People are thinking, feeling, willing beings. That is to say, our basic nature consists of cognition (mind), affections (emotions) and volition (well). Together these constitute a living soul. Human beings also have a body, relating us to the external world, and we have a spirit, through which we can relate to the spiritual realm and to God. We are thus tripartite beings - spirit, soul and body (1 Thessalonians 5; 23).
God is concerned with the whole person. It would be difficult to over emphasize this point. Many of our problems come from the mistaken idea that in salvation God rescues one part of us - our spirit - from general ruin, and abandons the rest. Nothing is further from the truth. God has always dealt with the whole person. We are to love the Lord our God with all our heart and all our soul and all our mind and all our strength. Sin as radically affected not only our spirit, but our mind, our will, and our emotions. But the wonderful news is that redemption reaches and recovers all those areas that sin has ruined.
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