This is a great read, https://www.truevinelife.com/growthinchrist/the-architecture-of-man-part-1-heart-mind-and-soul
Now may the God of peace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. (1 Thessalonians 5:23)
A key takeaway from this verse is that the spirit is distinct from the soul. Keep this classification in mind as we move forward.
The description of God’s creation of Adam provides the most insight into the architecture of man:
then the LORD God formed the man of dust from the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living creature. (Genesis 2:7)
God first formed the man from the “dust from the ground” which is a simple way of saying that He used the chemical elements that He had already created to make his physical body. He then breathed into him the “breath of life,” the neshamah chay in Hebrew, which means the spirit of the living. Breath and wind are used symbolically throughout the Bible to describe the human spirit because we cannot see it but we can recognize its effects on the natural world.
Finally, man became a “living creature”, a chay nephesh in Hebrew, or a living soul. Adam became alive—his soul was turned on—when God gave him his spirit. We can see here that it is the spirit, the “core” of our being, that powers our soul, our volition, intellect, and emotions, which is ultimately reflected in the visible actions of our body. James noted that “the body apart from the spirit is dead” (2:26a).
The details of this Creation account established the three classifications of the architecture of man: spirit, soul, and body. Paul’s writing to the Thessalonians was a reaffirmation of this tripartite structure. Digging deeper, this Genesis account also established two foundational concepts for understanding the architecture of man: segmentation and integration.
Segmentation is the recognition that there is (1) a non-material component of man that comes exclusively from God (spirit), (2) a non-material component that is unique to man (soul), and (3) a material component (body). Man does not have his own separate spirit, in the sense that his spirit is somehow his own, did not come from God, and he has control over it. Man does have his own unique soul, in the sense that he has the free will to steer his own course (in the body) by the desires of his heart and mind, yet it must be activated by his spirit which comes exclusively from God.
Integration is simply the reality that God designed all three components of man to function together. This teaching will cover this concept in great detail.
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