Originally Posted by
alanmolstad
The main issue in a good understanding of the term "Spirit" is that the meanings change according to the context the term is used within.
As writers of the books of the Bible also struggled with talking about the "spirit" and that is how we come to the understandings of "Ghost" and "Breath" and "wind".
For the terms ghost, spirit, wind, and breath all have one important thing in common, they all are invisible.
Being invisible, there is nothing a person can point to and say, "That there is just like the spirit"
You cant say that because the term spirit is talking about something that is not like anything else because it's invisible.
This is why many times people in the Bible will talk about what the spirit is not.
And example is when Jesus says that a spirit does not have flesh and bone.