The Use of ‘kosmos’ in this Kosmos-Ruah Metaphor (KRM)
The word ‘Kosmos’ is used 187 times in the New Testament. See all of them (here). In many of the examples ‘kosmos’ appears to be used to refer to our spirit, unsaved spirit or perhaps the vast ‘sea’ of unsaved spirits. This adds weight to the use of ‘kosmos’ for the ‘ruah’ of man in the KRM.
John 15:19-If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you. Here, the world seems to be referring to the world (kosmos) as the unsaved.
John 3:16-For God so loved the world (kosmos) that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. The famous verse, did God so love the plants and animal life that they would have everlasting life or was this world (kosmos) the whole ‘sea’ of fallen souls?
John 14:17-Even the Spirit of truth; whom the world (kosmos) cannot receive, because it seeth him not, neither knoweth him: but ye know him; for he dwelleth with you, and shall be in you. Here, kosmos seems to be applying again to all the unsaved souls
John 8:12-Then spake Jesus again unto them, saying, I am the light of the world: (kosmos) he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall have the light of life. I suggest, Jesus was not the physical light of the physical world , the Sun was, making this consistent with world (kosmos) being a spiritual.