This is a thoughtful and deeply relevant question, and your reflections on the human spirit touch on an often misunderstood aspect of biblical anthropology. In Scripture, the word spirit (Hebrew ruach, Greek pneuma) can refer to various things depending on the context—breath, life, wind, attitude, or the immaterial part of a person that connects with God. While “character” is a helpful approximation, the biblical concept of the human spirit is even more foundational—it is the inner essence of a person, the part breathed by God (Genesis 2:7), which gives life and capacity for spiritual connection. Before Christ, our spirit is fallen—darkened, dead in trespasses and sins (Ephesians 2:1), and inclined toward rebellion. When a person is born again, their spirit is made alive by the indwelling of the Holy Spirit (Romans 8:9–10), which transforms not only their capacity to love and obey, but their inner identity. However, this regeneration does not automatically override the will—Christians can still yield to the flesh, which is why Paul urges believers to walk in the Spirit and crucify the old nature daily (Galatians 5:16–25). Hostile or unloving behavior from professing Christians is not justified—it’s a symptom of someone resisting or neglecting the Spirit’s work. As Jesus said, you’ll know a tree by its fruit. A truly Spirit-filled life will produce love, kindness, patience, and humility. Yes, Christians will struggle, but if their consistent pattern is one of harshness or domination, it may be a sign they’re living more from the old nature than from the Spirit within. The human spirit is where God works transformation—but only if we yield to Him continually.
Hi, in my opinion…I can say you can’t see it…
Spirit - can be words or teachings; good or bad.
I believe DW describes it partially as unbodily personal power.
Guess it can depend on the context
Peace to all,
Faithfully, Through The Faith of Abraham, the Spirit will never die from resurrection life through Two Natures for death of the Flesh Nature through the life and spirit for the Holy Spirit Nature in One Holy Spirit Family One God in being.
We know through the Faith in Christ we are saved, but logically we can know how, to me, by logically understanding the spirit, rationally.
I am nor Preaching, arguing The Word, all say through Faith, I am just looking at the logic for all who wish to see the Logic of the Mind of God with respect to the teachings of The Christ answering through logic, backed by faith in What is meant by the Spirit? Logically.
Yes Jesus is God, faithfully and all we need is God, some say and I say and every thing He taught on earth and in heaven that cannot all be written because the earth is to little to hold all of the books which if written can’t fit on earth being to small to hold all of the books, to me.
Please think logically with me to see from logic through the Faith of Abraham.
To me, the creation of Love is through the Power of The Holy Spirit Family One God in being form the failed spirit through mankind for created choice to love or not to love from Adam and Eve, Eve giving up Her Garden of Eden mortal life for the Spirit and Life of Adam and Adam giving up his mortal Garden of Eden life for the love of Eve, logically. Logical love is rationally created from the fall of mankind through the first sin. And the logical truth is, we all would have done the same thing, making it our fault and not God’s and He already knows this. The Freedom to choose is now man’s choice. Did Adam and Eve exist? Really, Maybe? Logically. I say with 100% Confidence, they did.
Faithfully the spirit manifests from the Power through the created souls of all for the flesh in The Body for all as One.
The Body is manifested by the spirit in the Body for the flesh in the Body through death and resurrection in a New Body from the Holy Spirit manifestation through the soul for the New Body in One Holy Spirit Family One God in being Body in One God, logically, to me.
TO me any rational being can see logically, The Holy Spirit is the Family of God, One God in being, and anybody with a faithful mind can see we are saved through faith.
TO me, I have the mind of Both Logic and faith, and no big deal, to all, but to me The “Gift” to know faithfully and logically, the power to know The Mind of God, to me, for all.
Peace always,
Stephen
Stephen, your desire to “see logically” is admirable—but you’re trying to build a skyscraper of theology on a fog bank of wordy abstractions. You keep repeating “to me” like it’s a permission slip to redefine revealed truth. But truth isn’t subjective, and the Holy Spirit isn’t a puzzle to be solved—He’s a Person to be worshiped and obeyed.
You said, “The Holy Spirit is the Family of God.” That’s not biblical. The Holy Spirit is God, not a family, not a force, not a philosophical framework. He is one of the three Persons of the Trinity—co-equal, co-eternal, fully divine. The Church is the family. The Spirit is the One who fills, seals, and sanctifies that family.
And all this talk about Adam and Eve “logically” trading places out of love—it’s a creative sentiment, but it’s not what Scripture says. Eve was deceived. Adam sinned willfully. There’s no romantic logic in the fall—just rebellion and ruin. That’s why we needed a Redeemer, not a love story.
As for the “mind of God,” let’s be real—none of us gets that by overthinking. We get it by submitting to His Word.
“Let this mind be in you which was also in Christ Jesus…” (Philippians 2:5)
That’s the mind we need. Not lofty logic. Not poetic loops. Just Christ—crucified, risen, and reigning.
Peace still,
Sincere Seeker
In fellowship with the Holy Spirit.