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Bondage or Liberty, Which? - Statement of Being - Thinking - Denials - Affirmations - Faith - Definition of Terms: Chemicalization, Personality, and Individuality - Spiritual Understanding - The Secret Place of the Most High - Spiritual Gifts - Unity of the Spirit - Glossary of Truth Terms - Index - Contents -

STATEMENT OF BEING

WHO AND WHAT GOD IS WHO AND WHAT MAN IS

Second Lesson

When Jesus was talking with the Samaritan woman at the well, he said to her, "God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth."

(John 4:24 ASV reads, "God is a Spirit," but the marginal note is, "God is spirit," and some other versions render this passage, "God is Spirit.") To say "a Spirit" would be to imply the existence of more than one spirit. Jesus, in his statement, did not imply this.

Webster in his definition of spirit says: "An animating or vital principle held to give life to physical organisms. A supernatural being or essence; the Holy Spirit."

God, then, is not, as many of us have been taught to believe, a big personage or man residing somewhere in a beautiful region in the sky, called "heaven," where good people go when they die, and see Him clothed in ineffable glory; nor is He a stern, angry judge only awaiting opportunity somewhere to punish bad people who have failed to live a perfect life here.

God is Spirit, or the creative energy that is the cause of all visible things. God as Spirit is the

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