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SPIRIT: What is it?
Genesis 2:7 (NASB)
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.
"and breathed" ...Hebrew 5301...naphach
"the breath" ...Hebrew 5397....neshamah
"of life" ...Hebrew 2416...chay
"a living"...Hebrew 2416...chay
"being" ....Hebrew 5315 ...nephesh ...the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man
Strong's Number H5315 matches the Hebrew (nephesh ),
which occurs 35 times in 32 verses
in Genesis in the Hebrew concordance of the NASB
E.G.
Genesis 35:18
It came about as her soul (H5315) (SPIRIT?)was departing (for she died),
COMPARE:
Gen 7:22
of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath "of the spirit" of life, died.
"of the spirit" ....Hebrew 7307...ruwach
"of life" ...Hebrew 2416...chay
Deu 2:30
for the LORD your God hardened his spirit (ruwach) and made his heart (lebab) obstinate,
Deu 4:29; 11:13
“But from there you will seek the LORD your God,
and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. (SPIRIT?)(H5315)
"your heart"...Hebrew 3824... lebab
Ecc 6:9
What the eyes see is better than what the soul (SPIRIT?)((H5315) desires. This too is futility and a striving after wind.
Let's do some Biblical math!
God created Man in His own SPIRITUAL Image, CHARACTER Likeness (Genesis 1:26)(ALL NASB)
God has no BODY.(sarx/soma) God has no SOUL.(nephesh / psyche)
God is pure SPIRIT.(ruwach / pneuma) (Worship Him in SPIRIT and in TRUTH) ...John 4:24
Man has a Body/Soul combo which is mortal. Jesus' Body/Soul combo bled to death/
Man has a SPIRIT which is immortal....which is "housed" in the Body/Soul combo. Jesus comitted his SPIRIT.
Hebrews 9:27 (ALL cites to NASB)
And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die (mortal Body/Soul combo) once
and after this comes judgment,(of immortal SPIRIT)
Soul (psyche) and SPIRIT (pneuma) are separate and different.
Hebrews 4:12
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 (psyche) and SPIRIT (pneuma),
of both joints and marrow,(Body?=sarx/soma)
and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the "heart".(center conscience?)
SPIRIT "communes" with and is "Housed" in the Body/Soul combo.
1 Corinthians 6:19
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you,
whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
of the heart...GREEK 2588...kardia...denotes the (INTERACTIVE) centre of all physical and spiritual lifeb.of the understanding, the faculty and seat of the intelligence c.of the will and character (CONSCIENCE?)
Ecclesiastes 12...Remember God in Your Youth: AT DEATH, SPIRIT returns to God
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth,
before the evil days come and the years draw near when you will say,
“I have no delight in them”;...
For man goes to his ETERNAL home while mourners go about in the street....
7 then the dust (body/soul) will return to the earth as it was, (Genesis 2:7)
and the SPIRIT (breath of life) will return to God who gave it. (Genesis 1:26)
8 “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher, “all is vanity!”
Isaiah 42:5 Thus says God the Lord,
Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread out the earth and its offspring,
Who gives breath to the people on it (Body/Soul combo)
And SPIRIT to those who walk in it,
Zechariah 12:1 ...Thus declares the Lord
who stretches out the heavens,
lays the foundation of the earth, and
forms the SPIRIT of man within him,(Body/Soul combo)
Psalm 139:14
I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works, And my soul (SPIRIT?) knows it very well.
Psalm 139:13
For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb.
Job 31:15
“Did not He who made me in the womb make him, And the same one fashion us in the womb?
1 Thessalonians 5:23
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.
THUS: ManKIND is divided into 3 parts:
1. SPIRIT = (~God conscience/ spiritual GOD Image = pneuma),
2. SOUL = (~personality / God CHARACTER~ Likeness = psyche) and
3. BODY = (~man's machine, controlled by brain bucket/CNS = sarx/SOMA)
The SOUL of Mankind (male and female) is also a DYNAMIC REACTION of its 3 parts:
1. MIND...the process of intellect...stored brain knowledge...its function is "thinking"/ THOUGHTS / "reasoning"
2. WILL...your decision maker...your computer-reactor...your balancer
3. EMOTIONS...how you "feel"...natural reactions / intuitive responses
The Body of Man has its 5 senses / sensors (maybe 6?) to interact with environment....Biology 101
The Soul of Man is the "snowflake" individual personality
which starts with some genetic predispositions and
is generally developed in and around the brain "bucket" and CNS electrical conductions...Psychology 101
The Spirit of Man searches for its Creator,..Bible 101
At the time of salvation, the battle begins:
OLD MAN: BODY / SOUL against God ...VERSUS... NEW MAN: BODY / SOUL / SPIRIT / Indwelling God The Holy SPIRIT.
Jewish tradition (?) believed that you:
1. KNOW in your "heart"...Spirit / conscience
2. FEEL in your "gut"...emotions
3. DECIDE in your "head"/brain...mind
MIND:
Proverbs 15:14
The mind of the intelligent seeks knowledge, But the mouth of fools feeds on folly.
The mind...Hebrew 3820...leb...I.inner man,...will, heart, understanding
Proverbs 18:15
The mind of the prudent acquires knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Matthew 22:37...And He said to him, “
‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
MIND...Greek 1271...dianoia...I.the mind as a faculty of understanding, feeling, desiring; IV.THOUGHTS, either good or bad
Romans 12:2
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,
so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Philippians 4:7
And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension,
will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
Genesis 2:7 (NASB)
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.
"and breathed" ...Hebrew 5301...naphach
"the breath" ...Hebrew 5397....neshamah
"of life" ...Hebrew 2416...chay
"a living"...Hebrew 2416...chay
"being" ....Hebrew 5315 ...nephesh ...the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man
Strong's Number H5315 matches the Hebrew (nephesh ),
which occurs 35 times in 32 verses
in Genesis in the Hebrew concordance of the NASB
E.G.
Genesis 35:18
It came about as her soul (H5315) (SPIRIT?)was departing (for she died),
COMPARE:
Gen 7:22
of all that was on the dry land, all in whose nostrils was the breath "of the spirit" of life, died.
"of the spirit" ....Hebrew 7307...ruwach
"of life" ...Hebrew 2416...chay
Deu 2:30
for the LORD your God hardened his spirit (ruwach) and made his heart (lebab) obstinate,
Deu 4:29; 11:13
“But from there you will seek the LORD your God,
and you will find Him if you search for Him with all your heart and all your soul. (SPIRIT?)(H5315)
"your heart"...Hebrew 3824... lebab
Ecc 6:9
What the eyes see is better than what the soul (SPIRIT?)((H5315) desires. This too is futility and a striving after wind.
Let's do some Biblical math!
God created Man in His own SPIRITUAL Image, CHARACTER Likeness (Genesis 1:26)(ALL NASB)
God has no BODY.(sarx/soma) God has no SOUL.(nephesh / psyche)
God is pure SPIRIT.(ruwach / pneuma) (Worship Him in SPIRIT and in TRUTH) ...John 4:24
Man has a Body/Soul combo which is mortal. Jesus' Body/Soul combo bled to death/
Man has a SPIRIT which is immortal....which is "housed" in the Body/Soul combo. Jesus comitted his SPIRIT.
Hebrews 9:27 (ALL cites to NASB)
And inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die (mortal Body/Soul combo) once
and after this comes judgment,(of immortal SPIRIT)
Soul (psyche) and SPIRIT (pneuma) are separate and different.
Hebrews 4:12
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 (psyche) and SPIRIT (pneuma),
of both joints and marrow,(Body?=sarx/soma)
and able to judge the thoughts and intentions of the "heart".(center conscience?)
SPIRIT "communes" with and is "Housed" in the Body/Soul combo.
1 Corinthians 6:19
Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit who is in you,
whom you have from God, and that you are not your own?
of the heart...GREEK 2588...kardia...denotes the (INTERACTIVE) centre of all physical and spiritual lifeb.of the understanding, the faculty and seat of the intelligence c.of the will and character (CONSCIENCE?)
Ecclesiastes 12...Remember God in Your Youth: AT DEATH, SPIRIT returns to God
Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth,
before the evil days come and the years draw near when you will say,
“I have no delight in them”;...
For man goes to his ETERNAL home while mourners go about in the street....
7 then the dust (body/soul) will return to the earth as it was, (Genesis 2:7)
and the SPIRIT (breath of life) will return to God who gave it. (Genesis 1:26)
8 “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher, “all is vanity!”
Isaiah 42:5 Thus says God the Lord,
Who created the heavens and stretched them out,
Who spread out the earth and its offspring,
Who gives breath to the people on it (Body/Soul combo)
And SPIRIT to those who walk in it,
Zechariah 12:1 ...Thus declares the Lord
who stretches out the heavens,
lays the foundation of the earth, and
forms the SPIRIT of man within him,(Body/Soul combo)
Psalm 139:14
I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
Wonderful are Your works, And my soul (SPIRIT?) knows it very well.
Psalm 139:13
For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb.
Job 31:15
“Did not He who made me in the womb make him, And the same one fashion us in the womb?
1 Thessalonians 5:23
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.
THUS: ManKIND is divided into 3 parts:
1. SPIRIT = (~God conscience/ spiritual GOD Image = pneuma),
2. SOUL = (~personality / God CHARACTER~ Likeness = psyche) and
3. BODY = (~man's machine, controlled by brain bucket/CNS = sarx/SOMA)
The SOUL of Mankind (male and female) is also a DYNAMIC REACTION of its 3 parts:
1. MIND...the process of intellect...stored brain knowledge...its function is "thinking"/ THOUGHTS / "reasoning"
2. WILL...your decision maker...your computer-reactor...your balancer
3. EMOTIONS...how you "feel"...natural reactions / intuitive responses
The Body of Man has its 5 senses / sensors (maybe 6?) to interact with environment....Biology 101
The Soul of Man is the "snowflake" individual personality
which starts with some genetic predispositions and
is generally developed in and around the brain "bucket" and CNS electrical conductions...Psychology 101
The Spirit of Man searches for its Creator,..Bible 101
At the time of salvation, the battle begins:
OLD MAN: BODY / SOUL against God ...VERSUS... NEW MAN: BODY / SOUL / SPIRIT / Indwelling God The Holy SPIRIT.
Jewish tradition (?) believed that you:
1. KNOW in your "heart"...Spirit / conscience
2. FEEL in your "gut"...emotions
3. DECIDE in your "head"/brain...mind
MIND:
Proverbs 15:14
The mind of the intelligent seeks knowledge, But the mouth of fools feeds on folly.
The mind...Hebrew 3820...leb...I.inner man,...will, heart, understanding
Proverbs 18:15
The mind of the prudent acquires knowledge, And the ear of the wise seeks knowledge.
Matthew 22:37...And He said to him, “
‘You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind.’
MIND...Greek 1271...dianoia...I.the mind as a faculty of understanding, feeling, desiring; IV.THOUGHTS, either good or bad
Romans 12:2
And do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind,
so that you may prove what the will of God is, that which is good and acceptable and perfect.
Philippians 4:7
And the peace of God, which surpasses all comprehension,
will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
