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Please Turn To:. Genesis 1:24-31. Man – A Threefold Being. 1 Thessalonians 5:23. Some Conclude Man a “Two-Fold Creature”. Soul & Spirit Same Thing in 1 Thessalonians 5:23? Why would Inspiration in Hebrews 4:12 talk about “division of soul & spirit” if they are the same thing?
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Please Turn To: Genesis 1:24-31
Man – A Threefold Being 1 Thessalonians 5:23
Some Conclude Man a “Two-Fold Creature” • Soul & Spirit Same Thing in 1 Thessalonians 5:23? • Why would Inspiration in Hebrews 4:12 talk about “division of soul & spirit” if they are the same thing? • Text compares distinguishing between “joints & marrow.” • Must be Some Distinction • Matthew 10:28 Soul & Body Different
Creation • Genesis 1:26,28 • After God’s Image- • “resemblance; hence, a representative figure.” “copy…vivid representation.” • Likeness- • “resemblance…like.” “the same form; shape; semblance.”
Something about Man is a Copy or Vivid Representation of the Members of the Godhead • What FORM are They in? • John 4:24 “God is Spirit….” • NOT say God HAS A SPIRIT – GOD IS SPIRIT • This is the part of man made in His image • Does not refer to Flesh & Bones – Luke 24:39 • Higher part of man distinguishes him from animal world, and is eternal
From the Dust of the Ground • Genesis 2:7a • Genesis 1:26,27 “Man & Woman” in His image • Man formed FIRST, then WOMAN • First Chapter = ETERNAL part of man • Second Chapter = REST OF MAN
From the Dust of the Ground • 1 Corinthians 15:44 • “..a natural body,” and “a spiritual body.” • Vs. 50 “flesh & blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God…” • BODY = part of man comes from DUST which Genesis 3:19 says will RETURN TO DUST whenever we DIE!
Creation • Genesis Chapter 2 • Breath of Life • Genesis 2:7 NKJV 7 And the LORD God…, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.” • Makes a LIVING SOUL vs. 2b (ASV)
TWO THINGS Man shares with the ANIMALS • A BODY – decays & returns to the ground from whence it came • A SOUL- which is to say, the BREATH OF LIFE! • Genesis 1:20 “living creatures” • “Creatures”- lit. SOULS. Same word used in Genesis 2:7 • Ecclesiastes 3:18-21 “all have one breath; man has no advantage over beasts…”
TWO THINGS Man shares with the ANIMALS • 1. BOTH DIE & RETURN TO DUST! • 2. BOTH have BREATH! {same as SPIRIT in the Old Testament} • But NOT TOTALLY ALIKE! • God gave Man Preeminence over ALL of Creation – Genesis 1:26
MAN & BEAST MAN ONLY
Words Concerning Nature of Man • SOUL- • O.T. Hebrew NEPHESH • N.T. Greek PSUCHE
Words Concerning Nature of Man • SOUL- • O.T. Hebrew NEPHESH • Soul, living being, life… desire, appetite, emotion, passion… that which breathes… animal, the soul.” {BDB}
Words Concerning Nature of Man • SOUL- • N.T. PSUCHE • “the breath of life, the vital force which animates the body… the soul, the seat of feelings, desires, affections, aversions… the soul as an essence which differs from the body & is not dissolved by death.” {Thayer}
Words Concerning Nature of Man • SOUL- • Two Senses of the word in both Old and New Testaments: • 1. Temporal- Psalm 63:9 • 1 Thessalonians 2:8 • Romans 11:3
Words Concerning Nature of Man • SOUL- • Two Senses of the word in both Old and New Testaments: • 2. Eternal- Psalm 16:10 • Acts 2:27,31 Soul is called the part that lives on • Matthew 10:28
Words Concerning Nature of Man • SOUL- • 2. Eternal- Psalm 16:10 • Matthew 10:28 • Kill – put to death • Destroy – loss; not of being but wellbeing.” • James 5:20
Words Concerning Nature of Man • SPIRIT- • O.T. Hebrew RUWACH • N.T. Greek PNEUMA
Words Concerning Nature of Man • SPIRIT- • O.T. Hebrew RUWACH • The living breathing being… as the seat of emotion, desire.” BDB • N.T. Greek PHEUMA • “vital principle by which body is animated.. Disposition or influence which fills & governs the soul of anyone.” Thayer
Words Concerning Nature of Man • SPIRIT- • Two Concepts • Temporal – • 1 Samuel 30:12 “spirit” = “strength” • Job 27:3 “spirit” “breath of God” • John 11:33 “seat of emotion” • Acts 17:16 “spirit” that which is angered, thus emotions • Temporal part of ALL who have breath of life
Eternal or Immortal Part of Man • Ecclesiastes 12:7 “spirit will return to God Who gave it.” • Matthew 27:50 “yielded up His spirit” • Acts 7:59 “receive my spirit.” • 1 Corinthians 5:5 “saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.”
Hebrews 4:12 • Soul {breath of life} taken from Body – Spirit Departs! • James 2:26 “For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.” • Which One Leaves FIRST? • Only God Knows!