THEY DON'T REALLY KNOW
(Posted 2009-06-30 09:47:38 by ArchPaladin)

My professors and classmates at school throw the term "spiritual" around a
lot.  They use this term in the context of discussing the actions of a
particular acupuncture point or the needs of a patient that comes for
treatment.

What they are really referring to is the mental and emotional needs of the
patient, rather than their spiritual needs, but they don't know this.  I
think they default to the "spiritual" term because it is easier or shorter
to say, or perhaps because they define their understanding of spirituality
in a very visceral sense.  I'm not even convinced that the loosest
definition of spirituality (ie. "my place in the universe") applies to how
they use the term, but they would probably argue that with me.

I find this interesting because I've been coming back to 1 Corinthians 1-4
for a number of days now.  This passage speaks about spiritual wisdom and
contrasts it with human wisdom and understanding.  Part of the passage
mentions that spiritual wisdom is expressed in spiritual words - implying
that the language is different, even if the vocabulary itself hasn't
changed.  I've been looking for a good example to help me understand this
passage, and I think I may have found it.

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