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Spirit filled vs religious vs spiritual


What is the difference between being religious, spiritual and spirit filled?

Webster's dictionary says that being religious  is "relating to or manifesting faithful devotion to an acknowledged ultimate reality or deity".

Webster's dictionary says that being spiritual is "of, relating to, consisting of, or affecting the spirit or  concerned with religious values".

According to the Collins English dictionary being spirit filled or the charismatic movement is this, "Christianity any of various groups, within existing denominations, that emphasize communal prayer and the charismatic gifts of speaking in tongues, healing, etc".

Here's my take on this, Jay Z said on  Watch the Throne, "You ain't gotta go to church to get to know yo' God" raps on the song Threat that he's killing people but it's a valid statement.

I loved church, I guess but when life experiences change us as an young adult as in my bipolar manifesting and I felt like I lost my faith. I don't believe I blamed God for it... It just wasn't fair that I wasn't "normal" anymore. People in my life didn't understand bipolar and I had no one to relate too either and the Church offered me nothing to help anymore.

We should go to church to be with like minded individuals it helps get through life. People on my Facebook couldn't answer what it was I was posting for a theological question. I got it's good to be all three and an I don't understand the difference.

To be religious only are the folks who are high holiday church goers, they go when they want to light candles and what not. To be spiritual is being able to understand the spirits connection to God or higher power to ourselves. Lastly being spirit filled is the filling of the Holy Ghost of God. People have done amazing things with the power of Christ.

In the Bible the Pharisees were the highest religious cast in Jewish culture and religion.  Jesus said they were snakes and they were keepers of the Law. They were the ultimate examples of being religious. Catholicism boasts many religious members but many don't understand the spirit they worship the Holy Mother and pray to Saints. That all derived from paganism to a masked religion when Christianity dominated the known world. Religion has done caused many atrocities through out history. Now being religious and studying the Bible is great and taking communion for the right reasons.

Being spiritual is like knowing there's a higher power and your soul is of this collective. Dorks equate this to the Force like when Han Solo acknowledged that it exists but couldn't use it.

Being spirit filled to me is knowing and feeling Jesus in your heart or having the Force. I've seen God move in mysterious ways, people's lives changed 180°.

So was my friend wrong, no but she had no information for anyone to follow her.

I miss church sometimes but I don't have to go to church to know my God.

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