Every living body—vegetable, lower animal, human—has a life principle, a soul, which animates a given body. However, unlike vegetables or animals, our soul is also uniquely a spirit. And just as ours is the only soul which is a spirit, so ours is the only spirit which is a soul. God is a spirit, but has no body; the angels are spirits, yet have no body. Only in man is spirit united with a body.
Why is it reasonable to conclude that we are a union of body (which is visible) and spirit (which is not visible)? Our ideas are not material; they have no shape, no size, no color, no weight, no space. And yet it is not accurate to say an idea is nothing. Ideas produce thought, and thought is one of, if not the, most powerful thing in the world. Ideas have no resemblance whatsoever to our body. They must derive from something similar in nature and that something is what we call spirit. Ideas resemble their source, that is, our spirit.
In Christ, Ken.
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