@TastingFreedom:
As a JW, the definition of spirituality is very limited and narrow minded. But I have realized that I'm a spiritual person even as an Agnostic. Watchtower's use of the word is completely wrong, and only used to benefit their own agenda. It's a loaded word with the incorrect meaning.
People can define words as they please, and I don't just mean Jehovah's Witnesses, mind you, but even you are free to do so as well. If you and I were discussing the pleadings that one files in a courtroom called "motions," and the two of us understood what the other meant and the judge also understood what we meant when we used this word, there wouldn't likely be anyone thinking that by "motions" that any of us would be discussing a formal proposal (e.g., when voting) or movement involving a change of location, even if a seemingly imperceptible one. It is evident that you believe a spiritual person can be an agnostic, which is fine, but I would tell you that it isn't the case that someone that professes to be a Christian is automatically a spiritual person. I'd also say that just because someone attends church every Sunday, tithes a tenth of their income to their church and has even been baptized as a Christian doesn't necessarily make that individual a spiritual person.
Regarding the natural man, the physical man -- it says he doesn't receive anything of the spirit of God because to him all of such things are foolishness, so he can't get to know them, he doesn't understand them, he perceives spiritual things to be foolish. That is why such persons don't have God's favor: They don't have God's point of view. But regarding the spiritual man, the apostle Paul states at 1 Corinthians 2:14, 15, using the KJV Bible, that he "judgeth all things." One way to describe him, he is a God-oriented person.
So the spiritual man understands spiritual things, examines them, comprehends them, judges all things, because, unlike the natural man, he receives the things of the spirit of God, he examines all things, he perceives them and consequently is able to look at things from God's point of view. For this reason, his opposite -- the natural or physical man -- does not see things from God's point of view, he cannot see things from God's viewpoint, and being unable to comprehend spiritual things, he is in no position to judge the spiritual man.
However, at1 Corinthians 3:1-3, Paul wrote:
"And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, [even] as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able [to bear it], neither yet now are ye able. For ye are yet carnal: for whereas [there is] among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?"
Did you notice what Paul called those Christians? Three times he uses a certain word to describe them. What kind of Christians did he say they were? He said that they were "carnal" or fleshly Christians. At Romans 8:6-8, the apostle goes on to write:
"For to be carnally minded [is] death; but to be spiritually minded [is] life and peace. Because the carnal mind [is] enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God."
If you were to read Colossians 3:5, which states --
"Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry."
-- then you would know that we should not be trying to satisfy certain fleshly cravings that we might have, that all such should be "mortified," for there are certain things that appeal to the sensory organs, that is to say, to sight, smell, hearing, taste and touch, should be 'mortified.'
So in a nutshell, a spiritual person must have God's point of view, and so he cannot be an agnostic, since an agnostic doesn't know God. I'm giving here my opinion, of course, just as you have given your opinion of what you believe constitutes one a spiritual person, but the word "spiritual" is not a loaded one, the phrase itself, not "loaded," that is, in my opinion, for either one defines what a spiritual person is according to how the Bible defines the phrase, or one opts to reject the Bible's definition for some other definition, and how one defines this word or this phrase depends upon whose point of view one embraces.
@djeggnog
