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Underneath all of my writing is an angle on the topic at hand. Website-creation tools like WordPress make it possible to organize such content. These organizational tools have names like Categories and Tags. It’s up to me as the website creator to decide what the individual designations under each name should be.
Faith is a Categories name I use that warrants an entire webpage. Under Faith, the designations for the 3 major tags I currently use are Spiritual, Biblical, and Evangelical. These are quite different things to me, even if they might otherwise seem quite similar to another individual.
| Incidentally and by way of example; up to this point, this blogpost only justifies my Tags name Technological. |
I use Spiritual to relate to the intangible, particularly in connection with higher powers. The term “intangible” is important because people call ghosts, both benevolent and malevolent, “spirits.” My use embraces the idea of ghosts. People also use “spiritual” to relate to personal essence, identity independent of the physical body, and in the context of major faith traditions. My use is general enough to embrace those ideas as well.
| Now this post earns the tag Spiritual. |
A blogpost I wrote (Hello?) uses the tag Spiritual in this broad sense because it involves the intangible. While it also happens to embrace Christian faith, Biblical and Evangelical didn’t apply because the post itself didn’t quite reach those levels of specificity.
I use Biblical to relate to Christian scripture (specifically “The Holy Bible”). That narrows the concept of Spiritual to something much more specific. I use the term often in the contexts of Christian scripture itself and of its teaching. A reference to the biblical gift of prophecy justified its use with this running-related blogpost: Things…
I use Evangelical even more specifically to relate to the declaration of a conviction as “good news,” something life-changing, primarily in the context of Christianity: Think “born again” or “saved.” In a postscript to Hello?, a reference to telling someone about Jesus justified the tag Evangelical.
I also have tags for Philosophical and Ideological (no blogposts on the latter, yet), both of which could be quite related to spiritual convictions. More on them in a different blogpost.
Again by way of example, I segue from the heretofore technological slant of this post.
The term “born-again” comes directly from the Bible: John 3.
| Biblical now just became a tag for this post. |
A blogpost about the subject matter of that passage and how the reader could become born-again would justify the tag Evangelical.
Here’s a final example. John 3 is life-changing good news to the person who can authentically embrace it, i.e., express with conviction in word and faithful confidence the following: “If you declare with your mouth, ‘Jesus is Lord,’ and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you profess your faith and are saved” (Romans 10:9-10 [ESV]).
| With that, Evangelical just became a tag. |
Revised: 2023’09’07’R (Refinement of writing with reformatting and minor reorganization. Increase of duration from 2½.)
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