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Consider the first claim, that God is a spirit, by itself.

What does this term " spirit " mean?

Please note: if we regard the above definition of " God " as a genus-and-difference definition, then the genus of God is " spirit ," since God is a particular kind of spirit.

The rest of the definition of " God " is supposed to tell us what kind of spirit God is.

Therefore, on anyone's account, if we do not understand what spirits are, then we have no grasp on what sort of thing God is.

So a great deal of philosophical and theological work on the nature of God surrounds the issue of the nature of the divine spirit and what its relationship to the world might be.