Man is composed of
body
soul
spirit
which of these would YOU say the mind is?
The brain is physical, but the mind is the soul. I cannot be seen but we know we have a soul. In the O.T. the heart was at times called the spirit and the soul was at times called the heart. We cannot determine this by the O.T. but how theologians have concluded the make-up of man.
The above is what I've been taught by two different churches.
Where is the soul?
Where is the spirit?
It's the unseen part of us that makes us what we are. We all have the same body but we each have a different soul. Those that know God also have the spirit awakened to the knowledge of God.
The spirit is our "God consciousness".
When speaking biblically, we always mean the born again spirit of man.
As I said, the natural spirit of man just has to do with how he feels, biblically we always mean the born again spirit, the spirit that connects to God.
So when we move away from God we're speaking of the born again spirit.
If we move AWAY from God, we are no longer born again. We're in the same state we were before we met God. We cannot have His spirit if we don't want Him.
Well Taken, losing our salvation can only mean one thing...
If we die in that state, we are NOT going to be with God since we are not saved.
I have a different understanding.
1) the body of man is "created"...by God, from dust.
2) that body has all the physical components to function naturally.
3) one of the components is a BRAIN, that is used to think, reason, learn, logically weigh ideas, imagine, decides, store memory, etc.
4) the action of the BRAIN, as just described, IS what the MIND does.
5) the Brain also has other functions, via nerve connections, which signal the body parts to move, in particular ways, (walk, sit, turn your head, close your eyes, etc.)
6) Thus saying, the Brain is part of the natural body...and the Mind is part of the Brain with cognitive abilities.
1) the heart is also part of the natural body, so created.
2 ) the heart has within it, thoughts as well, as the BRAIN has thought, call the Mind.
3) the thoughts in the heart are in a mans spirit.
4) the thoughts in a mans spirit, are simply his truth.
5) a Mind can have both TRUE thoughts and LIE thoughts.
6) a spirit IS a mans TRUE thought.
So recapping...
The body is "created" by God, from dust.
The body has numerous parts.
The body can do nothing with out life in it.
...Once life is introduced into the body..
The Body has it's OWN "NATURAL" LIFE.
A Brain, with cognitive skills, called the MIND.
A Heart, with a spirit, called mans Truth.
A Blood, that is a mans natural life.
So we have these things, All parts of ONE BODY....Created BY God, from DUST.
and need a LIFE source to being this
BODY into a living state.
God BREATHES LIFE from His breath INTO the nostrils of a body.
Now another bodily function (lungs) begins operation, bringing the man natural body, INTO a Living state.
And the continuing of a mans LIVING state is possible, because God created mans habitat, Earth, WITH air required for a mans lungs TO operate.
Immediately after God breaths the breath of Life (His Life from Him) into a man...a man becomes ...A Living.....soul.
This IS KEY. What is a soul, and where did IT come from?
Scripture tells us God MADE souls....
And here are two different terms taught in Scripture....God "creates" and God "makes'.
Scripture tells us the soul thinks, grieves, feels, etc....
This indicates the soul is EMOTIONS.
And we are told, ALL souls belong TO GOD.
Recap -
The entire body, and it's parts are created.
Life from Gods breath, brings the body into a living condition.
The first time a SOUL is mentioned, is immediately after God blows life into a mans body.
The soul is a Living Spiritually MADE thing, that belongs to God, is given a man, and the man thereafter, is able to experience EMOTIONS.
The soul is not the mind. The mind is part of the natural man. The soul is living. The mans body is subject to death.
The mans natural life is HIS BLOOD.
When the mans natural life (blood) stops flowing, the natural body dies.
And the SOUL ? That is living, belongs to God, has all the thoughts of your emotions?
Still LIVING, and departs the dead body.
All body's go to a grave, tomb, lay in field, whatever....they stink, rot, decompose and become dust of the earth.
All souls belong to God, AND are called BY your same name, as your body.
God decides where living souls shall go. He has prepared TWO Places for living souls.
For the living soul that IS WITH HIM,
...it goes to be WITH HIM.
For the living soul that IS AGAINST HIM,
...it goes to a Place where it can BE WITHOUT HIM.
And the natural spirit of man?
IN his natural heart?
THAT is the precise spirit, that "IF" it believes in God and His Word, Christ Jesus;
God shall SPIRITUALLY give a man a NEW Heart.
God shall SPIRITUALLY RESTORE the mans SOUL, that has been emotionally subjected TO the mans CORRUPT BODY.
God shall CHANGE the mans "natural spirt, it's NATURAL truth", TO believing Gods SPIRITUAL TRUTH.
God accomplishes this BY "HIS SEED".
God PLANTS HIS SEED, in the mans NEW HEART.
Gods own Holy Spirit of HIS TRUTH dwells within the mans NEW HEART.
It is Gods own TRUTH, that is then fed to His Seed, that is planted, birthed, and growing.
The growth is a Spiritual growth IN continually receiving Gods TRUTH.
And a man WHO, does not receive Gods Seed?
His natural spirit, (truth), dies with his natural body.
THE whole big picture IS God is Spirit, man is bodily natural, with a soul from God, that bring the body into a living state.
Every man...believer or unbeliever....has a body, and a living soul (life) from God.
Every man...believer or unbelievers...has a body subject to DIE.
Men ...
CAN be forgiven for NOT having been naturally born believing, for corrupting their soul, for not believing in their natural spirit..
Men
CAN be forgiven BY God.
CAN have their body become spiritualy dead.
CAN have their soul restored.
CAN have their spirit born of Gods Seed.
CAN have the Holy Spirit of Truth feeding them.
CAN TRAIN their OWN carnal MIND, to be subject TO their NEW spirit.
ONCE that is accomplished...it is accomplished FOREVER.
You express you can exercise your freewill to UNDO your choice of Belief.
I ask you HOW can you do that?
WHAT YOU MADE your FREEWILL CHOICE WITH...NO LONGER EXISTS.
How can a natural heart....that made the freewill choice...unmake a choice...THAT natural heart no longer exists.
How does something that no longer exist MAKE A CHOICE about ANYTHING?
God Bless,
Taken
