The Bible indicates that the spirit is the holy place in man's soul, and that this portion of the soul of the individual can be made alive by the presence of God's SPirit in the human spirit. You would have us believe that we walk the earth with no spirit in our soul until some moment when God gives us a spirit for our believing in Him (Jesus) as our Soter, our deliverer. Go argue with your image in the mirror. You will get more out of it than expecting me to awaken you through your efforts to ignore reason and common sense.
I don't want to argue. I want to see evidence from scripture for statements you're making...that's all.
The Bible indicates that the spirit is the holy place in man's soul, and that this portion of the soul of the individual can be made alive by the presence of God's SPirit in the human spirit.
On this I think someone constructed this hypothesis based on scant evidence and wrong assumptions. I think that you're simply repeating it without really understanding how it contradicts scripture.
You would have us believe that we walk the earth with no spirit in our soul until some moment when God gives us a spirit for our believing in Him (Jesus) as our Soter, our deliverer.
Biblically it works like this:
Gen 2:7 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.
We are made of dead stuff. Elements, atoms, etc that have no life. God gives us a paranormal "something" that gives us life. Call it a spirit but it's NOT the same spirit as the holy spirit. These two thing combined give us our soul....which isn't unique to people.
Gen 1:20 Then God said, “Let the waters abound with an abundance of living creatures, and let birds fly above the earth across the face of the firmament of the heavens.”
The words translated "soul" in gen 2:7 and "living creatures" in gen 1:20 is the same word...nephesh. It means a soul...a living breathing creature man or not.
God certainly has given man a different component than animals...a different spirit. But that spirit is NOT the holy spirit of God and it certainly is not dead or else we would be dead.
I think where we maybe conflicting is that you believe that man has an immortal or an eternal soul. In other words, that man has eternal life inherent within our souls even before God gives us his holy spirit. This just isn't so. We are for all intents and purposes walking around dead. We're made of dead material that is ONLY alive because the power of God sustains us.