WE ARE MORE THAN JUST BODIES!!
As spirit beings we live in the bodies our Elohim made for us in
the wombs of our mothers. The majority
of us are blessed with all of our five senses of hearing, seeing, touching, feeling and smelling. Our bodies
indicate to us their physical desires and also inform us when things are
not going well with them.
Due to the nature of the body, almost everyone understands certain
things about it, e.g. hunger must be satisfied, thirst must be quenched and the
calls of nature must be respected.
However, the majorities of people do not know or understand
anything about their spirits and souls housed in their bodies. They believe they are just their
bodies alone and no more. In addition, some take strong objections if they are
told any thing to the contrary.
OTHER SPIRITS VERSUS THE HUMAN SPIRIT!!
We have established that our spirits (spirit and soul) were not made in the wombs of our
mothers. They were sent from Heaven by
our Elohim when we were conceived.
We must also understand that the word “Spirit” has a wider meaning
than just the human spirit because there are different kinds of spirits which
operate in this world. Many who have had encounters with other spirits,
including hostile spirits, can attest to this fact.
I checked the word “Spirit”
in Virtue’s English Dictionary page 829, and there “Spirit” is described as:
“. . . The intelligent,
immaterial, and immortal part of man; the soul as distinguished from the body
which it occupies;
a person considered with
respect to his mental or moral characteristics;
the human soul after it has quitted the body; an apparition;
a spectre; a ghost; a
supernatural being;
an angel; elf [small
fairy, mischievous little creature] sprite [fairy], demon or the like . . .”
I also checked the in the Cruden’s Complete Concordance on the
word “Spirit” and this is what is recorded on
page 626:
“In Hebrew, Spirit is called Ruach and in Greek: Pnuema, wind, air.
“[1] For the Holy Ghost,
the third person of the Trinity.
“[2] For the renewed nature, or the spiritual part in man. Matthew
26:41.”
[In that Text Matthew 26: 41,
it says: “The spirit indeed is
willing but the flesh is weak.” ]
“[3] Signifies the soul which continues in being after the death
of the body. Acts 7:59 , 60.
[Here in Acts Stephen’s last words are recorded as he was about to expire. He cried unto
Yahweh and said: “Lord receive my spirit.
. . And when he had said this, he fell asleep.” ]
“[4] [Good angels are called spirits. Hebrew 1: 14.”
[This text in Hebrews 1: 14 , says:
“Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them
who shall be heirs of salvation?” ]
“[5] The devils are often called unclean spirits, evil spirits.
Mark 5:13.; Luke 7: 21 . So in 1 Samuel 18:10.”
[In Mark 5: 12, 13 it says:
“And all the devils
besought him, saying, Send us into the
swine, that we may enter into them. And
forthwith [Yahushua] Jesus gave them leave. And the unclean spirits went out,
and entered the swine.”]
[And in 1 Samuel 18:10 it says:
“And it came to pass on
the morrow, that the evil spirit from [Elohim] God came upon Saul.”]
“[6] Spirit signifies an
apparition or ghost. Matthew 14:26, Luke 24:37, 39”.
[In this account the
disciples were troubled because they thought Yahushua was a ghost or
spirit, when they saw Him walking on the
sea and again after His resurrection when He appeared among them. Yahushua
assured them that it was He because a spirit does not have flesh nor
bones.]
“[7] For the breath, the respiration, the animal life that is in
beasts. Ecclesiastes 3:21”.
“[8] Spirit is also taken for the wind. Amos 4: 13.
He that createth the wind, or spirit.
These are the four spirits of the heavens, in Hebrew, winds, Zech. 6:5.
And in John 3:8, The wind bloweth where it listeth. In Greek, pneuma, the
spirit.”
THE SOUL
The Soul: The advanced Oxford
“Non-material part of a person, believed to
exist for ever. . . ”
Virtue’s English Dictionary,
page 821 describes the soul as:
“The spiritual and
immortal part in man; the immaterial spirit which inhabits the body; the moral
and emotional part of man’s nature; the seat of the sentiments or feelings; the
animating or essential part; the vital principle.”
In Cruden’s Complete
Concordance the following is written about the Soul:
“This word is used in
the Bible in much the same variety of senses as it is used today. The Hebrews used the word rather more
generally, and the renderings of Hebrew expressions given in the Bible
frequently contain the word when it does not appear in the text, but some other word,
as mind, life or persons, is used.
Frequently where the
word soul is used in the Authorised or ‘King James’ Version the revisions have
changed to life”.
In Encyclopedia Britannica a great deal is written about the soul
from which the following quote is taken:
“soul in common usage,
an immaterial principle or aspect that, with the body, constitutes the human
person…
The human soul has been
thought by some to be both the spring and core of bodily life and the functions
and also the seat of the highest mental activities.” –Micropaedia Vol. 9, page 363.
In the Oxford
“non-material part of a person, believed
to exist forever.”
From these references we see what the scholars have to say about
the human soul and how it is regarded.
We see that it plays a very dominant role in our lives as the Encyclopedia Britannica page 363, puts it:
“… with the body [the soul]
constitutes the human person.”
There are many references made to the soul and the numerous ways
in which it is used. It often refers to
a person and to the actions and attitudes of people. An example of this is:
Some people will refer to a mean and selfish person as being
“without a soul”.
On the other hand, a kind, loving and caring person will be
referred to as a “good soul”.
In the Holy Scriptures much is written about the soul. It applies to the human person as well as the
spirit, the true person. A few examples are:
“And [Yahweh Elohim] 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”. Genesis 2:7.
“[Yahweh] The LORD redeemeth the soul of his servants: and none of them
that trust in him shall be desolate”. Psalm 34:22.
“Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul
of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die”. Ezekiel 18:4.
There are many things written about various aspects of the soul in
the Holy Bible and in books on the subject.
The same applies to the spirit of man on which many things are also
written.
In the next Post we will focus our
attention on the human spirit and soul because there seems to be so much
mystery and ignorance about these very vital and important parts of our being.
NB; SCRIPTURES USED IN THIS POST ARE TAKEN FROM FROM THE KING JAMES VERSION OF THE BIBLE, UNLESS OTHERWISE STATED.
