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Are the spirit and soul the same or different, and how clear cut is the difference if there is one?

I guess Gooseberry Patch was just the name of the cookbook. For some reason, I thought the vegetable platter was going to have a gooseberry sauce or glaze. That might be tasty.😋 EDIT: I guess gooseberry plants are illegal in some states in the US to protect local ecosytems, because the plants...

I know the question was directed at someone else, but I wanted to chime in my 2¢ Soul sleep and annihilation are also doctrines of Seventh Day Adventists and some other movements related to them. The theory as I understand it is this: When the body dies, the soul sleeps. Nothing is annihilated...

Binitarians like the Armstrong churches have more grounding in ancient Jewish ideas and theology than many may have realized.

Or is that what monolotry is?? 🤔

I would have thought of it that way too. The distinction being whom or how many you worship, if I have it right. Monolotry only worships one, henotheism can worship other with clear elevation of a supreme deity, correct? So both trinitarian theology, or thoughts about having angelic guardians...

Yeah, I think so too. Not understanding is starting from zero but one can learn and add knowledge False understanding is like starting from negative numbers but with a barrier that no equation can solve🫤😑 Those all sound like good ways to live. 😃😀🥰

Very interesting.

I looked this up. Ajnana meaning false understanding?

I guess I'm some kind of a toddler around here...

I'm pretty sure it refers to Binitarianism, in some ways not unlike Trinitarianism, but with two YHWH rather than 3 persons

One could get the impression you are a non-creedal Christian, like Quakers.

Let's just skip it. I'm past trying to figure out the specifics. I asked questions on post #61 & #64 and I don't think you replied or I don't understand your answers. Now you say I am "gaslighting" you. I find your posts interesting and read them. If I don't understand them I won't ask...

I think the reason that kind of thing happens is different communication styles, different conceptualizations, different use of vocabulary, different points of reference, thus, and the language one person, in this case yourself, is using, somehow isn't clicking for everybody. In cases like that...

Very mysterious...