Three-fold nature of Man

So "morrow" and "joints" are interchangable without distinction? So, "thoughts" and "intents" are interchanable without distinction? That is what you are forced to believe to suggest that "spirit" and "soul" are interchangable without distinction in Heb. 4:12. Your arguments are simply excuses not to beleive what the Word of God explicitly states.

In addition, Heb. 4:12 is not the only passage that makes such a distinction (1 Thes. 5:23).

 

Is it "ugly" or is it "truth"? Is there no distinction between "thought" and "intents"? Is there no difference between bone "morrow" and bone "joints"? That is the position you have to take in order to justify the interpretation that "spirit" and "soul" in this same text are synonyms without any distinction. The "truth" is your interpretation is "ugly" as it distorts this text. Sorry, but "truth" is not always pleasant to hear.

 

Hebrews 4:12 explicitly states that the Word of God distinguishes between "spirit" and "soul" and what you have given are not just "excuses" but obvious irrational excuses to not believe what it literally, explicitly and actually says.

 

Your eisegetical interpretation is no better than his. The writer adds a third perspective or grouping that you coveniently omit. You omit it because it does not fit with only TWO aspects that correspond with your view of TWO basic aspects of material and immaterial. There is no room for a THIRD grouping in your TWO aspect analysis.

The writers point is that there is nothing within the complex nature and make up of man, that cannot be distinguished by God or hidden from God's sight:

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.

The "joints" and "morrow" represent the deepest diversity within the physical frame of the material man. The "spirit" and "soul" represent the deepest diversity within the immatieral man. The "thoughts" and "intents" of the heart represent the deepest diversity within the soul or conscious self of man.

 

Yeah, I know, but that text is too obvious for these brethren to grasp (grin).

 

You need to take a walk and lighten up. I placed a "(grin)" at the end of my comment.

hell is a place of CONSCIOUS torment and the immaterial aspect that conveys self-consciousness is the "soul." There are many instances when the whole man is represented by the body, or by the soul or by the spirit and that does not mean there is repudiation of the other aspects.

However, your interpretation is a clear repudiation of other immaterial aspects of the human nature that the Word of God declares to exist (Heb. 4:12; 1 Thes. 5:23). So, take your own medicene (grin).

 

I have previously covered this text in great detail. The term "soul" is also translated "life" because our inward conscious self (mind, emotions and will) is expressed by what we say and do or our daily life - the outward expression of our inward conscious activity. Mind = intellect, heart = emotions; Stength = will power that transferrs the inward expression of mind and heart into outward action.

The bottom line is that the Word of God says there is a distinction between spirit and soul and you flatly repudiate the Word of God.