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 "question": "What makes a person spiritual?",
 "answer": "Spirituality is being filled by means of the Holy Spirit - and it is an absolute. At any moment of time we are either one hundred percent filled by the Spirit and therefore spiritual, or we are not filled by the Spirit at all and are therefore carnal. There is no middle condition and no degrees.\n\nThis cuts against both of the usual answers. Some look to externals - the pious way a man dresses or talks, the things he does or does not do, the places he goes or refuses to go. Others treat spirituality as tapping into some higher power in the universe. Neither is what Scripture means.\n\nWhen we are filled by the Spirit we will show signs of fruit, and if we continue choosing to walk in the Spirit we will grow, the maturing fruit being the evidence of that growth. At no time can we produce the fruit of the Spirit in our own energy. Salvation is the once-for-all victory; spirituality is the ongoing victory.",
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 "lesson": "3-3",
 "lesson_title": "Spirituality and Carnality",
 "question_type": "definition",
 "tier": 1,
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  "What makes someone genuinely spiritual rather than just pretending to be?",
  "How do you know if you are truly being led by the Holy Spirit or just doing things on your own?",
  "Is being spiritual about what you wear or where you go, or is there something more to it?"
 ],
 "topic_anchor": "Spirituality",
 "derivation": "derived-definition",
 "source_authority": "authoritative",
 "author": "Gene Cunningham",
 "book": "The Basics",
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  "ref": "The Basics, Unit 3 - Spirituality (pp. 145-147)",
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  "Growth",
  "Salvation",
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  "illustration of Blessing",
  "Carnality",
  "Filling of the Spirit and fruit bearing",
  "character of Jesus Christ",
  "sphere of Power",
  "Divine production",
  "Indwelling",
  "Power",
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  "Filling of the Spirit, synonymous terms",
  "Good, divine",
  "Hebrew words for Faith",
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