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Do animals have spirit?

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I have two Italian Greyhounds, here's a picture of them:

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Are these animals just lumps of matter or is there something more to them? Is it only people that are not lumps of matter?

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William wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 3:23 pm [Replying to onewithhim in post #88]

Is the Energy intelligent?
Is life?


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.
Something that is alive "has" life ...something that was alive "had" life .... something that is not alive "has" no life.
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.

* as in breath of life

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Is the Energy intelligent?
Is life?
What is your answer then?

Energy is intelligent?
Energy is not intelligent?

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William wrote: Sun Jul 03, 2022 3:23 pm [Replying to onewithhim in post #88]

Is the Energy intelligent?
Is POWER intelligent?

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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 intelligent?
Is Power Life?
Is Life Energy?
Is Energy intelligent?

What is your answer?

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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 intelligent?
Is Power Life?
Is Life Energy?
Is Energy intelligent?

What is your answer?
Jehovah'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.

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Jehovah's energy, so to speak, imparts life to the person or animal, in fact, all living things.
Is the Energy intelligent?

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William wrote: Wed Jul 06, 2022 1:11 pm [Replying to onewithhim in post #95]
Jehovah's energy, so to speak, imparts life to the person or animal, in fact, all living things.
Is the Energy intelligent?
No.

God is the intelligence behind the Spirit.

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onewithhim wrote: Thu Jul 07, 2022 10:33 pm
William wrote: Wed Jul 06, 2022 1:11 pm [Replying to onewithhim in post #95]
Jehovah's energy, so to speak, imparts life to the person or animal, in fact, all living things.
Is the Energy intelligent?
No.

God is the intelligence behind the Spirit.
Why separate GOD from Spirit?

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William wrote: Thu Jul 07, 2022 11:24 pm Why separate GOD from Spirit?
Here is the biblical definition of what God "is":

John 4:24 wrote:
God is a Spirit: . . . :D

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William wrote: Thu Jul 07, 2022 11:24 pm
onewithhim wrote: Thu Jul 07, 2022 10:33 pm
William wrote: Wed Jul 06, 2022 1:11 pm [Replying to onewithhim in post #95]
Jehovah's energy, so to speak, imparts life to the person or animal, in fact, all living things.
Is the Energy intelligent?
No.

God is the intelligence behind the Spirit.
Why separate GOD from Spirit?
I haven't separated them. The Spirit comes directly from God.

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