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To: hosepipe

“Thanks for the effort but Gregory Palamas does not answer my question to you either..
What is spirit/Spirit?..”

I didn’t think you’d understand +Gregory Palamas in the original (even in translation) so I chose Christou’s monograph. Seems you didn’t understand that either. The distinctions among soul, spirit and Spirit are laid out quite clearly there. You certainly are free not to accept the distinctions, but those are the ones made by the Orthodox Church and as such they are accepted by Orthodox Christians, like me. So...

“spirit” (pneuvma) is a vivifying element or power of the soul, along with nous and logos. These are all created elements.

“Spirit” (Pneuvma)is the “divine spirit” which is not a created element but rather an uncreated divine energy of our Triune God which we can receive.

Thus,

“Life to the body is granted by the human spirit and real life to the soul is granted by the divine spirit. That is why the abandonment of the soul by the vivifying divine spirit causes its spiritual death, just as the abandonment of the body by the vivifying human spirit causes its physical death. The soul, when removed from God, only technically preserves its immortality.”


14,057 posted on 05/06/2007 12:16:15 PM PDT by Kolokotronis (Christ is Risen, and you, o death, are annihilated!)
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To: Kolokotronis
[... “Life to the body is granted by the human spirit and real life to the soul is granted by the divine spirit. That is why the abandonment of the soul by the vivifying divine spirit causes its spiritual death, just as the abandonment of the body by the vivifying human spirit causes its physical death. The soul, when removed from God, only technically preserves its immortality.” ..]

I agree with that(quoted) more or less.. even though soul and spirit are the same thing..

14,062 posted on 05/06/2007 1:48:09 PM PDT by hosepipe (CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
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