Oeste
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We only need substitute your definition for Spirit to see what this means:God is a Spirit and angels are spirits.
God is a impersonal "It" and angels are impersonal "its".
God IS the Spirit:True the word 'person' does Not appear but God and angels are spirit persons
Now Jehovah is the Spirit, and where the spirit of Jehovah is, there is freedom (2Cor 3:17 NWT)
Your definition of "Spirit" strips God of all personality, a necessary step if one is to adhere to WT theology. I can understand the need to attach the word "person" afterwards.
Please see Hebrews 9:24 because Jesus appears in the presence of God, and God has a home location 1st Kings 8:39
The "home location" for God was once thought by the Watchtower to be in the Pleiades star system:
The constellation of the Pleiades is a small one compared with others which scientific instruments disclose to the wondering eyes of man. But the greatness in size of other stars or planets is small when compared with the Pleiades in importance, because the Pleiades is the place of the eternal throne of God.” Reconciliation page 14. Note "Reconciliation is a Watchtower publication.
However, by 1953, the WT considered it unwise to affix God's throne to any particular place, blaming the Pleiades debacle on "private interpretations" that were being offered by "some" in the Organization:
Some attribute striking qualities to these constellations or star groups and on the basis of such they then offer private interpretations of Job 38:31, 32 that amaze their hearers. Their views are not always sound from the standpoint of astronomy, and when viewed Scripturally they are completely without foundation...
Incidentally, Pleiades can no longer be considered the center of the universe and it would be unwise for us to try to fix God’s throne as being at a particular spot in the universe. Watchtower, Questions From Readers, 11/15/53
The end result is that God having a "home location" is now passe.
Like God's spirit (Numbers 11:17,25) is an impersonal "it" so is our spirit an "it"
Based on your definition of "spirit", God is an impersonal "it" (John 4:24) , His angels are impersonal its, and we can confidently say that as Christians we all have the very same "impersonal spirit of God"!
What a sad state of affairs if God is without feelings or personality, and how much more wretched are we if our Savior was raised as an impersonal it (spirit) creature.