A Matter for Inspiration

Before I go into the second chapter from Genesis let me point out the role of Holy Spirit. In the second verse we read thus: ‘and the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. ’In one of my earlier post I had defined the role of Holy Spirit as Inspiration. Under its influence St. Peter could discern Jesus of Nazareth was Christ, the Son of God. What did Jesus say to a revelation that he never did divulge to him? ‘Blessed art thou,…for flesh and blood hath not revealed it unto thee, but my Father which is in heaven.’(St. Mat 16:15—17)
God’s intent is put into operation though the agency of the Holy Spirit. That office was very much evident while God set out to bring order out of chaos. In the first chapter we read God commanded waters under the heavens to come together to form Seas. It was so.(vs.7) The Spirit of God moved through the face of the waters. Of this we read in so many details in the chapter 2. Evolution of the earth from chaos to order meant every atom in our material world was sensitized and had caught the glory of His spirit. Thus if at quantum level fundamental particles should behave in a certain mode and in macrocosmos in another it still follows an order that was received at the Creation Day.
‘There went up a mist from the earth,…’ The waters had seen the glory of God and it made no difference if there were waters separated by the introduction of a firmament. (The earth and the fullness thereof belongs to God.) If matter can thus be inspired to create conditions for life how much more man who is the very image of God?
benny

A Creative Spirit

Eyes are often characterized as the window of soul.
‘For what man knoweth the things of a man save the spirit of man in him…’ (1 Cor 2:11) Spirit of man is the divine spark that wells up and courses through entire being by which man has throughout the course of human history impressed on one another. Spirit is his animating principle. His creative genius could not have been sustained to author a treatise or literary work without the ability of spirit in communion with every other.
If not for my experience and spirit of the ages that envelop me would I be able to enjoy the work of Martial or Ovid? What has an Elizabethean Age to do with me? Yet the works of Shakespeare, Marlowe do hold charms for me.
In the pagan religion we see how spirit played a great role: what are the Delphic oracles but spirit giving utterance to answer seekers who were in need of guidance. These Phythia sat at specific spots and heard the supplicants and gave out their answers under its influence. One might say these virgins must have had a hallucinatory episode while they spoke. The fact that their oracles however bizarre were translated into words by another meant that spirit of man once again came into play here.
Art, literature and thought of the Pagan world, for their excellence and many artifacts of their cultural life still surviving, stand testimony to their spirit.
But as I mentioned in my previous post this spirit do not signify soul.
(2 b Cont'd)
benny