The Creation Concept pt 2.

The origin of the term "spiritual"

Have you ever wondered where the term spiritual originated and the reasons behind it? No, of course not. For why should you, let alone should you even have an interest.

 The term is so freely used today that no one pays it any significance. During your "search for Self" it is only appropriate for us to reveal this forgotten mystery that has gotten lost through the passages of time. The term spiritual is purely an ancient Christian concept which was meant to identify the adherents of the then newly forming faith. It was solely taken from the term spirit which represented the eternal essence within man. Followers of "The Way", the original name for Christianity, were regarded as the spiritual, those who were initiated into the "Sacred Secrets" and who had dedicated themselves to the teachings of the founder, Jesus the Nazarene, and who had vowed to live their lives according to the ways of the spirit.

Today, the term bears little significance to its original inception. We can even go as far and say that, today, the term is misrepresented and distorted to deflect away from its original purpose of use. It was solely used as a sign of recognition of an initiated group of adherents. Today we find that, swaying away from its original intent and purpose, it has instead infiltrated virtually every religious movement upon this planet, each, resorting to English, in some way declare their acceptance of Jesus the Nazarene and his teaching whether they wish to or not, simply by using the term "spiritual", a purely Christian concept.

What we need to remember here, where truth is concerned, is that the spirit has always been the core of Christian teaching. So how many who are using the term "spiritual" actually teach the doctrine of the spirit? The Buddhist can't, as he believes in the soul. So do the Creeks. But that doesn't surprise us as a vast majority of Christians have also adopted the corrupted doctrine of the Creek soul concept, where the real Christian should look upon this corruption as a profanity. All who teach the eternal essence of the soul should not be using the term "spirituality", instead, "souluality"…as in, "I feel very soulual today". We always find it amusing to see, after people have converted to Eastern Religions, how they have a tendency to unknowingly blend the two, or always revert back to the concepts of their original faith, Christianity.

As we set upon our "search for Self", yet maintaining our strong Christian background and principles of belief, and incorporate them into our search, we should hence endeavor, as much as possible, to sieve through the sands of corruption and misconceptions of our faith in an attempt to gather as many grains of truth that we can. Understanding that the concept of the "spirit" is a fundamental truth of Christianity, around which its doctrines are built, cast away all these Creek corrupted concepts of the "soul" which in reality plays very little significance in Christian teaching.