The Mystery of Creation: Chapter 3: Understanding the Trinity: Emotions

Emotions

                Emotions, therefore, would be a part of our spirits as well.  Let’s think about this.  Are emotions visible or invisible?  Do we experience them because one of our physical senses detect them or do we experience them because of circumstances and situations that occur in our lives?  We experience emotions that are invisible because of circumstances and situations in our lives.  This sounds very much like an other-centered part of us, and the other-centered part of us is the spirit.

                Just as we feel pleasure or pain through our five physical senses so a spirit feels pleasure or pain through the input it receives from outside sources.  When someone upsets you then you feel negative emotions, or painful emotions.  When someone does something nice for you then you feel positive, or pleasing emotions.  Yes, emotions can trigger chemical responses in the body, and vice versa, but just as invisible forces affect visible magnets and vice versa, so the body and the spirit affect one another. 

                Depression, therefore, can come about because the body is tired and it is secreting chemicals into your body that are causing you to feel depression.  However, depression is a spiritual pain and not a physical one.  This is why it zaps your body of energy.  Likewise, depression can come about because of the actions of a person.  Someone has deeply hurt you, and so you feel alone and depressed.  This, then, causes chemicals to be released in your body which then deteriorate your body over time (if the depression continues for a long period of time).

                Even non-emotional forces can have an effect on human emotions.  Ever hear of the expression, “Must be a full moon out tonight?”  According to an article in Reader’s Digest, “Everyone has both light and dark inside them.  Positive or negative, the full moon takes your strongest qualities and enhances them.  According to Dr. Perrakis, the full moon has a way of bringing both sides out into the open.’  In the literal sense, what the full moon does is expand and it magnifies everything."’ (https://www.rd.com/culture/full-moon-astrology/)

                What am I trying to say here?  Why would the moon have an effect on people?  There is a force at work that is invisible to the human eye that is messing with your emotions during a full moon.  The physical object of the moon does not collide physically with a person.  However, some “force” or “spirit” from the moon comes upon a person and affects them.  Does it affect a person’s physical body?  Yes.  Does it affect their emotions?  Yes.  However, it is the invisible force of the moon that affects the invisible spirit within a human which in turn affects the physical body of a person.

                What I’m saying is that the body can cause emotions to be triggered because the spirit is connected to the body as well.  So if the body is injured it can trigger an emotional response.  The spirit receives a signal from the body that lets the spirit know that the body has had pain inflicted upon it, and the spirit responds with emotional pain. 

                This is just like the control unit on the computer.  It sends messages to the ALU and receives messages from the ALU.  It transmits orders from the ALU to the rest of the computer and receives messages from the rest of the computer and transmits them to the ALU.

                This is because the spirit is the other-centered part of a person.  It is always searching and trying to gather information about everything.  It is always concerned about everything else including the body.  In reference to the spirit searching and knowing all things, the Bible says in Psalm 77:6, “And my spirit makes diligent search.”  It also says in Romans 8:27, “Now He who searches the hearts knows what the mind of the Spirit is.”  1 Corinthians 2:10 says, “But God has revealed them to us through His Spirit, for the Spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of God.”

                Genesis 41:8 says, “that his spirit was troubled,” indicating that it was the spirit that was upset.  Exodus 6:9 says, “they did not heed Moses, because of anguish of spirit.”  Numbers 5:14 refers to “the spirit of jealousy.”  In Judges 9:23, “God sent a spirit of ill will between Abimelech and the men of Shechem.”  In 1 Samuel 16:15 it says, “Surely, a distressing spirit from God is troubling you,” referring to the person being stressed out and anxious.  In Galatians 5:22 it states, “But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, kindness, goodness, faithfulness…”  All of these are other-centered and/or fill a person with emotions.  Psalm 34:18 refers to having, “a contrite spirit” or a humble spirit.