19 Feb '06 11:51>
Originally posted by FreakyKBHO.K., so when we are born we don't have spirits, but the Holy Spirit dwells in us and runs proxy for our future spirits. Then, once we are saved, we get our own spirit where God dwells. So, is the spirit best construed as an immaterial substance ontologically distinct from the soul, or as a divine property of the immaterial soul? If the former, then I'm unclear as to what introspectively discernable difference there would be if your spirit was switched with the spirit of another Christian. What would feel different, from your perspective, if your spirit was switched with the spirit of another Christian?
Three in the morning there, and you want to get into this?
"The Word of God is alive and powerful, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing assunder of the soul and the spirit, and of the joints and the marrow, and is a critic of thoughts and intents of the heart."
Hebrews 4:12
The pattern of God's likeness is replicated in ma ...[text shortened]... itual status, experientially 'duking it out' with the sin nature, resident within the body.