THE LAMP OF THE LORD.

[Alex2165]

THE LAMP OF THE LORD.


Proverbs 20.27

27.”The spirit of a man is the lamp of the Lord, searching all the innermost parts of his being.”


Before I always wonder, how come the Lord can know all the thoughts of all human beings?


Indeed, when GOD breathed into Adam His breath of life, He inserted into him a part of His Own Spirit, not the Holy Spirit, but spirit of life, in order to make Adam a living human being.


And this is how the link between the soul of a human being and the GOD was established. So in this sense all humans on Earth have that link with GOD through the “lamp of the Lord” His breath that He had inserted into us.


I also like how Zodhiates (KSB) explained this issue, he wrote:


“The spirit of man" distinguishes him from animals. Animal has a soul in Hebrew, nephesh [5315], which expresses life and vitality (Deuteronomy 12.23) where "life" is from the same Hebrew word.



But GOD breathed the "spirit" or "breath" of life into man's nostrils (Genesis 2.7), where "breath" is from the Hebrew ruach [7307], elsewhere translated "spirit."


Even within man who has fallen into sin, GOD has placed His lamp by which He is able to search the inner self (1Corinthians 2.11). The full meaning of the statement is that GOD has given man his conscience as a light to aid in distinguishing between good and evil.



KSB, Spiros Zodhiates. P-861.


Psalm 44.20-21

20.”If we have forgotten the name of our GOD, or spread out our hands to a strange god,

21.would not GOD discover this? He knows the secret of the heart.”


Ecclesiastes 12.14

14.”GOD will bring every deed into judgment, including every secret thing, whether good or evil.”


Romans 2.16

16.”on the day when according to my Gospel, GOD through Jesus Christ will judge the secret thoughts of all.”



How “the lamp of the Lord” works in a wicked person? Certainly even most evil person in the world has conscience - “the lamp of the Lord,” but it is not active, instead the wicked has his own lamp ”the lamp of the wicked.“


This lamp is sin, means that the conscience (the lamp of the Lord) of the wicked does not shine, he extinguished and turned on his own “the lamp of sin” in his soul.


Proverbs 21.4

4.”Haughty eyes and proud heart, the lamp of the wicked is sin.”

 

[utilyan]

His Own Spirit, not the Holy Spirit,

Please contemplate what you are stating here. God's own spirit.....not the holy spirit?




Heres another lamp line:

Matthew 6
22“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, c your whole body will be full of light. 23But

 

[Alex2165]

Please contemplate what you are stating here. God's own spirit.....not the holy spirit?




Heres another lamp line:

Matthew 6
22“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eyes are healthy, c your whole body will be full of light. 23But

I meant GOD'S Own Energy of Life, which is passed from Adam to Eve, and from Eve to all human generations through child birth, that is the life giving spirit.


The Holy Spirit of GOD did not passed to Adam, the Holy Spirit of GOD descended on other people who were able to conduct extraordinary miracles and signs impossible for human beings to do, in order to show GOD'S power, GOD'S glory, and GOD'S will.


The verse you presented also is very good and also reflects to some extend the essence of the "lamp-soul" of the person. In this verse the eyes of a person became his/her "lamp of the soul," meaning that if we looking or searching for good things to do, this means our whole body became "light" to others who see our good deeds and appreciated it.


It also works in opposite way, then we look to do something wicked, dishonest, or godless, our soul and our body became the "lamp of sin," as indicated in Proverbs 21.4.