Your body and soul, like all of Creation, are marred by the Fall and its consequences. Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell” ( Matthew 10:28 NIV).

“Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Jesus spoke of the inestimable value of the human soul (and simultaneously taught that soul and body will be reunited for either eternal life with or, in that case, without God): The Psalmist spoke of our soul as the very inmost being of our person: “Praise the Lord, my soul all my inmost being, praise his holy name” ( Psalm 103:1 NIV). The separation, however, is not final, as the soul, in this differing from the angels, was made for the body. Both, body and soul together, constitute the human unity, though the soul may be severed from the body and lead a separate existence, as happens after death. “According to Saint Thomas Aquinas, who follows Aristotle in his definition of the human soul, the soul is an individual spiritual substance, the ‘form’ of the body. These two theological giants, separated by centuries, agreed the Bible teaches that the spirit is the eternal person, but will one day have an eternal body: Moon says “In Christian theology the soul carries the further connotation of being that part of the individual that partakes of divinity and survives the death of the body.”Īugustine and Thomas Aquinas rejected Platonic dualism, which saw the soul as good and the body as corrupt.

that which breathes, the breathing substance or being. Thus, in the biblical view, Adam does not have a soul Adam is a soul (i.e., a person, a living being). God “breathed the breath of life” into Adam, and he became a “living soul” ( Genesis 2:7 the New Revised Standard uses the word, “being”). It is important to admit that the word “soul” is not merely a disembodied entity.

Inmost soul