Posted by sam on January 18, 1999 at 01:56:28:
many believers who love the Lord Jesus and seek to grow in Him don't have any idea of the nature of their being: that they were created tripartite, spirit and soul and body. there is a big misconception that the spirit and soul are synonomous but the bible reveals that man is tripartite, explicitly in 1 thessolonians 5:23 and in genesis 2: 7, the Lord formed the man from the dust(body), breathed the breath of life(spirit), and man became a living soul. the soul is what connects the spiritual realm with the physical, as the body gives us world consciousness, the soul self-consciousness, and the spirit God consciousness.
for more on this read jessie penn-lewis' "releasing your spirit" found in www.amazon.com