People.... please.
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Get out your individual bibles and PLEASE... (ON BENDED KNEE HERE)... I am begging you to look at
1 Thessalonians 5:23 .
I say to get out your bibles because not everyone uses the same translation and so what I post from NSAB95
may vsry from yours.
1Thes 5:23
NASB 1995
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.
People.... do you want to take it up with God that He does not know how he made humans or do your want to take it up with Paul that he got it wrong... because if he got this wrong then he got a heck of a lot more wrong too.
1 Thes 5:23 mentions 3 different parts of man.... it is right there in front of your eyes.... Nothing about a soul and spirit being the same or a soul; and body...
See this link copied in full below. Bolding and size and color changes are mine. It is very easily understood... so much so that I bet Dick could explain it to Jane while throwing the ball for Spot......
The 3 Parts of Man—Spirit, Soul, and Body
In the opening they say...."In this post we’ll read an extremely helpful note on this verse in the
New Testament Recovery Version to help us understand these three parts."
THE HUMAN SPIRIT June 22, 2015
The 3 Parts of Man—Spirit, Soul, and Body
Human beings are complicated. Each one of us is unique; we come from various backgrounds and have different personalities.
But with respect to how God created us, we’re actually all the same. The Bible tells us in 1 Thessalonians 5:23 that we were all created with three parts—a spirit, a soul, and a body:
In this post we’ll read an extremely helpful note on this verse in the
New Testament Recovery Version to help us understand these three parts.
The three parts of man
Let’s take a look at note 5 on 1 Thessalonians 5:23 in the Recovery Version. Since this is a lengthy note, we’ll read it in sections.
The first part of the note says:
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:
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:
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.
Below is a simple diagram of three concentric circles illustrating these three parts. It shows the body as our outer, visible part; the soul as our inward part; and our spirit as our innermost, hidden part.
God’s intention for the three parts of man
Now let’s read the last section of the note, which explains God’s intention for all three parts of our being:
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.
Our cooperation with God’s saturating
How can we cooperate with God’s intention to saturate our whole being with Himself?
Exercising our spirit is the key. Not only does our spirit have the ability to contact and fellowship with God, it’s also the place where He lives in us. We can turn to Him in our spirit to live by His life. By means of our spirit we can also receive more of Christ each day. From this “base” of His operation in us, He can then spread into our soul. The more we receive Christ by exercising, or using, our spirit, the more God will have a way to spread into our soul.
We can daily exercise our spirit by
calling upon the name of the Lord,
reading and even
praying with God’s Word to be spiritually nourished, and obeying Him. The more we exercise our spirit, the more we allow the God of peace to continue spreading in us and saturating us. Then we’ll be able to express God to everyone around us.
The New Testament Recovery Version has a number of other enlightening notes on 1 Thessalonians 5:23, including an important one on how God preserves our spirit, soul, and body complete. If you live in the United States, you can order a free copy of the New Testament Recovery Version
here. We encourage you to read the notes and the verses they reference to gain a fuller understanding of what we’ve discussed in this post.
The book
The Economy of God is another invaluable resource on the subject of the parts of man. You can read the details in chapters 6 and 7 in the book, which you can download for free from anywhere in the world
here.