Spirit References
(We apply Bible references to passages taken from the page "Spirit")
"God Is Spirit"
John 4:24
God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth
KJV
"Man Is A Very Limited Being"
1 Cor 15:50
I declare to you, brothers, that flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, nor does the perishable inherit the imperishable.
(from New International Version)
Ps 39:4-5
4 "Show me, O LORD, my life's end
and the number of my days;
let me know how fleeting is my life.
5 You have made my days a mere handbreadth;
the span of my years is as nothing before you.
Each man's life is but a breath.
(from New International Version)
Ps 49:12
But man, despite his riches, does not endure;
he is like the beasts that perish.
(from New International Version)
Ps 92:6-7
6 The senseless man does not know,
fools do not understand,
7 that though the wicked spring up like grass
and all evildoers flourish,
they will be forever destroyed.
(from New International Version)
Ps 94:11
The LORD knows the thoughts of man;
he knows that they are futile.
(from New International Version)
Spirit
"The world outside of our physical dimensions of space, time, and mass is called spirit."
John 1:18
No man hath seen God at any time; the only begotten Son, which is in the bosom of the Father, he hath declared him.
KJV
1 John 4:12
No man hath seen God at any time.
KJV
Heb 1:3-4
The Son is the radiance of God's glory and the exact representation of his being, sustaining all things by his powerful word. After he had provided purification for sins, he sat down at the right hand of the Majesty in heaven. 4 So he became as much superior to the angels as the name he has inherited is superior to theirs.
(from New International Version)
"It [spirit] is the basis of our universe. It fills the universe with its presence."
Acts 17:27-28
27 . . . seek the Lord, . . . and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; . . .
KJV
"It was spirit that refashioned the surface of the earth at the beginning of this creation."
Gen 1:1-2
1 In the beginning God created the Heaven and the earth. 2 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.
KJV
Rev 4:11
"You are worthy, our Lord and God,
to receive glory and honor and power,
for you created all things,
and by your will they were created
and have their being."
(from New International Version)
The Bible
"Man.......did not submit to guidance."
Gen 3:17
To Adam he said, "Because you listened to your wife and ate from the tree about which I commanded you, 'You must not eat of it,' "Cursed is the ground because of you;
through painful toil you will eat of it
all the days of your life.
(from New International Version)
Jer 17:9
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
KJV
"The one authority on spiritual things is the Bible"
2 Tim 3:16
All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness,
(from New International Version)
Rev 22:18-19
18 I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: If anyone adds anything to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book. 19 And if anyone takes words away from this book of prophecy, God will take away from him his share in the tree of life and in the holy city, which are described in this book.
(from New International Version)
"Bible, written by God through the hands of men"
Rev 1:10-11
10 On the Lord's Day I was in the Spirit, and I heard behind me a loud voice like a trumpet, 11 which said: "Write on a scroll what you see and send it to the seven churches:
(from New International Version)
Rev 1:1-2
1 The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show his servants what must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, 2 who testifies to everything he saw-that is, the word of God and the testimony of Jesus Christ.
(from New International Version)
See also 2 Tim 3:16 above.
"Men rejected even the words God personally inscribed on the tables of stone."
Ex 31:18
When the LORD finished speaking to Moses on Mount Sinai, he gave him the two tablets of the Testimony, the tablets of stone inscribed by the finger of God.
(from New International Version)
Ex 32:1
When the people saw that Moses was so long in coming down from the mountain, they gathered around Aaron and said, "Come, make us gods who will go before us. As for this fellow Moses who brought us up out of Egypt, we don't know what has happened to him."
(from New International Version)
"The only map .......... is the Bible."
John 17:17
Sanctify them by the truth; your word is truth.
(from New International Version)
See the whole of Psalm 119.
"There are many traps awaiting the ill-informed."
Note the many warnings about being deceived in the last days - Mathew 24.3 - 26
Matt 24:4
4 And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.
5 For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.
11 And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.
24 For there shall arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall shew great signs and wonders; insomuch that, if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
KJV
updated 24aug06
|