Body Soul and Spirit Awareness

<p>BODY SOUL AND SPIRIT AWARENESS </p> <p>God uses the number three to depict his wonderful creative design in many things in the Bible – The number three speaks of perfect order and design and perfect unity and function. We see this in the Three in One Trinity of Father Son and Holy Spirit, symbolised in the Bible in the order of our cosmos of Sun, Moon and stars. We see it in Noah’s Ark of salvation in the upper, middle, and lower decks. We see it in the eternal expression of his nature in Faith Hope and Love. And today we will be looking at his perfect design of humanity in Body, Soul, and Spirit. </p> <p>1Thessalonians 5:23 Now may the God of peace himself (peace - Eirene – oneness and harmonising) sanctify you (set you apart – re-purposed, re-designate) completely (to reach the end goal) and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord. He who calls (invites) you is faithful; he will surely do it.  That is a great prayer and a great promise about what God wants to do in us.</p> <p>HUMAN CREATION Genesis 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground (Body) and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (Spirit life); and man became a living soul. In the first instance of human creation the body came first from the dust of the ground then the spirit of life and then the soul or inner life which had to become formed throughout a person’s life. In the generations that follow Adam and Eve the body gets passed on in seed and egg form along with a latent soul. The soul is the thinking, feeling, determining inner life with potential formation. The spirit life is created in the image of God and bequeathed to each individual life (designated to be joined to God’s Spirit). And God said ‘Let us make man in our image, after our likeness’ (Genesis 1:26) </p> <p> THE BODY – HOW AWARE? People of all cultures have always understood that there was an outer life of bodily activities and an inner life of thinking and feelings and choosing, and that these were distinct