For contexts where the
Spirit of God or the spirit of man can be synonymous with mind please see the
following;
Romans 8:27 And he
that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is
the mind of the Spirit,
because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.
1Corinthians 2:16
For who hath known the mind of
the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.
Ephesians 4:23 And
be renewed in the spirit of your mind;
Philippians 1:27
Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that
whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that
ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the
faith of the gospel;
2Timothy 1:7 For God
hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and
of love, and of a sound mind.
Man is composed of these three parts.
1Thessalonians
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.
Proverbs 20:27 The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD,
searching all the inward parts of the belly.
Job 19:2 How long will ye vex my soul, and break me in
pieces with words?
The higher animals, those capable of self-consciousness and
recognizing their individual identity apart from others, are composed of these
three parts.
Numbers 31:28 And levy a tribute unto the LORD of the men
of war which went out to battle: one soul of five hundred, both of the persons,
and of the beeves, and of the asses, and of the sheep:
Job 12:10 In whose hand is the soul of every living
thing, and the breath of all mankind.
Ecclesiastes 3:21 Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth
upward, and the spirit of the beast that goeth downward to the earth?
God, as well, is composed of these three parts.
Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations,
baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy
Ghost:
2Corinthians
13:14 The grace of the Lord Jesus
Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you
all. Amen.
1John 5:7 For there are three that bear record in
heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost: and these three are one.
God the Father, as He is referred to specifically in verses
like Matthew 11:27 and Romans 6:4 and implied in verses like Acts 3:13 and
Galatians 4:4, is the soul of God, the seat of will and self-identity.
Psalm 11:5 The LORD trieth the righteous: but the wicked
and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.
God has a Spirit, His very mind which knows and interacts
with His creation.
Genesis 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.
The Bible calls Him the Holy Ghost and the active agency by
which He operates inside of each believer and in the world, Spirit, is referred
to by the neutral pronoun.
John 14:26 But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost,
whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things, and bring
all things to your remembrance, whatsoever I have said unto you.
Romans 8:16 The Spirit itself beareth witness with our
spirit, that we are the children of God..
We are often unable to distinguish the fine difference
between the Holy Ghost and the Holy Spirit (used only once in Luke 11:13 with
Holy capitalized as well as Spirit) because of the Roman Catholic church’s use
of the Latin word, Spiritus, for both words, while English has the subtle
variation of language to provide us with two words, ghost and spirit,
translated from the same Greek word but with a slightly different meaning based
on context and usage.
In another subtle and on the surface difficult-to-understand
manner the Bible uses, spirit, with a lowercase s to refer to God’s wisdom which
proceeds from God the Father, not a reference to the distinct Spirit of God,
uppercase S. Let me repeat that these distinctions are not absolute and have
overlaps. Don’t get into the modernist’s error of viewing the Bible as you
would the manual to your car. It is more like a conversation with God as He
reveals His ministry of reconciling mankind to Himself, or at least that part
of mankind that will be reconciled to Him.
Job 26:13 By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens;
his hand hath formed the crooked serpent.
1Samuel 10:10 And when they came thither to the hill,
behold, a company of prophets met him; and the Spirit of God came upon him, and
he prophesied among them.
The Lord Jesus Christ is the physical incarnation of God on
earth.
John 14:9 Jesus saith unto him, Have I been so long
time with you, and yet hast thou not known me, Philip? he that hath seen me
hath seen the Father; and how sayest thou then, Shew us the Father?
Colossians 1:15 Who is the image of the invisible God, the
firstborn of every creature:
Hebrews 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;
These three parts of God are one individual capable, unlike
us or the higher animals as we physically die when one of our component parts
separates from the others, of operating independently of each other but with
one intent, one will, and one purpose.
Deuteronomy 6:4 Hear, O Israel: The LORD our God is one LORD…
John 10:30 I and my Father are one.
With Jesus Christ as the, Son of God, with a capital S, you have God in the flesh coming with
the same authority as God the Father. In the ancient world the son was
coproprietor with his father of all of the father’s property and indeed it was
his religious responsibility to receive his inheritance. The son, if dutiful
and obedient not only to his father but to his religious context, was the same
as his father in many ways. For Jesus to be the Son of God He must be equal
with God the Father. As the son would offer up worship and maintain a testimony
of his deceased father’s divinity as one of the familiar spirits or lars
familiaris of the family, Jesus, as the Son, was not only equal to His
eternally living Father but bore testimony of Him to mankind. Jesus as the Son
of God was not only God’s representative but showed mankind the Father.
John 5:18 Therefore the Jews sought the more to kill
him, because he not only had broken the sabbath, but said also that God was his
Father, making himself equal with God.
Philippians 2:5 Let this mind be in you, which was also in
Christ Jesus: 6 Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with
God: 7 But made himself of no
reputation, and took upon him the form of a servant, and was made in the
likeness of men: 8 And being found in
fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the
death of the cross. 9 Wherefore God also
hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which is above every name:
10 That at the name of Jesus every knee
should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the
earth; 11 And that every tongue should
confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.
Finally, it is Jesus Christ by whom all things were created,
as the Bible will say clearly in the next verse.
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