Hello to you seekinghiswisdom,
Thank you for your interesting take, I agree that our body does die and is buried, and while we are here our soul can become ruined.
So is the soul me inside my body the spirit of man?
Just curious, cause i see the soul as the spirit; but the soul can become ruined, but never destroyed completely cause that soul is God given its what moves this body around?
You know? Am i the soul named Matthew or am i the spirit named Matthew thats what im confused about.
Thank you,
Matthew
Hi Matthew,
No, the soul within you are separate from tyour spirit.
Our God is a triune God. God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit.
Likewise we are triune beings... most likely created this way when God said "Let us make man, in OUR image"
I could be wrong on that... it is merely a surmise of mine.
Never the less, there is biblical support for man being 3 parts.
Even from Paul in 1 Thes 5:23 when he said...:23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you entirely; and may your spirit and soul and body be preserved complete, without blame at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
SPIRIT AND SOUL AND BODY.
3 parts.
Every living person and all those who have gone before us know we all have/had a body. That is never questioned.
Many of those have heard that we also have a soul.
Few have ever heard that we not only have a spirit, but we are spirits.
From the link:
The 3 Parts of Man—Spirit, Soul, and Body
The
human spirit is the deepest part of a person.
By means of this innermost part, we can contact God in the spiritual realm. No other creature was created by God with this third part.
Now let’s read the next section of the note, which explains our soul:
“The
soul is our very self (cf. Matt. 16:26; Luke 9:25), a medium between our spirit and our body, possessing self-consciousness, that we may have our personality.”
Our soul perceives things in the psychological realm. In fact, in Greek—the original language of the New Testament—the word for
soul is
psuche, which is also the root word of
psychology.
Our soul is our personality, who we are. With our soul we think, reason, consider, remember, and wonder. We experience emotions like happiness, love, sorrow, anger, relief, and compassion. And we’re able to resolve, choose, and make decisions.
Now let’s read the next section about our body and how our three parts are related:
“The
body as our external part is the outer organ, possessing world-consciousness, that we may contact the material world. The body contains the soul, and the soul is the vessel that contains the spirit.”
Our body exists in and contacts the tangible things of the material world using our five physical senses. The body is the visible, external part of our being, and it contains the soul. Our soul is the vessel containing our spirit.
Lastly, and admittedly can be a bit confusing.
“In the
spirit, God as the Spirit dwells; in the
soul, our self dwells; and in the body, the physical senses dwell. God sanctifies us,
first, by taking possession of our
spirit through regeneration (John 3:5-6);
second, by spreading Himself as the life-giving Spirit from our spirit into our
soul to saturate and transform our soul (Rom. 12:2; 2 Cor. 3:18); and
last, by enlivening our mortal
body through our soul (Rom. 8:11, 13) and transfiguring our body by His life power (Phil. 3:21).”
God’s intention concerning us is that we would
contain and
express Him. But to express God, we need to be filled with Him. When we believed in Jesus Christ, we received Him and were regenerated, or
born again, in our spirit. But He doesn’t want to only fill our spirit. That’s just the beginning.
1 Thessalonians 5:23 tells us, “The God of peace Himself sanctify you
wholly.” He sanctifies us by spreading into and saturating our whole being, starting from our spirit, continuing into our soul, and eventually including our body. By being wholly filled with God in every part of our being, God can be expressed through us.
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SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR YOU?
THIS IS SAYING THAT YOU ARE MATHEW, THE SPIRIT... God given from birth.
AND YOU LIVE IN A BODY AND YOU HAVE A SOUL.
IOW YOUR SPIRIT AND YOUR SOUL LIVE IN A BODY.