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1 | SOUL AND SPIRIT | James 2:26 | speedy | 38 | ||
WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SOUL AND THE SPIRIT? DO ANIMALS HAVE A SOUL AND A SPIRIT? | ||||||
2 | SOUL AND SPIRIT | James 2:26 | Jh2 | 48401 | ||
I have by no means an answe to your question, but I think it would be fruitfull to corespond on the subject.Me and my father, wich is a theologian have been discussing the subject latly, and have found various scriptures that cover the subject spirit (human spirit). To specify spirit, I will say taht I do not speak about the Holy Spirit, nor spesific spirits, like the spirit of poverty or the spirit of adaultery etc etc. Teh human spirit is in question quite a number of times thrughout both the old and the new testament. I will point to several of theese scriptures as I go on. 1. tess 5:23 is the only place that the bible states all thre parts of the human in the same passage. This is enough to state that soul and spirit is two different things. To different parts of the human beeing. This is an importat distinction to make from the start. If you go to theological books you will find that the spirit part of the human beeing has been neglected to a great extent. So what is the function of the spirit? We know that the soul and the body operates in two differen sferes. They are different in every aspect. You can not use the body to feel sorrow, and you can not pick up deck of cards with your soul. Still they are somewath conected. They interact through som kind of transmission og information. So what does this do for our mind: could it be that th spirit is a third dimention in the human beeing. A dimention that is totaly different from the sfere of the body and the soul. And if so, what will this sfere contain? Lets take a look at some of the passages that speaks about the spirit. ex 35:21 says that his spirit urged him.. in other words, his spirit had an influence on him. (see also Job 32:18) Further on we can see that it is posible to controle ones spirit (1. cor 14:32), So the human spirit has a interaction with the soul (the will fo the man). In romans 12:11 Paul urges us to be fervent in spirit. This inplicaes that we must be able to influence our spirit in some way or another. Proverbs 20:27 clames that our spirit is the lamp with wich the Lord serches all the innermost parts of our being. So in some way there must be a dept of our personality or consious there. Psalm 77:6 says "And my spirit ponders". Furthermore in the psalms (142 - 143) it is refered to the spirit as somthing that the author can recognize the state of. He can say something about wich state his spirit is in. I think this is one of the major things we are hunting fore. To be able to define "our own spiritual state". The spirit is also connected to wisdom and knowledge. See Dan 5:12 and Job 20:3; 32:8. This is unfinished thoughts... But it is a start for further discussion. Please view it for what it is. The richest blessings in Christ! Jh2 |
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