The Spirit of The Cosmos
The Spirit of The Cosmos
The Difference Between Christians and Worldlings is in the “spirit”
The Spirit of the Cosmos
It is incredible to see the mental gymnastics of people to avoid the worship of the One True God.
People in the postmodern age are more likely to believe in Faries, The World As A Simulation, and the Universe being a god than they are to worship the true God of the Ages.
Yet their refusal to believe, trust in, and follow the word of the True God is evidence of what spirit is in the person.
In 1 Corinthians 2:12, Paul says of Christians:
“Now we have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from God, that we might understand the things freely given us by God.”
When we picture the idea above “spirit of the world” we are prone to think of this celestial ball, “Earth.”
But the Grecian idea of “world” is closer to the Hebrew: “the Cosmos.” In fact, that’s the word for world here, “kosmou.”
So you see the difference between the person in this world who rejects the true God and the Christian is whether they have the “spirit of the universe” / “spirit of the cosmos” versus whether they have “pneuma to ek tou Theo” or “the Spirit who is from God.”
As Paul will later elaborate this present “schema” or “form” of this Cosmos is heading to nonexstence (1 Cor 7:31).
So if the spirit that is in you is the Spirit of the Cosmos, prepare to fade away. Prepare for your very identity to degrade and decompose, because you are earthly, transient, passing.
Conversely, if the Spirit in you is uncreated, divine, eternal in the heavens - yea - out of the heavens for “the heaven of heavens cannot contain him” and “what is the house you could build for me” etc., then you cannot pass away. In this case your nature is intwined into the divine nature, the divine name, the divine word. You are in that sense eternal as God very God himself.
So I know that following the Bible is hard sell. I mean after all who wouldn’t want a few passing pleasures, a few orgasms, a few riches, a few praises of men, a few sins, and all that. And who after all who has the Spirit of the Cosmos would want to live forever and ever in the perfections of God. Who would want to be so exalted that they would at times forget their creatureliness and enjoy the divine nature as what and who they are. The Cross is a hard sell in any age.
But I will take it, because I have not the spirit of the cosmos, but the Spirit that is from God.
Be careful Christian, whether your concept of the “Holy Spirit” is just the spirit of the Cosmos tricking you onto the broad road to hell. (You will easily tell the difference, one is the path of the Cross, the other the path of pleasure.)
Nate
S.D.G.