The title of this post was taken from the 1st reading of today's Sunday Mass.
In today’s
first reading from the Book of Wisdom we read ' you whose imperishable spirit
is in all'.....
Wisdom is one of the apocryphal books in the Old Testament
which the Church includes as scripture.
The problem I have with that line 'you
whose imperishable spirit is in all', cannot be true, because if it was true
that God's spirit was in everyone, then why would you need to be born again of
the spirit?
Some teach that the conscience is the
spirit of God within you.
That is not so. It is a part of your
natural person and it can be a blessing or a curse to you.
Your conscience can give you
permission to do something that is not right before God
And it can also limit you to do what is right
and prevent you from doing it.
Adam became the god of his own life by
eating from the tree of knowledge of good and evil. His spiritual communion
with God was lost and his conscience now became his guide. The conscience
therefore is the human spirit within that has been illuminated by the knowledge
of good and evil.
Pantheism teaches that everybody has
the spirit of God within them. Now everybody has a conscience, but if you
believe that the spirit of God is in your conscience then why would you need to
be born again?
Why would you need the renewal of the Holy Spirit within
you? This is mysticism or what we call
pantheism.
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