Lesson No. 8

Natural Attributes 

Lesson No. 8 Spiritual Nature

Regarding this attribute corresponding to the nature of God, the Holy Scriptures say the following:

John chapter 4: verse 24: “God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth”.51

These are the authentic words of our Lord Jesus Christ, which reveal to us that the nature of God is spiritual.

This has the particularity of shining, emanating light or illuminating, taken from the literal point of view of the sense of the expression. This is how the Holy Scriptures declare it, according to the following passage:

Revelation chapter 21: verse 23: “And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof”.51

This particularity is also attributed to Jesus Christ, the Son, as this passage reflects, and even to angels according to other biblical references.

Related to the existence of the spiritual, the consequent scientific investigations have brought to light that all the existence that our universe is composed of is exclusively due to two things: matter and spirit. They observe that matter is everything that surrounds us, except thoughts, feelings, and will, as these elements according to science are spiritual.

So just as the existence of the material is proven, the existence of the spiritual is also demonstrated, and neither of the two things can be denied. However, the difference between the material and the spiritual is of an incomparable magnitude. While the material is something concrete that can be seen and touched; the spiritual is abstract and does not admit any of these possibilities. Matter can be experimented with and processed in any scientific laboratory, while the spiritual cannot be recognized or perceived, except through personal experience, under the effects of a supernatural intervention. Personal experience is a secondary source of theology, providing us with extraordinary knowledge concerning the evidence of the spiritual. We can say that the most evident proof of the existence of the spiritual is achieved through personal experience.

The Holy Bible gives us testimony of both the spiritual and personal experience, which is achieved mainly when we begin to relate to God through prayer and obedience to the principles of His divine will.