(January 6, 2020 at 10:13 pm)Haipule Wrote: So, Ephesians 5:18(the only verse that says this) says, "Be filled with the Spirit(pneuma)". Yet, Paul does NOT say how. Yet, theology invents: he only states why. Yet, theologians for centuries have been telling Christians how to be "spiritual". It's a joke! pneuma just means to inhale a breath usually referring to information gleaned from an outside source other then self. Like reading a book, watching TV, talking to others, etc. pneuma in Ephesians 5:18 is the inhale of breath and Ephesians 5:19 is the exhale. Breath in, breath out--that's it!
Can you imagine that I have to teach breathing:101 to Christians?
Christian yoga would likely play well in megachurches. They would televise it.
Have you ever looked into how the Latin term for Venus, Lucifer, became a name for Satan? Isaiah tagged a dead Babylonian king with "morning star," as a metaphor for the kings fall from godlike aspirations to the grave, through his own hubris. Over time, this metaphor aligned with the fallen angel story. It shows memes, the Dawkins kind, at work.
