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Originally posted by FetchmyjunkAre accumulatimg questions asked in this thread alone, or including your questions in the "factors affecting belief" thread or all your questions in all your hreads since April?
I ask you a question, you dodge it, then it's my turn to answer my own question? Nice try.
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I would say that "Spirituality" involves the human spirit.
Now many people assume by the human spirit I must mean pretty much the same thing as the human soul. But you have to get into the Bible to see that the soul of man and the spirit of man are seen as two distinct parts of man.
This distinction is gradually made more clear as the plan of salvation is made more clear though the books of the Bible.
It is not always clear to me in some passages. But it is abundantly clear in some crucial passages. For example we see Hebrews speaking of the division of soul and spirit -
" For the word of God is living and operative and sharper than any two-edged sword, and piercing even to the dividing of soul and spirit and of joints and marrow, and able to discern the thoughts and intents of the heart." (Hebrew 4:12)
By experience we get to understand that the soul of man and the spirit of man are kind of stuck together. But the word of God can so convict the conscience that the Christian can tell -
"Oh, this is just me. This is just my self, my soul."
"Oh, this is the Lord Jesus in me. This is God dwelling in my spirit."
There is a division of soul and spirit.
Now, For the non-Christian, the human conscience is involved in the spirit. So for the non-Christian I would say that "Spirituality" probably involves the human conscience.
Therefore, I think all men and women, so far as their conscience may be activated, approach Spirituality to some degree. The conscience is a function of the human spirit.
This is not a simple matter because there is such a thing as an over sensitive conscience too, IE. a conscience that convicts one's self wrongly and needlessly.