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lilitalienboi16:
Since they are spiritual and they don't have physical bodies how do they see? How do they communicate for that matter if they don't have vocal chords and lips. Well, it's so fascinating to think about, i love thinking about it but this is not why i'm writing this. I wanted to share with you all something that i feel God inspired my friend to say to me.

We were contemplateing these very thoughts and i asked her, Well how do they see? To which she responded; "I think they see through love."

I was blown away. Spirit beings see through love! Her words were so beautiful and the thought seems so plausible and true. After all, God is love and God is spirit. Yet God doesn't tell us in His word how spirit beings see, how they eat, how they live, do they sleep? Do they dream about things in some distant land as we dream of heaven? These things seem like a mystery, so for now this beautiful thought remains just that, a thought, a dream of a world that seems so undescrible.

I hope you enjoyed dreaming and i invite you to dream with me!

God bless,

Alex

Kat:

Hi Alex,

I had been thinking about this same thing not too long ago, how do spirit beings see?
The love idea is a good one, but it does not take into account Satan and the demons.
In thinking about this I realized that we are greatly limited by our physical bodies, we can only see what our physical eyes allow us to see, we can only hear what is in the range of our ears.  Spirit being are not limited in this way.
 
Now I was thinking about how I could see things in my mind, daydreams and dreams at night, maybe this is a shadow of the real thing.  If you think about how you see things in your mind, that is limitless, you are not bound by or limited by your physical body. 
Think about if you are a spirit being and you could see anything in the physical realm if you focused your mind on it.  You could see the whole world or you could focus your mind down on one person and what they are doing.  Do you see what I mean?  This is just the way I am thinking it could be.  I believe Jesus spoke about how this was.

John 5:30  I can of Myself do nothing. As I hear (not an audible voice, but in His mind), I judge; and My judgment is righteous, because I do not seek My own will but the will of the Father who sent Me.

John 16:16  "A little while, and you will not see Me (physically); and again a little while, and you will see Me (in your mind with spiritual eyes), because I go to the Father."

Thinking of God, He can see the whole world at once and yet He can see every individual at the same time.  I'm thinking when a person is actually born of God they will be completely unitied with the mind of God and will be able to see as God sees, so to speak.  We will not have to be told by God in an audible voice what to do, we will be at one with Him so we will perceive in our minds and know His will.  But we will still be an individual of course.  Like Christ when He was on earth.  He was at one with the Father, He did not have to actually hear the Father's voice physically to know what He wanted Him to do.  When those times where God spoke about Jesus or actually "a voice" spoke, notice what Jesus said.

John 12:28  Father, glorify Your name.  "Then a voice came from heaven, saying, "I have both glorified it and will glorify it again."
v. 29  Therefore the people who stood by and heard it said that it had thundered. Others said, "An angel has spoken to Him."
v. 30  Jesus answered and said, "This voice did not come because of Me, but for your sake.

This is just where my thinking is on this right now.  Hope it helped you a little  :)

mercy, peace and love
Kat

lilitalienboi16:
Yes, i have considered satan howevver i thinking more along the lines of how God sees in spirit. He sees through love. I know satan doesn't see through love, but if God sees that way then one day satan will see through love because He to shall pass through the lake of fire, and so will all of creation. So perhaps one day all of creation will also see through love. However, you're thoughts are very interesting and it does make sence also. Perhaps they tie in together somewhere? Through love with the MIND [as you said in the mind] of GOD.

Let this MIND be in you, that was in CHRIST =]

It's all speculation offcourse, nothing solid, but thanks for joining me! Great stuff, i LOVE it :D pun intended :P

Feel free to add more, anyone for that matter, we are all just DREAMING :D

God bless,

Alex

Bradigans:
I believe that spiritual beings that see from the perspective of THE WORD, see by and through faith.
 
 - Hebrews 11:4 - By faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts: and by it he being dead yet speaketh.

 - Hebrews 11:5 - By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death; and was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had this testimony, that he pleased God.

 - Hebrews 11:7 - By faith Noah, being warned of God of things not seen as yet, moved with fear, prepared an ark to the saving of his house; by the which he condemned the world, and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.

All these men and women (if you continue to read the 11th chapter of Hebrews) had an eternal (a spiritual) perspective on things from the standpoint of faith.

 - Hebrews 11:1 - Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

 - 2 Corinthians 4:18 - While we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal (spiritual).

God is eternal (spiritual), and must be worshipped (entered into fellowship with) by and through faith from an eternal (spiritual) standpoint and/or perspective.

 - John 4:24 - God is a Spirit: and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth.

 - Hebrews 11:6 - But without faith (eternal and spiritual discernment) it is impossible to please him.

By faith, which begins with a spiritual rebirth (John 3:3, John 3:7), you can have exactly what they had in the 11th chapter of Hebrews. It's glorious...

   

Phil3:10:
Kat,
Your post on how spiritual beings might see was beautifully thought out and expressed. I am not sure right now where it is in the Bible but to paraphrase it somewhat I will try. Eye has not see, nor the mind of men conceived the blessings GOD has in store for HIS called out ones. We can only imagine!
Phil 3:10

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