Body, Soul, Spirit.....
As human beings, we live eternally as a Spirit, we have a Soul, and we dwell in a Body.
I pray God your whole ...’spirit and soul and body’... be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Thessalonians 5:23).
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of “soul and Spirit”, and of the joints and marrow (body), and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the HEART. (Hebrews 4:12).
The soul and spirit can be divided — and that it is ‘the Word of God’ that pierces our heart to bring the division of soul and spirit, something that only God can do.
“For You formed my inward parts; You wove me in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to You, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.”
As human beings, we live eternally as a spirit, we have a soul, and we dwell in a body.
I pray God “your whole spirit and soul and body” be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ (1 Thessalonians 5:23).
“My ‘soul’ doth magnify the Lord, And my ‘spirit’ hath rejoiced in God my Saviour” (Luke 1:46, 47).
She could not extol the Lord in her soul until she had recognized God in her spirit as her Saviour.
The initial triumph is in the spirit when Jesus Christ is acknowledged as personal.
David says: “He restoreth my soul” (Psalm 23:3).
... The Hebrew word translated “restoreth” is said to mean quite literally “turneth back.” ....At no time had David lost his salvation, but there were times when his affections and desires were turned from the Lord, as in the case of his sin with Bathsheba.
Having become one of the Divine Shepherd’s flock, he testified:
“The Lord turneth back ‘my soul’.
The Christian who is enjoying unbroken communion with his Lord will then be able to say, “Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name” (Psalm 103:1).
The problem is that the Bible doesn’t say that we have or are born with an “eternal” spirit or soul. What it does say is that when we accept Christ as our Savior we take on his immortal spirit as our own. None of your verses contradict that.
1Corinthians 15:54 “So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory.”
As for the disagreement between what makes us up (heart-physical, soul-spiritual, mind-thoughts or body, soul, and spirit) I don’t see that as changing anything about the destruction of the souls of the unsaved as mentioned in Revelation. That argument/discussion seems like arguing over how many angels can fit on the head of a pin and off the greater topic, eternal punishMENT or eternal punishING.
Well stated.