Not exact matches
The reasoning
seems to be: since we
human beings show our power by
influencing or partly determining how
others behave, the ideal or divine power must be an ability to fully determine the behavior of
others.
No, what
seems most likely in light of
other uses of anathema in the Bible (See my Gospel Dictionary Course for explanation of these texts) is that certain Corinthian teachers were saying (while supposedly under the
influence of the Holy Spirit) that the reason Jesus died is because He was suffering the consequences for sin, or for living in a sinful,
human body.
Modern psychosomatic medicine has made some progress in analyzing along these lines; for example, it
seems quite possible that the emotional tone of my soul may directly alter the patterns of physical feeling in my stomach.4 Still, we should not suppose too quickly that the aims of a
human personality have any very effective direct
influence on the molecules of body cells,
other than those in the brain.
The points in this thread have filled in quite a few issues and it
seems to be narrowing down to the relative scales of the CO2 exchanges between the natural sinks / sources of CO2 in oceans, biosphere and soil moisture on the one hand and the
human influence on the the system on the
other hand.