I agree with you
Once you're born again in the Holy Spirit, the spirit ONLY convicts you of righteousness, correct? But if you're not saved you're still in the bondage of sin, correct? For example, if our spirit is ONE with the Holy Spirit and not our souls as you say..what if your mind told your conscience to take drugs, what if our emotions told our intuition to commit adultery AFTER WE'RE SAVED. Are we not responsible for our actions even after we're saved? Does God not Judge your spirit/intuition and soul/emotions for that. Is being convicted on earth and being judged at his throne after we die two different things?
You're forgetting that not everyone here is born of the Holy Spirit yet. This here is meant for unbelievers and the one's who lack Faith, they are not aligned with the Holy Spirit just yet, in order to be aligned one must repent first. All it TAKES is one from either soul or spirit to be sinful, one follows the other. Sin is sin no matter where it's coming from. Are these things not connected to your brain, heart, spirit and soul..
The Nature of the Holy Spirit is will, mind and emotions
The Function of the Holy Spirit is conscience, intuition and communion
Yes, the Holy Spirit convicts the believer of righteousness BUT NOT our righteousness, the righteousness of Christ. It is stated very plainly why, "because I (Jesus) go to the Father and you will see me no more." He prompts us to look at Jesus, behold Him and see righteousness, how righteousness behaves, talks, LOVES. He says look at your Savior, Redeemer, Lord. He has put His Spirit in you and made you a child of God, the Creator of the Universe, the Holy and Just God.
But sometimes we don't listen to that still soft voice of God speaking through the Holy Spirit.
I'm not sure how to respond to your example. I know I had a conscience and intuition before I was born again I believe that is how God made us, man right from the beginning. You know the whole golden rule and mother's intuition (knowing instinctively that something was wrong, like an urgent warning of impending danger). But I didn't knowledge God and that my wrong doings were a sin against God.
If we look at 1 Thes. 5:23 in the Greek we see that soul is the word (psyche) and spirit is (pneuma). Paul used a different Greek word. He did not say, and psyche and psyche or pneuma and pneuma so we know he wasn't repeating the phrase for emphasis. He was talking about two different things.
Think about the english words we derive from them. Pneuma in say Webster does in include the definition of the soul as well but when we look at what is says about the actual Greek, it simply says breath, wind. I think of Acts and the Holy Spirit.
Can the Holy Spirit influence my mind and emotions, surely, if I let Him, if I don't ignore Him. If you let your emotions lead the way in anything you are taking a big chance. Not that emotions are bad, quite the contrary. But they must line up with Jesus or they are not to be considered. In our minds we can contrive all kinds of sin walking in the flesh if we allow it but our spirit follow suit?
I think you just need to dig into the scripture and let the Holy Spirit teach you.
As for the people in these types of threads, I personally believe most all are Christians. They are born again with the indwelling of the Holy Spirit. Many have walk faithfully with the Lord for many years. They know their scripture and I respect their views and many times I have been lead by one or another to dig deeper.
