(August 23, 2010 at 6:30 pm)DiRNiS Wrote: I remember talking to an Evangelical Christian on the street a while back. He mentioned that the human body is composed of the physical body, the soul and the spirit.
If according to Christians, the soul is the essence of a person, and what remains after you die, what is the spirit to them exactly? What is the main difference between the "soul" and the "spirit?
Of course, when talking about the soul or spirit we are talking about the supernatural (people believing ghosts are the souls of deceased persons). But I am curious to know a bit more about it anyway.
I read a pamphlet from a missionary to India that talked about the triune nature of man and explained that the spirit is the undestroyable part of us that is housed in the soul which is then housed within the body. His idea was that after the body is dead, the soul would leave it along with the spirit inside and if the soul had not accepted Jesus it would disintegrate and the spirit would be reborn through some process that created another soul and body for it.
Rhizo
