We are Body, Soul and Spirit
05 Apr '12 23:452 editsOriginally posted by DasaDasa you are almost right but not exactly. At least you have a better idea than do the
This is incorrect.
The soul and the spirit is the same thing.
That only leaves us with the soul and the body.
The soul does not interact with others - because the soul is asleep and has given power of attorney over to the mind and body and false ego and material intelligence and the sense,s.
The materialistic person with his body is only a puppet i ...[text shortened]... ted from this dreaming condition - that is when true joy, love, bliss and eternality is enjoyed.
Jehovah's Witnesses, who think the body and the soul are the same. Let me first give you
some background information from the Holy Bible.
At the creation of man we are told:
Then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the
breath of life; and man became a living being.
(Genesis 2:7 NASB) The KJV translates this man became a living soul.
After the first man disobey, God speaks to him:
Then to Adam He said, “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife, and have
eaten from the tree about which I commanded you, saying, ‘You shall not eat from it’;
Cursed is the ground because of you; In toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; and you will eat the plants of the field;
by the sweat of your face you will eat bread, till you return to the ground,
because from it you were taken; for you are dust, and to dust you shall return.”
(Genesis 3:17-19 NASB)
Christ tells His disciples,
"Do not fear those who kill the body but are unable to kill the soul; but rather fear
Him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell."
(Matthew 10:28 NASB)
"It is the Spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing; the words that I have spoken
to you are spirit and are life."
(John 6:63 NASB)
Christ says, "God is spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth.”
(John 4:24 NASB)
Paul writes to the church of the Thessalonians:
"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."
(1 Thessalonians 5:23 NASB)
Paul writes to the church of the Corithians:
"For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building
from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens." ...
"Therefore, being always of good courage, and knowing that while we are at home in the
body we are absent from the Lord—for we walk by faith, not by sight—we are of good courage,
I say, and prefer rather to be absent from the body and to be at home with the Lord.
Therefore we also have as our ambition, whether at home or absent, to be pleasing to Him.
For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, so that each one may be
recompensed for his deeds in the body, according to what he has done, whether good or bad."
(2 Corithians 5:1,6-10 NASB)
And to the Hebrews the following is written:
For the word of God is living and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, and
piercing as far as the division of soul and spirit, of both joints and marrow,
and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
(Hebrews 4:12 NASB)
Christ speaks about unclean spirits to the scribes and Pharisees:
“Now when the unclean spirit goes out of a man, it passes through waterless places seeking
rest, and does not find it. Then it says, ‘I will return to my house from which I came’;
and when it comes, it finds it unoccupied, swept, and put in order. Then it goes and takes
along with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and live there;
and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first. That is the way it will also
be with this evil generation.”
(matthew 12:43-45
christ casts out unclean spirits from a demon possessed man.
They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes. When He got
out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him, and he
had his dwelling among the tombs. And no one was able to bind him anymore, even with a
chain; because he had often been bound with shackles and chains, and the chains had been
torn apart by him and the shackles broken in pieces, and no one was strong enough to
subdue him. Constantly, night and day, he was screaming among the tombs and in the
mountains, and gashing himself with stones. Seeing Jesus from a distance, he ran up and
bowed down before Him; and shouting with a loud voice, he said, “What business do we have
with each other, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I implore You by God, do not torment me!”
For He had been saying to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!” And He was
asking him, “What is your name?” And he *said to Him, “My name is Legion; for we are many.”
And he began to implore Him earnestly not to send them out of the country. Now there was a
large herd of swine feeding nearby on the mountain. The demons implored Him, saying, “Send
us into the swine so that we may enter them.” Jesus gave them permission. And coming out,
the unclean spirits entered the swine; and the herd rushed down the steep bank into the sea,
about two thousand of them; and they were drowned in the sea.
Their herdsmen ran away and reported it in the city and in the country. And the people came
to see what it was that had happened. They came to Jesus and observed the man who had been
demon-possessed sitting down, clothed and in his right mind, the very man who had had the
“legion”; and they became frightened. Those who had seen it described to them how it had
happened to the demon-possessed man, and all about the swine. And they began to implore
Him to leave their region. As He was getting into the boat, the man who had been
demon-possessed was imploring Him that he might accompany Him. And He did not let him, but
He said to him, “Go home to your people and report to them what great things the Lord has
done for you, and how He had mercy on you.” And he went away and began to proclaim in
Decapolis what great things Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed.
We can see from these verses from the Holy Bible that there is a definite distinction
between body and soul and spirit. Only God can divide the soul from the spirit and
destroy the soul. But man can kill the body. There are also unclean spirits of demons
that can invade a man's body and take control.
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