Body, soul, spirit: 1 Thess 5:23
Body, Soul:Mt 10:28; Isa 10:18
Body, Spirit:1 Cor 5:3, 6:20; Eph 4:4; Rom 8:10, 13; James 2:l
Soul, Spirit:Heb 4:12; 1 Cor 15:45
Lev 17:11,14, blood is the life of all flesh. Oxygen(brought by the breath of life) is the component needed for the blood to live and flow throughout the body. It is blood and oxygen that make up the two main components for bodily life. These are the same things every living creature possess today, blood and breath. Without one the other is useless. Does this mean every animal today is a living soul as we are(it should be noted that animals also have conscious thought)? If they are the same can animals be granted eternal life or eternal damnation? Why or why not? Or is there something more to our nature?
Genesis 2:7
7 And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
- The body was formed from dust and breath was put into it.
- Then man became a living soul. It was not the body that became a living soul(being combined with the breath) it was man who became a living soul within the body. It is not something seen or tangible it is simply the essence of man’s being, no man has power to touch the soul(Matt 10:28)
1 Timothy 6:13-16 God alone hath immortality.
Strong’s concordance Greek 110 Athanasia
immortality.
From a compound of
a (as a negative particle) and
thanatos; deathlessness -- immortality.
Thayer’s greek lexicon
1 timothy 6:16 where God is described as ὁ μόνος ἔχων ἀθανασίαν, because he possesses it essentially
The Lord alone is truly immortal, he alone hath immortality because he was neither created(Revelation 1:8; Revelation 22:13) nor can he destroyed( 2 Chronicles 20:6 1 timothy 1:17). While the Lord was killed in the flesh it was only because he allowed it to happen(John 10:18) and it was not spiritual death, only physical.
1 Peter 3:18-19
18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
19By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison;
While we humans were both created(genesis 2:7) and can be destroyed(Matt 10:28). True immortality is possessed essentially(meaning it is inherent immortality and not given) as God’s immortality is. None but God can ever claim to have always been or claim to never have been created. The immortal soul is eternal but it is both created(genesis 2:7) and can be destroyed if God wishes it to be(Matt 10:28) distinguishing it from the true immortality which God possess/is. .
The body is composed of two things that give it life, blood and breath. The body/blood returns to the dust of the earth(Genesis 3:19) and the breath returns to God(Ecclesiastes 12:7). It is the body and blood that dies without the spirit/breath of life(james 2:26). The living soul that was created(which is neither body/blood or breath) does not turn into dust neither does it go to the Lord. Instead it sleeps inside the dust of the earth(Daniel 12:2). So when the breath leaves the body it is a bodily death(first death Ecclesiastes 9:5-6,10) and not a spiritual one(second death Revelation 20:14-15).
Psuche
Thayers greek
c. the soul as an essence which differs from the body and is not dissolved by death (distinguished from τό σῶμα, as the other part of human nature (so in Greek writings from Isocrates and Xenophon down; cf. examples in Passow, under the word, p. 2589{a} bottom; Liddell and Scott, under the word, II. 2)):
Matthew 10:28, cf. 4 Macc. 13:14 (it is called ἀθάνατος, Herodotus 2, 123; Plato Phaedr., p. 245 c., 246 a., others; ἄφθαρτος, Josephus, b. j. 2, 8, 14; διαλυθῆναι τήν ψυχήν ἀπό τοῦ σώματος, Epictetus diss. 3, 10, 14); the soul freed from the body, a disembodied soul,
Acts 2:27, 31 Rec.;
Revelation 6:9;
Revelation 20:4 (Wis. 3:1; (on the Homeric use of the word, see Ebeling, Lex. Homer, under the word, 3, and references at the end, also Proudfit in Bib. Sacr. for 1858, pp. 753-805)).
Strongs 5590
soul, life, self
From
psucho; breath, i.e. (by implication) spirit, abstractly or concretely (the animal sentient principle only;
thus distinguished on the one hand from pneuma, which is the rational and immortal soul; and on the other from
zoe, which is mere vitality, even of plants: these terms thus exactly correspond respectively to the Hebrew
nephesh,
ruwach and
chay) -- heart (+ -ily), life, mind, soul, + us, + you.
pneuma
Thayers greek
b. a human soul that has left the body ((Babrius 122, 8)): plural (Latinmanes),
Hebrews 12:23;
1 Peter 3:19.
Strongs 4151
spirit, ghost
From
pneo; a current of air, i.e. Breath (blast) or a breeze; by analogy or figuratively, a spirit, i.e. (human) the rational soul, (by implication) vital principle, mental disposition, etc., or (superhuman) an angel, demon, or (divine) God, Christ's spirit, the Holy Spirit -- ghost, life, spirit(-ual, -ually), mind. Compare
psuche.
Man is Body, Soul, and Spirit. He is a Soul within a Body that is powered by the Breath of life.