Not quite. God is God. God lives, but not in the same way that everything else lives. All life is dependent upon God.
Yes.
Life - like every animate thing other than God possesses - has not always existed.
Yes.
No. You are confusing the nature of what has been created with the One Who created it. God has created and sustains all life.
False conclusion based on faulty premises.
That's the way the King James translates it, but it is not a great translation. The better translations read, "God is Spirit."
God is not like the other 'spirits' that live.
False conclusion based on faulty and unsupported premises.
Yes, God was not created.
If you remove "the Spirit of Life" from your statement, you're okay. God has always existed.
Yes, but you didn't get this from what has come before.
I don't know what you mean by this: That (1) no spirits have ever died or ceased to exist? or (2) that, by definition, all spirits are alive? or that (3) all spirits are immortal?
There was not a time where there was no God. The concern about "mak[ing] Himself come alive" does not align with Christian teaching on the subject.
Again, I don't know what you mean by your words.
Certainly God has given life to all spirits (whatever you mean by that), but God's character is not necessarily reflected in all spirits and they do not all have His authority or blessing.
In terms of existence, yes. In other senses, God is as "big" as He wants to be. Material terms do not apply since God is Spirit.
You have equated God with "life" without demonstrated why that is appropriate. God lives/exists, but not in the same sense that every other living person or thing lives. You cannot reduce God down to the term "life."
Life in what we call "the natural world" was definitely created. That's explicit Christian teaching.
False.
There is a sense in which He reproduced Himself when He created humankind in His own image, but that's not what you appear to be talking about.
If you remove the word "however," I'll agree with your statement.
Again, what are you trying to demonstrate? Where are you going with this?
You claim to be a Baptist and are posting in the Baptist Only section of the forum. Therefore, by your own claim, you are a Baptist, believing the Baptist Distinctives, and are solidly grounded in Christian Orthodoxy.
Please insure that future posts in the Baptist Only section of the forum fall within the confines of the Baptist Distinctives and Christian Orthodoxy.
Thank you,
Thomas Cassidy
Baptist Board Administrator
The Law of Abiogenesis (aka Pasteur's law) states that life can only come from pre-existing life.
Therefore there has to be a Life that is eternal, otherwise nothing could exist.
Please present to me the rule that states whatever I post here to debate has to
fall within the your interpretation of the confines of the Baptist Distinctives and Christian Orthodoxy. Where is that stated on this forum for me to read?
Please cut and paste anything I have posted that
you do not believe for me or that is not within the
confines of the Baptist Distinctives and Christian Orthodoxy.