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NASB | 1 Peter 4:6 For the gospel has for this purpose been preached even to those who are dead, that though they are judged in the flesh as men, they may live in the spirit according to the will of God. |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | 1 Peter 4:6 For this is why the good news [of salvation] was preached [in their lifetimes] even to those who are dead, that though they were judged in the flesh as men are, they may live in the spirit according to [the will and purpose of] God. |
Subject: Holy Spirit or holy spirit; (s)Spirit? |
Bible Note: Hi Mommapbs, Sorry that I couldn't talk with you last night about this; my wife and I attended a performance of Handel's Messiah last night and I didn't check my e-mail afterwards. Have you heard it or sung in it yet this year? You've asked some good questions. I think that there is a difference in "What" and "Who" just like there is a difference in "which" and "whom". So to my mind if there is a choice to be made, we have to phrase the question as Who or what gives us life? I believe that the Spirit is the Giver and the spirit is the gift we receive. The Life gives us life. The Light gives us light. The Word gives us the word. The Spirit gives us spirit. 1) What gives us life? I think both the Spirit and the spirit. That is why I say that no denomination has everything "right". The Jehovah's Witness does not believe in the Person of the Holy Spirit and we are not open to thinking of the holy spirit as a power given to us. 2) In your questions you may be referring to 1 Peter 3:18 where it says we are made alive in the (s)Spirit. I think of Ephesians 2:5, "even when we were dead in our transgressions, [He] made us alive together with Christ..." 3) 1 Peter 3:18, "For Christ also died for sins once for all, the just for the unjust, in order that He might bring us to God, having been put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; 19 in WHICH also He went and made proclamation to the spirits now in prison,..." 1 Peter 3:18, NKJ, "...being put to death in the flesh but made alive by the Spirit, 19 by WHOM also He went and preached to the spirits..." You of course notice my stressed words of which and whom depending on spirit or Spirit. The NASB has as marginal notes [Or, Spirit] and [Or, whom]. And I would personally go with the "alive in the Spirit". How about you? 4) These things have been spoken of before through the years and ages as perhaps the choices of 1 Corinthians 6:20 would show. Some manuscripts do not include the second sentence. 1 Corinthians 6:20, NASB, "For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body. NKJ, "and in your spirit, which are God's." So my point is that we have to be aware that we have both a Spirit and a spirit in the Scriptures; we have to be discerning in who or what is being spoken of in the particular passages. 5) We can also look at Romans 8 together. From the heart, Ray |