[Alamo-Girl]

What a beautiful essay-post, dear brother in Christ!

Quite true.. What do "we" know of dimensions?..... "nothing".. We surmise there be a thing like dimensions, they seem to add up to human mathematics.. But human mathematics could be so flawed its like cave art to photography..

So very true!

Its possible being a "the spirit" don't even NEED shape to function well.. Maybe shape itself is redundant or limiting, and linear like thinking.. Humans are so addicted to flesh mentally.. it can be an obsession.. Idolatry seems to be primitive spirituality.. needing an "object" to hold or "observe" as a teddy bear.. to a waif..

Indeed. I suspect there are some who find it easier to believe in someone who believes in God - than to believe in God, directly.

The bible uses both to model spirit as metaphors.. Merely metaphors but not the real thing.. Air and water could be primitive examples of what spirit is, or may be like, also.. I posit the human body itself could be merely a metaphor of what the spirit might be in some aspects.. Eyes, Ears, the NOSE, Taste, the skin(feeling), shapely identity, and more could all be pointers or object lessons toward the real thing spiritually..

A very engaging speculation, dear hosepipe.

Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again. The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. - John 3:7-8

Praise God!!!

[blue-duncan]

“Its possible being a “the spirit” don’t even NEED shape to function well.. Maybe shape itself is redundant or limiting, and linear like thinking.. Humans are so addicted to flesh mentally.. it can be an obsession.. Idolatry seems to be primitive spirituality.. needing an “object” to hold or “observe” as a teddy bear.. to a waif..”

The scriptures seem to say there is shape and substance to things above and immortal body must have shape and substance to be recognized and “clothed” not only with righteousness, but with garments.

Exodus 25: 8-19, “And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them. According to all that I shew thee, after the pattern of the tabernacle, and the pattern of all the instruments thereof, even so shall ye make it.”

Heb. 8:1-5, “Now of the things which we have spoken this is the sum: We have such an high priest, who is set on the right hand of the throne of the Majesty in the heavens;
2 A minister of the sanctuary, and of the true tabernacle, which the Lord pitched, and not man. For every high priest is ordained to offer gifts and sacrifices: wherefore it is of necessity that this man have somewhat also to offer. For if he were on earth, he should not be a priest, seeing that there are priests that offer gifts according to the law: Who serve unto the example and shadow of heavenly things, as Moses was admonished of God when he was about to make the tabernacle: for, See, saith he, that thou make all things according to the pattern shewed to thee in the mount.”

Heb. 9:11, “But Christ being come an high priest of good things to come, by a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not made with hands, that is to say, not of this building;”