That is not my distinction, but the distinction made by Christ.
The problem is that you seem to be equating the soul with the spirit--which Christ does not do, but just the opposite. To the contrary, the scriptures combine the flesh with the soul, but neither with the spirit, as one must be born separately [again] of the Spirit.
So, no, the flesh of men is not born with that spirit that you seem to assume.
Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.
When God breathed into the body of flesh, then man became a living soul by the Spirit of God. The spirit of man is within the soul and is the mind of man: the mind of the spirit.
Your error is that flesh is born with anything other than flesh. You are putting the flesh first, and then the soul and spirit.
Man is not a body born with soul or spirit. Man is a soul with spiritual being in mortal body.
I believe I just answered this.
No, but the flesh being created in the image of God is, unlike God is flesh, but having a soul, which is the ability to choose to sin or not, which is the ability to choose life or death.
The flesh is not created in the image of God, but the living soul is. And so you confirm the error that man is a body of flesh having a soul.
And yet the flesh is born with this nature, not separate, but joined together by God in one body...making it not incorrect to say "born with a sin nature." If it were not so, there would be no need for a Savior, which need is established by God. Again, I get your point. But why dissect what God has joined together in one body of flesh?
And once again, you don't get the point. The only nature any flesh is born with is mortality, not that of sin nor righteousness, nor with ability to choose life or death. You make the physical body to be a person, and the child of the devil: a personal servant of his. It is the soul that gives himself to the devil to do his will.
The mind and heart of a soul is not the brain and bloodpump of the physical body: the flesh is nothing, and is not to blame for sins, but the soul moving the body is the judged for sinning with the flesh.
There would be no need for the Saviour, if souls born into mortal flesh did not sin with the flesh, but the first one did, and every other did. Because we are made flesh, unlike the angels, then we have opportunity to be reborn anew once more. The angels do not: if they sin they are forever condemned, and two-thirds of them have not.
Again, I get your point. But why dissect what God has joined together in one body of flesh?
Because God does: the immortal soul which sinneth, it shall die. Not the body which is made mortal from the beginning.
Being made mortal is natural and is good. There's nothing evil about God making His natural creation mortal.
The soul and body are not one flesh, because neither the soul nor the spirit are the mortal body:
And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
You are in error: the body and soul are not one flesh. As faith without works is nothing and dead, so is the body without the spirit and soul.
All bodies are made mortal and can be killed at any time, but only the soul which sinneth can kill the soul.
It is what Jesus said that makes sense. Therefore, I do not assume the flesh is born with the spirit, but rather that we must also be born [again] of the Spirit.
The flesh is born of flesh and with flesh only. All souls are created living by the Spirit of God from the beginning. Being born again is not in the flesh, nor with the flesh, but is the soul being made alive again as in the beginning: a new creature and start with the same mortal body.
The flesh is born with nothing other than flesh and is made of nothing other than dust.
Again, the scriptures do not say "The soul of man is a spiritual being created in God's image", but rather that the flesh is born with a soul--but not of the Spirit. To say otherwise is to call Jesus a liar. But this point of confusion...is simply a mistake that should be corrected to align with the whole word of God and Christ.
It is already show the body is not born with a soul nor with spirit, because the body will be killed, but not the soul, except it sinneth.
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
You speak of the flesh being born with a soul. It is not. The flesh is formed of dust, which is nothing and grass. When God breathes His Spirit into the flesh, then is the living soul born within the body: man is a living soul with a body, not a body with a soul.
The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly. The burden of the word of the LORD for Israel, saith the LORD, which stretcheth forth the heavens, and layeth the foundation of the earth, and formeth the spirit of man within him.
Man is a spiritual being with a spirit, which as you say flesh is not born of nor with. Flesh is made for man's soul and spirit to dwell in on earth for a season or mortal time of the body.
Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
All souls are made by God and for God and are God's. Not bodies of flesh that are just mortally made of dust: the body is the wood framing of the house. The soul and spirit are the life and mind living within the house.
There is no sin spirit nor nature of wood framing, nor of grass bodies.
As for being just like the animals...No, but like the animals having the breath of animals, but distinct from the animals by the dominion given by God to be over the animals by one difference--that is the ability to choose life and death in his soul.
No living creature is a body with a spirit, but a spirit created by God with a body. Men are living souls with spiritual being, not animals. That is why man has power and commandment to have dominion over the earth of all living creatures: man thinks, intends, and imagines. Aminals do not.
Man is lightened with the light of Christ when made a living soul in His image. Animals are not.
As for being "clothed in natural bodies"--it is not that Spirit of God that resides therein from birth. Yes, many refer to that breath of life given by God first in the garden as spirit, but Christ did not. This is error--error against the teachings of Christ.
The LORD was the Word with God and Christ, Who also made the covenant with Abraham by promise:
And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.
Thus, that life is not life according to God, therefore we must also be born [again] of that Spirit. That would-be life then is life unto death, rather than life unto life--which is not given to the flesh, whether man or animal. Meaning that the only thing that makes man different from the animals, is that he is created in the image of God which comes with the ability to choose life or death--this is a property unique to the soul of mankind for having been created in the image of God.
The mortal life of the body is not eternal life of God. That 'would-be-life unto death' is the mortal life of the flesh and all living creatures, including all mortal things in heaven and earth, both celestial and terrestrial.
Life unto life is I am, that I am: the eternal life of Christ that is in the soul of man, first living as a newborn babe from the womb, and then living again as a newborn babe in Christ.
All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. In him was life; and the life was the light of men. That was the true Light, which lighteth every man that cometh into the world.
Your doctrine is false. The life and light of Christ is breathed into every living soul created by Him, first with Adam in body of dust, and now with all men in fleshy wombs of women.
The mortal flesh is nothing and of no profit, but the immortal soul is everything:
It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
It is the spirit in man that moves the body of man, even as the spirit of all living creatures on earth in their natural bodies.
We are souls with bodies, not bodies with souls. All newborn souls are living and good without sin, all souls sinning are dead, and all souls not sinning are born and alive again.