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Sunday 30 October 2016

YOU WHOSE IMPERISHISHABLE SPIRIT IS IN ALL (Wisdom 12:1)

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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