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our spirit? Because our spirit is the very place within us where God can dwell. The spirit is the site, the ground where God can act on our be half. If you are a Christian in your spirit, this means you are a Christian with God. If you act in your spirit, this means you act with God. Without God, everything is vain; with Him, ev erything is reality. Therefore, we must return to our spirit. If we love other people, we must love them in our spirit. Otherwise, our love is not genuine. However, if we love in our spirit, our love is with God. If I say a word to you, I must say it in my spirit. Then that word will be a word with God. Our spirit is the organ through which God can touch us and through which we can touch God. Everything we are and everything we do must be in our spirit. This is not religion; this is reality.
Doing Evils as the Unreligious
Eventually, the religious people practice the same evils as the unreligious (2:21-22). It seems that there is no difference between the unreli gious people and the religious people. All are the same. Although the Jews were religious, they be haved even worse than the Gentiles.
In this portion on the condemnation of the