Incorrect. People don't come de facto with spirit.
The Missoulian is a liberal rag.
It's a college town that just got rid of the Global Humanities and religious studies completely next year… so.
John 14:26
But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in My name, will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I have told you.
So we are born with a spirit that entered into and killed out souls…
The Parable of Moses said we ate from a prohibited tree.
Completely incorrect.
If you do ever receive the Spirit… it's simplicity will amaze you so will it's ability to lay bare the teachings of Jesus with such simplicity.
And you will also find the water over which the spirit of God moves.
Spritual darkness infests our hearts, gives birth to our ego (separation from God), and causes us to die.
The spirit is the veil render… banishing the darkness so the Light of God and enter into our hearts and set us free from death and ego.
This is why We receive new names for the old man is gone.. and the Child of God is born.
The spirit we are born with is dark…. it is the subtlest fabric of the universe… it is a slave to cause and conditions which is why everything dies….
The Light is eternal… free from cause.
It is true that the only thing real is The Light of God.
But we have wrapped our souls in death.
We have shrouded ourselves in illusion.. the Light blazes around us…. it is everywhere but the darkness does not comprehend it.
It is a parable.
The original Sin is disobeying God.
Until Jesus made the sacrifice Humans were prohibited….
So says this parable.
Do you think Jesus was instructing how to live forever or not?
What causes us to live forever?
The Tree of Life not the Tree of Death.
Good day to you as well.
This is why Jesus taught to not cast pearls… because of you.
You stick to your truth… I'll blossom in mine.
And Jehovah God saith, 'Lo, the man was as one of Us, as to the knowledge of good and evil; and now, lest he send forth his hand, and have taken also of the tree of life, and eaten, and lived to the age,' –
but whoever may drink of the water that I will give him, may not thirst – to the age; and the water that I will give him shall become in him a well of water, springing up to life age-during.'
While they were eating, Jesus took bread, spoke a blessing and broke it, and gave it to the disciples, saying, “Take and eat; this is My body.” 27Then He took the cup, gave thanks and gave it to them, saying, “Drink from it, all of you.…
12 The next day as they were leaving Bethany, Jesus was hungry. 13 Seeing in the distance a fig tree in leaf, he went to find out if it had any fruit. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves, because it was not the season for figs. 14 Then he said to the tree, “May no one ever eat fruit from you again.” And his disciples heard him say it.
15 On reaching Jerusalem, Jesus entered the temple courts and began driving out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers and the benches of those selling doves, 16 and would not allow anyone to carry merchandise through the temple courts. 17 And as he taught them, he said, “Is it not written: ‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’[a]? But you have made it ‘a den of robbers.’[b]”
18 The chief priests and the teachers of the law heard this and began looking for a way to kill him, for they feared him, because the whole crowd was amazed at his teaching.
19 When evening came, Jesus and his disciples[c] went out of the city.
20 In the morning, as they went along, they saw the fig tree withered from the roots. 21 Peter remembered and said to Jesus, “Rabbi, look! The fig tree you cursed has withered!”
22 “Have faith in God,” Jesus answered. 23 “Truly[d] I tell you, if anyone says to this mountain, ‘Go, throw yourself into the sea,’ and does not doubt in their heart but believes that what they say will happen, it will be done for them. 24 Therefore I tell you, whatever you ask for in prayer, believe that you have received it, and it will be yours. 25 And when you stand praying, if you hold anything against anyone, forgive them, so that your Father in heaven may forgive you your sins.”