I have two Italian Greyhounds, here's a picture of them:
Are these animals just lumps of matter or is there something more to them? Is it only people that are not lumps of matter?
Do animals have spirit?
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Re: Do animals have spirit?
Post #91Is life?William wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 3:23 pm [Replying to onewithhim in post #88]
Is the Energy intelligent?
We have folks here that seem to have a problem accepting the concept of life.
Perhaps that is why some think their parents created their life rather than passed on the life they already had ... in any case by answering the question: WHAT IS LIFE? (not what does it do, not what are Its properties, but what **IS** it? ...those that cannot distinguish between life and food (or life and procreation) may possibly begin to grasp the concept of the spirit*, for the two are effectively the same thing and quasi interchangeable.
Those that claim those sentences are "meaningless" are simply ignoring the most basic of obvervations even the staunchest philisophical materialists would be embarrassed to do. In secular language we say "alive"(ie with life), in biblical language we say "with spirit"; what is being described doesn't change because one says describes a phenonomen in a different language: both are describing an observable reality. The word LIFE has a meaning, we know this because regardless of the fact that it cannot be defined outside of its properties, man has spent millenia trying to recreate it.Something that is alive "has" life ...something that was alive "had" life .... something that is not alive "has" no life.
* as in breath of life
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Post #92[Replying to JehovahsWitness in post #91]
Energy is intelligent?
Energy is not intelligent?
Is the Energy intelligent?
What is your answer then?Is life?
Energy is intelligent?
Energy is not intelligent?
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Re: Do animals have spirit?
Post #93Is POWER intelligent?William wrote: ↑Sun Jul 03, 2022 3:23 pm [Replying to onewithhim in post #88]
Is the Energy intelligent?
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Post #94William: Is the Energy intelligent?
Jehovah's Witness: Is life?
William: What is your answer then?
Energy is intelligent?
Energy is not intelligent?
[Replying to onewithhim in post #93]
Is Life Energy?
Is Energy intelligent?
What is your answer?
Jehovah's Witness: Is life?
William: What is your answer then?
Energy is intelligent?
Energy is not intelligent?
[Replying to onewithhim in post #93]
Is Power Life?Is POWER intelligent?
Is Life Energy?
Is Energy intelligent?
What is your answer?
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Re: Do animals have spirit?
Post #95Jehovah's energy, so to speak, imparts life to the person or animal, in fact, all living things. His power/energy provides the breath of life to animate objects, people and animals foremost, as we are talking about them in particular.William wrote: ↑Tue Jul 05, 2022 10:56 pm William: Is the Energy intelligent?
Jehovah's Witness: Is life?
William: What is your answer then?
Energy is intelligent?
Energy is not intelligent?
[Replying to onewithhim in post #93]
Is Power Life?Is POWER intelligent?
Is Life Energy?
Is Energy intelligent?
What is your answer?
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Is the Energy intelligent?Jehovah's energy, so to speak, imparts life to the person or animal, in fact, all living things.
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Post #97No.William wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 1:11 pm [Replying to onewithhim in post #95]
Is the Energy intelligent?Jehovah's energy, so to speak, imparts life to the person or animal, in fact, all living things.
God is the intelligence behind the Spirit.
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Post #98Why separate GOD from Spirit?onewithhim wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 10:33 pmNo.William wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 1:11 pm [Replying to onewithhim in post #95]
Is the Energy intelligent?Jehovah's energy, so to speak, imparts life to the person or animal, in fact, all living things.
God is the intelligence behind the Spirit.
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Post #99Here is the biblical definition of what God "is":
John 4:24 wrote:
God is a Spirit: . . .
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Post #100I haven't separated them. The Spirit comes directly from God.William wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 11:24 pmWhy separate GOD from Spirit?onewithhim wrote: ↑Thu Jul 07, 2022 10:33 pmNo.William wrote: ↑Wed Jul 06, 2022 1:11 pm [Replying to onewithhim in post #95]
Is the Energy intelligent?Jehovah's energy, so to speak, imparts life to the person or animal, in fact, all living things.
God is the intelligence behind the Spirit.