The Bible does not teach that humans are to liberate themselves from the body in order to have a purely spiritual existence.
We must remember that the same people who em- braced this philosophy also continued in Man the myth of spiritual existence.
What matters is the importance of the past to our intellectual and spiritual existence.
You do not consider death a translation to a spiritual existence?
I must mention, too, that all I have described has taken place on a relatively low level of spiritual existence.
This spiritual existence is usually not considered eternal; the spirits of the dead live on until there's someone who remembers them.
They loathe lust and seek to promote their spiritual existence.
15 Paul describes the resurrection as "a mystery,"18 the transformation from physical to spiritual existence.
The Waodani believe the animals of their forest have a spiritual as well as physical existence.
Their entire environment was the source of a deeply spiritual existence.