"Do animals have spirit guides , immaterial, endowed by their creator ?"
There is no evidence for anything called "spirit" unless it comes from a bottle! Superstitious people have always believed in "spirits" because spiritus (air) is invisible. Superstitious people ascribe all sorts of magical powers to whatever they do not understand--which being the unseen and the unknown.
They would be far better off drinking the stuff! As an analogy can be parodied in the great Churchill quote!"
"Sir, you're drunk!" "Yes, Madam, I am. But in the morning, I will be sober and you will still be ugly."
Here are some examples of how superstitious people have tried to give their fragile, diminished, and beggarly worldview a contrived and pretentious meaning!
1.familiar spirit (Leviticus 20:27; 1Samuel 28:7)
2.spirit of jealousy (Numbers 5:14,30)
3.evil spirit (Judges 9:23; 1Samuel 16:14)
4.sorrowful spirit (1Samuel 1:15)
5.lying spirit (1Kings 22:22-23)
6.haughty (prideful) spirit (Proverbs 16:18)
7.perverse spirit (Isaiah 19:14)
8.spirit of deep sleep (Isaiah 29:10)
9.spirit of heaviness (Isaiah 61:1)
10.spirit of whoredom (Hosea 4:12; 5:4)
11.unclean spirit (Zechariah 13:2)
12.deaf and dumb spirit (Mark 9:17,25)
13.spirit of infirmity (Luke 13:11)
14.spirit of divination (Acts 16:16)
15.spirit of bondage (Romans 8:15)
16.spirit of slumber (Romans 11:8)
17.spirit of fear (2Timothy 1:7)
18.spirit of lust (James 4:5)
19.spirit of antichrist (1John 4:3)
20.spirit of error (1John 4:6)
21.seducing spirit (1Timothy 4:1)
22.spirit of Egypt [also known as the spirit of the world] - (Isaiah 19:3; 1John 2:15-16)
23.spirit of disobedience (Ephesians 2:2) |
