DEFINITION?
The Spirit The Spirit is the breath of God that supplies life to every living being. It is invisible and cannot be seen. But it is there all the same like a generator plant or the engine of a car transmitting life to the body. The truth is that all living beings, humans, animals, and plants posses the life-giving force call ‘spirit’. For without the spirit, there is no life. Death occurs only when the spirit departs from the body. It is the spirit who gives life; the flesh profits nothing. The words that I speak to you are spirit, and they are life. John 6:63 (NKJV) …for the letter kills, but the spirit gives life. 2 Corinthians 3:6 Another truth about the spirit is that it is the means through which God accesses man; it is also the means through which man can relate to God. This is because God is Spirit, He cannot relate with the flesh and soul of man due to their sinful inclination, as God cannot behold sin. Therefore, the spirit is the means through which God monitors the activities of man and relates with him. The Bible is replete with passages that lend credence to this postulation. I will cite just two of them: The spirit of man is the candle of the LORD, searching all the inward parts of the belly. Proverbs 20:27 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. 1 Corinthians 2:11 The Soul The Soul is the total sum of a person, comprising of his mind, his personality, his emotions, his habits (inborn and acquired), his experiences, his learning etc. It is a vast and complex bank of many things. But the three major components of the soul are the mind/mental faculty, the personality and the emotions of an individual. The soul is the total sum of man. It is who you really are, and it is “he” that influences most of the things you do at every point in time. It is a common knowledge that animals and plants don’t have soul. They only have the life-giving spirit that enables them to live, which when snuffed out, they cease to exist. Therefore, the reason man is superior to every other being is because of the soul he has, which affords him the privilege of reasoning and intelligent action. The Body The body, on its own part, is the container that houses both the spirit and the soul. The spirit is invisible and so cannot operate on the earth in its intangible state. That is why it must be housed in a body for it to be active. The soul, on the other hand, cannot express itself except through a body, because it is also invisible and intangible. Therefore, the body actually derives its life and importance from the power of the spirit and in the expression of the soul.
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