Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Mark 6:7 And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;
Many years ago, when I was in college I thought I saw Jesus in the dormitory of my fraternity house. I don't recall seeing the stigmata so, I'm not sure it was Him. Anyway, lately I've been more open to the subtle supernatural. For example; a few days ago was the solemnity of Our Lady of Loreto. The Holy Family's house transported from Nazareth to Italy by angels??? Well guess what I do for a living. Build houses in a factory, transport them and "fly" them into place, with use of a crane. Naturally, I order a copy of the Tiepolo painting of this event to display in my sales lobby.
While it's true that the word "rabbit" brings up different personal and cultural associations for each person, a rabbit is still a rabbit. So it's both.
The therapy book sounds very intriguing but also possibly nuts. Silicon valley people calling UFOs to visit them or infusing their sons' blood or trying to upload their personalities into computers are nuts. The problem with the supernatural is not that it doesn't exist (it does, and our culture is mostly blind to it) but that madness also exists. I think that because we are blind to it as a culture, when supernatural good or evil or neutral makes itself seen or heard or experienced, most of us have no idea how to take it--and, paradoxically, we are also oddly vulnerable to induced madness (ie: being convinced by others, or by a fever dream of your own, that you can become immortal by blood transfusions, that you have an "inside" that's a different "gender" from your body, or that you have an "internal family" of personalities).
Could it be that “spirit” and “breath” really do mean both things at the same time, that the supernatural (spiritual) really does dwell within the natural?
Could it be that this natural world has its very existence from a Life within?
And could it be that the Word of God as it exists in this natural world is actually a living document whose great power lies in its co-respondence to spiritual realities, and even God Himself? That might explain the correspondence of “spirit“ and “ breath.“
Could it be that the Lord‘s Second Coming will be a revelation of that correspondence? …a true coming in Spirit?
Ephesians 6:12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
Mark 6:7 And he called unto him the twelve, and began to send them forth by two and two; and gave them power over unclean spirits;
We have the power to command unclean spirits too
Many years ago, when I was in college I thought I saw Jesus in the dormitory of my fraternity house. I don't recall seeing the stigmata so, I'm not sure it was Him. Anyway, lately I've been more open to the subtle supernatural. For example; a few days ago was the solemnity of Our Lady of Loreto. The Holy Family's house transported from Nazareth to Italy by angels??? Well guess what I do for a living. Build houses in a factory, transport them and "fly" them into place, with use of a crane. Naturally, I order a copy of the Tiepolo painting of this event to display in my sales lobby.
While it's true that the word "rabbit" brings up different personal and cultural associations for each person, a rabbit is still a rabbit. So it's both.
The therapy book sounds very intriguing but also possibly nuts. Silicon valley people calling UFOs to visit them or infusing their sons' blood or trying to upload their personalities into computers are nuts. The problem with the supernatural is not that it doesn't exist (it does, and our culture is mostly blind to it) but that madness also exists. I think that because we are blind to it as a culture, when supernatural good or evil or neutral makes itself seen or heard or experienced, most of us have no idea how to take it--and, paradoxically, we are also oddly vulnerable to induced madness (ie: being convinced by others, or by a fever dream of your own, that you can become immortal by blood transfusions, that you have an "inside" that's a different "gender" from your body, or that you have an "internal family" of personalities).
Never knowing what Andrew will say, I thought he was going to refer to the Twilight Zone episode "To Serve Man".
"A rabbit is a rabbit, even to someone careless enough to be French." LOLOLOLOL
Love this
Bloody french.
You do speak it.
Could it be that “spirit” and “breath” really do mean both things at the same time, that the supernatural (spiritual) really does dwell within the natural?
Could it be that this natural world has its very existence from a Life within?
And could it be that the Word of God as it exists in this natural world is actually a living document whose great power lies in its co-respondence to spiritual realities, and even God Himself? That might explain the correspondence of “spirit“ and “ breath.“
Could it be that the Lord‘s Second Coming will be a revelation of that correspondence? …a true coming in Spirit?
I was wondering when someone would bring up Poetic Diction.