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To: TXnMA; betty boop; Mark Felton; hosepipe; .30Carbine; xzins
This is a glorious, truly glorious, sidebar and I have soooo much to say - but alas, I must tend to chores and errands this afternoon. Perhaps this evening?

At any rate, I wanted to submit a thought concerning the four fundamental fields and Biblical metaphors - namely that the Scriptures refer to four winds - in some, the four winds of heaven and in others, the four winds of earth.

I meditating on whether "winds" wrt heaven is a metaphor for the four fundamental fields. Of course Biblical metaphors can also have multiple meanings. Here are two verses which come to mind, for your consideration:

And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. - Matthew 24:31

And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. - Revelation 7:21


96 posted on 08/08/2006 10:03:59 AM PDT by Alamo-Girl
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To: Alamo-Girl
According to Strongs the Chaldee for "wind" is "ruach" which translates as "mind, spirit, wind."
97 posted on 08/08/2006 10:20:25 AM PDT by Mark Felton ("Your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.")
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To: Alamo-Girl

BTW: The Holy Spirit resides within us, as man, when we accept Christ and become able to receive it , so I find it particularly interesting to find the word "ruach" to mean "mind" as well as spirit. (consider also the "soul", which is spirit in a way)

I also know that life did not begin randomly. There are forces behind everythging and it defintely required some, as yet unknown, force, to drive material to form into complex compounds/molecules that could perform the material functions of life, ands begin evolutionary processes.

We do not yet know how to detect or measure life force, but then we didnt know much about gravity not too long ago though we were immersed in it.

That same force which drives life to exist and evolve, was later complemented by a God given, spirit of the soul (mind), and even later the chosen people (thoe who accept Christ now) receive the blessings of the Holy spirit.

It is that spirit as well that lives on eternally after our material bodies expire.

I can believe there are at least 3 forces, spirits, associated with life, that we cannot yet measure scientifically.

But then, we cannot even prove scientifically that "love" exists, yet it is so fundamental to life, and to God.


98 posted on 08/08/2006 10:30:40 AM PDT by Mark Felton ("Your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.")
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To: Alamo-Girl
"And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.

3And God said, Let there be light: and there was light." --Genesis 1:2-3

The most fundamental packet of energy we know of is light, it is pure electromagnetic energy, yet it also has mass like properties.

In the beginning with the big bang we can image a universe filled with light only, (before the creation, condensation of matter) which is the only thing in nature we know to behave both like a particle of matter and/or a wave packet of energy.

So in a sense light has properties of both spirit and matter.

100 posted on 08/08/2006 10:45:38 AM PDT by Mark Felton ("Your faith should not be in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.")
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