip side, there isn't any physical evidence that disproves God's existence.  Ironically, in a human existence based around trust and  meaning, one could argue that the need to trust/believe in God is completely fitting.
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the following Wikipedia article links some studies.  Personally, I think that such a relation likely exists, but not due so much to greater intelligence of those without religion, but because a) academic institutions can be hostile toawrd people of faith, 2) non-religious people are more likely to seek divine purpose and meaning in academic pursuits, while religious people seek meaning from religious pursuits, and 3) intelligent/educated people are going to place more faith on the powers of human intellect than those who do not have such values.
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God is. Faith is the belief in God. After life is the reward for faith and believing in God.
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Because Believers are human too
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Life is more than meets the eyes. That is obvious. For some reason we are NOT to know more about the details. Probably because it is part of the plan. If we knew more it would alter our behaviour. This way humans develop to their true self. If the spirit they contain is that of the light it will go to the light. If they belong to the spirit of destruction they will inherit destruction. This way the "secrets of many hearts will become revealed". \nBUT (!) No human is to decide who belongs where. God forbade even to the angels -way ahead of us in the circle- to judge. Judgement is only God's. We are to love and help each other. And we are to gide those who have eares to hear to the light. If they are that of the light they will listen and become what they are: One with the light.\nPeace to you, friend!
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I'm with ya. It's RARE, but ever once in a while there is a "faith healing" of a real illness. Credit should go to the body's almost miraculous ability to heal itself, not God's intervention. Ironic don't you think, that for every "success" of faith healing, there are thousands of failures. These are usually blamed on the sufferer's lack of faith.......
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This is a great question.  The highest state in Christianity is similar to Moksha.  It is union with God.  When you become a Christian, the Holy Spirit comes and lives inside you - so we have God living within us.  Christianity teaches that when we are born, we are spiritually dead, but when we invite Jesus into our hearts we are "born again" - only it is a spiritual birth, not a physical birth - because the Holy Spirit comes to live inside us.\n\nThe bible also teaches that when Jesus returns his bride will be married to him.  Jesus's "bride" is the Church - that is everyone who believes in Jesus and truly follows him will be "married" to him.  So while we are on earth we are to be one with each other (the bible teaches that all Christians are different parts of one body - so that is why we must treat each other so lovingly, because we are all parts of the same body)  and then in heaven, we will be one with God.\n\nBut, we will not lose our identity or sense of self when we become one with God.  We will be truly one, yet we will retain our own wills and our own consciousness and identity.\n\nSo you can invite God into your heart today, and he will come and live inside you.  Then you can look forward to being united with God for all time after you die.  Check out the link!
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When he arose from the grave, He went to His disciples and they touched the scars on His hands. To me, I guess that means He was a human body. When he ascended to heaven, He was probably a man then too..not just a spirit. Don't take my word for it though. Just believe He died for you. :)
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My answer would be that it doesn't.\n\nOf course, some people get their strength from their theistic beliefs, but others get their strength from the love and trust that they share with the people in their life, some people get their strength from doing the right thing and contributing positively to society, and some people get their strength from a firm belief in the goodness of humankind.\n\nI guess it all depends on the individual.