Laeth, can you please elaborate on what you mean by "it seems to me that the mass killings were targeted for specific people, and those types of people are now in terminal decline for other reasons"?
Are you just saying that the devil wanted to kill all the good people, and largely succeeded? Or is there more to it than that?
Yes, this is a significant insight. Back during the birdemic years, when the severing of the body from the spirit and the corrputing of the matter/spirit dynamic could not have been more blatant, I referred to this as "despiritualization", but I didn't make the same sort of concrete connection you have made here.
thank you Frank :) i thought about this problem for quite a while but today, for one reason or another, i had this intuition about the transformational impact that earthly incarnation has on the spirit itself. i think it's more or less assumed by conventional theology that the spirit gains nothing and loses nothing by being incarnate, except in a very loose sense of gaining knowledge perhaps, but i think it's more than that. there is a reason why Jesus still has the wounds after the resurrection.
Yes. Most, if not all, malevolent spirits resent our incarnations. Most see the body as inferior to spirit, but do not consider the profound implications of a spiritualized body, particularly one that has resurrected. Jesus did not ascend to Heaven as a pure spirit, but in a resurrected body.
If malevolent spirits cannot have access to a body, then they will channel their rensentment into destroying/corrupting the spirit/body dynamic.
I personally think the experience of the body and other forms of matter is vital to our recognizing and learning about our inherent spiritual freedom, to say nothing of the implications involved in relationship-forming, love, commitment to good, attitude to death in this world, and so forth.
Laeth, can you please elaborate on what you mean by "it seems to me that the mass killings were targeted for specific people, and those types of people are now in terminal decline for other reasons"?
Are you just saying that the devil wanted to kill all the good people, and largely succeeded? Or is there more to it than that?
i would rather not elaborate further, to be quite honest.
Yes, this is a significant insight. Back during the birdemic years, when the severing of the body from the spirit and the corrputing of the matter/spirit dynamic could not have been more blatant, I referred to this as "despiritualization", but I didn't make the same sort of concrete connection you have made here.
thank you Frank :) i thought about this problem for quite a while but today, for one reason or another, i had this intuition about the transformational impact that earthly incarnation has on the spirit itself. i think it's more or less assumed by conventional theology that the spirit gains nothing and loses nothing by being incarnate, except in a very loose sense of gaining knowledge perhaps, but i think it's more than that. there is a reason why Jesus still has the wounds after the resurrection.
Yes. Most, if not all, malevolent spirits resent our incarnations. Most see the body as inferior to spirit, but do not consider the profound implications of a spiritualized body, particularly one that has resurrected. Jesus did not ascend to Heaven as a pure spirit, but in a resurrected body.
If malevolent spirits cannot have access to a body, then they will channel their rensentment into destroying/corrupting the spirit/body dynamic.
I personally think the experience of the body and other forms of matter is vital to our recognizing and learning about our inherent spiritual freedom, to say nothing of the implications involved in relationship-forming, love, commitment to good, attitude to death in this world, and so forth.
By "most" in the first line, I meant most people, not spirits.
indeed. well said.