as a philosophy student who had a critical and robust study of the difference between the SPIRIT and SOUL, i can tell you cartigorically that there are three main views as to understanding what these actually are. we have the African, western and Asian perspective. according to the African perspective, the spirit is an animating force which at death of the individual goes to the spirit world to join the ancestors while the soul reincarnates as a new person. for the Asians (budhism and the rest), the spirit is what give the body life i.e. it is the active element of an individual while the soul is in continous state of reincarnation until it gains enlightenment to join Lord Krisna in paradise. according to the western version, which is mainly as postulated by the ancient Greeks as well as the Holy Bible, the spirit give the body a life force while the soul is the part of the human entity that retains memory. hope i have help you a little

Logic Mind: Buzugee is wrong as usual.
There is a huge difference.
Spirit is everywhere. There are good and evil spirits, there is a holy spirit, an amadioha spirit, etc. No soul equvalents. Ever heard of the Holy Soul?.
Spirits can exist on their own and interact with the living. It is your virtual self. Souls live inside people and record everything for judgement.

Put is this way: the soul is the internal hard drive god put in you to record all your actions. When you die, this data is transfered to the mobile external drive called spirit. It is the spirit that wanders the earth as ghosts. It is the spirit that will stand judgement based on its data. And it is the spirit that will enjoy heaven or endure hell.
The bible made clear that souls die. Spirits never die.
Ezekiel 18:20, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die."

man is made of body, soul and spirit. 3 in 1.the body is the flesh that rot away,soul will face judgement the real man(what shall it profit a man if he gain d whole world and lose it soul)while spirit is the activating power of God in us-a conscience,can help know what is good and evil.when a man die body rot,spirit go back 2 God(the breath he gv us)while the soul face judgement

talked on this somewhere, just lazy learning how to use the search engines to get my specific posts. Anyway then, i hope this would be read instead of drowned by the volume of posts due to frontpage disease. i want to mention from a biblical perspective please, ithink you are all entitled to your views. The Bible states/teaches that man can be divided into three parts/portions of spirit, soul and body. The first thing to establish is that in spiritual technicalities, there is a difference between the soul and the spirit.
1Thess 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole[b] spirit and soul and body [/b]be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Things are muddled up in us humans and we may not immediately or ever realise this truth, or have this knowledge. It's a fact and truth, though not necessarily a saving truth or fact. It's not given much discuss or exposition or prominence in the Bible. Infact the three terms are freely used interchangeably even in the Bible to refer to the man/being. It's important but not necessary, just like we don't all need to know about the pancreas, or endocrine system to live long on earth. Knowledge of this doesn't exactly/basically make you more spiritual or holier or give you more life than others who may not know. Anyways, the scriptures alone can effectively and efficiently divide spirit and soul.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Man was created as a being, now one can be naturally a soulish being or a physical/fleshly being. Jesus Christ was a spiritual being, and all those that are reborn or born again are made spiritual beings and are expected to Walk in the Spirit not in the flesh.
1Corinth 15:45 And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.

John 3:6 That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.
John 3:7 Marvel not that I said unto thee, Ye must be born again.

We worship God and communicate with God basically in our spirits,before being born again our spirits are separated from God's Spirit, that's why we are considered dead. Man was created as a living soul. Living in the sense of been connected to God, the spirit been alive as it were.
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
The bolded are the three parts of man. dust is the body, breath of life is the spirit from God, and the soul is ofcourse the soul. They were so fused together that there were no strivings against the things of God or of the Spirit. The spirit reigned, but then man fell/died and now his soul or body now reigns. there is an ursurping. man is now primarily referred to as flesh, fleshly i.e relating to the soul and body who are now more pronounced and reigning as the spirit has lost its source of true life. Self now sits as king.

Gen 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years.
We are now commonly referred to as all flesh, every[b]body[/b], and as souls.

Gen 12:5 And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
The souls in the verse above is very much interchangeable with body or person or being.

Gen 46:27 And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
The soul is our natural life, the spirit is where our spiritual life is. The soul is the seat of self life, awareness, reasoning. the spirit is where the Lord dwells. It is innermost just like the temple of God, that had the outer courts, the holy place, and the holy of holies. You meet God in the holy of holies.

@Emmykk

man is made of body, soul and spirit. 3 in 1.the body is the flesh that rot away,soul will face judgement the real man(what shall it profit a man if he gain d whole world and lose it soul)while spirit is the activating power of God in us-a conscience,can help know what is good and evil.when a man die body rot,spirit go back 2 God(the breath he gv us)while the soul face judgement

Superficially your points appear ok, but can you back them up with convincing scriptures to enable me believe you.

emmykk: man is made of body, soul and spirit. 3 in 1.the body is the flesh that rot away,soul will face judgement the real man(what shall it profit a man if he gain d whole world and lose it soul)while spirit is the activating power of God in us-a conscience,can help know what is good and evil.when a man die body rot,spirit go back 2 God(the breath he gv us)while the soul face judgement

Superficially your points appear ok, but can you back them up with convincing scriptures to enable me believe you?

eghuan1: as a philosophy student who had a critical and robust study of the difference between the SPIRIT and SOUL, i can tell you cartigorically that there are three main views as to understanding what these actually are. we have the African, western and Asian perspective. according to the African perspective, the spirit is an animating force which at death of the individual goes to the spirit world to join the ancestors while the soul reincarnates as a new person. for the Asians (budhism and the rest), the spirit is what give the body life i.e. it is the active element of an individual while the soul is in continous state of reincarnation until it gains enlightenment to join Lord Krisna in paradise. according to the western version, which is mainly as postulated by the ancient Greeks as well as the Holy Bible, the spirit give the body a life force while the soul is the part of the human entity that retains memory. hope i have help you a little

Very interesting! Now, as a philosopher, which one of the 3 views best explain the d/f b/w soul & spirit, considering the fact that the truth in this case must be one.

WITH DIFFERENT VIEWS ON THIS THREAD, IF IT GETS MORE COMPLICATED SAY 'aye'
@denitro, @iwise i disagree wt ur views.
d first post that make sense is that of LOGIC MIND

Maybe my version will be easier to understand. A Man (Human) is A Soul.
He exists and is sensed on Earth among the living cos he have A Body. You can't exist as a Man on earth,among the living,without a Human Body.
The controlling factor,which directs his acts,thoughts etc is via an External Driving Force....I.e Spirit which could be Good or Bad.
The mans body could be habited or co-habited by Spiritual elements and entities. While his Soul could also be made subject to these entities.

Logic Mind: Buzugee is wrong as usual.
There is a huge difference.
Spirit is everywhere. There are good and evil spirits, there is a holy spirit, an amadioha spirit, etc. No soul equvalents. Ever heard of the Holy Soul?.
Spirits can exist on their own and interact with the living. It is your virtual self. Souls live inside people and record everything for judgement.

Put is this way: the soul is the internal hard drive god put in you to record all your actions. When you die, this data is transfered to the mobile external drive called spirit. It is the spirit that wanders the earth as ghosts. It is the spirit that will stand judgement based on its data. And it is the spirit that will enjoy heaven or endure hell.
The bible made clear that souls die. Spirits never die.
Ezekiel 18:20, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die."

I think there is a little mix up. You are right when you say soul and spirit are not the same, but your explanation of soul is not in line with the scripture you quote. If soul sins, according to Ezekiel 18:4 & 20, then what is soul in this context? Humans are souls. Soul is not a micro chip or storage device in man as you claim. Just like a manufacturer woul explain how he manufactured his product, the maker of man has explained how he made man at Gen 2:7. [/b]You are a product or result of something. As you read the Genesis, note that the cominOg together of dust from the ground and the breath of life from God became(=) a living soul. In short, dust from the ground and(+) the breath of life from God became(=) a living soul(you), the result.
[b]Ac 27:37
We were in all two hundred seventy-six persons on the ship.
New English Translation (NET)

And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.
King James Version (KJV)

The Bible shows that soul has blood, which means, man, with life and blood in him is a soul. See[b] Jer. 2:34[/b]

The Bible also refers to animals as souls. See the following scriptures: Nu 31:28; Re 16:3; Le 24:18

Man, having life, is said to have soul. In other words, soul is also translated to mean 'life'
Mr 8:36
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
King James Version (KJV)

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?
World English Bible (WEB)

WHAT IS THE SPIRIT?

In the Bible, the words translated "spirit" basically mean "breath." But this implies much more than the act of breathing. The Bible writer James, for example, states: "The body without spirit is dead." (James 2:26) Hence, spirit is that which animates the body.

This animating force cannot simply be the breath, or air, moving through the lungs. Why not? Because after breathing stops, life remains in the body cells for a brief period—"for several minutes," according to The World Book Encyclopedia. For this reason efforts at resuscitation can succeed, and body organs can be transplanted from one person to another. But once the spark of life is extinguished from the cells of the body, all efforts to restore life are futile. All the breath in the world cannot revive even one cell. The spirit, then, is the invisible life-force—the spark of life—that keeps the cells alive. This life-force is sustained by breathing.—Job 34:14, 15.

Is that spirit active only in humans? The Bible helps us to reach a sound conclusion in this regard. Wise King Solomon wrote: "Who really knows if the human spirit ascends upward, and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?" (Ecclesiastes 3:21) New English Translation (NET). So animals as well as men are spoken of as having a spirit.

Both humans and animals "have but one spirit." (Ecclesiastes 3:19) Hence, when a person dies, his spirit does not go on existing in another realm as a spirit creature.

Both(humans and animals) go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return. Ecclesiastes 3:22

WHAT, THEN, IS THE CONDITION OF THE DEAD? AND WHAT HAPPENS TO THE SPIRIT WHEN A PERSON DIES? - the Bible provides answers to all of this.

I agree wit stilme n disagree wit logic mind. Der ar three things dat made up human being. Body, soul and spirit. D body demand for food to look fresh, healthy n good. D soul work wit d spirit to achieve common goal. Now, God communicate to man through man spirit because der ar two spirit, Holy Spirit, n man spirit. D Holy Spirit communicate to man spirit through God. D Holy Spirit is always wit man but if man sins, He wil depart. Holy Spirit is d comforter dat replace Christ after His departure. He help to direct u in evrytin u do. Sin separate us frm Him. Dat is y Bible says dat d soul dat sin shall die. Also, soul is d one dat keep u living, ur soul is everly wit u to giv u breath. If it depart frm ur body, dat is death n d soul goes to d Creator(God). God has nothin to do wit flesh.

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Logic Mind: Buzugee is wrong as usual.
There is a huge difference.
Spirit is everywhere. There are good and evil spirits, there is a holy spirit, an amadioha spirit, etc. No soul equvalents. Ever heard of the Holy Soul?.
Spirits can exist on their own and interact with the living. It is your virtual self. Souls live inside people and record everything for judgement.

Put is this way: the soul is the internal hard drive god put in you to record all your actions. When you die, this data is transfered to the mobile external drive called spirit. It is the spirit that wanders the earth as ghosts. It is the spirit that will stand judgement based on its data. And it is the spirit that will enjoy heaven or endure hell.
The bible made clear that souls die. Spirits never die.
Ezekiel 18:20, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die."

Please remove Bible out of this. Spirit is something you can not see or torch but can communicate with. apparently your brian or what we call mind is the only thing that can talk to us but we can not see it.
soul I do not know what the heck it is..

eghuan1: as a philosophy student who had a critical and robust study of the difference between the SPIRIT and SOUL, i can tell you cartigorically that there are three main views as to understanding what these actually are. we have the African, western and Asian perspective. according to the African perspective, the spirit is an animating force which at death of the individual goes to the spirit world to join the ancestors while the soul reincarnates as a new person. for the Asians (budhism and the rest), the spirit is what give the body life i.e. it is the active element of an individual while the soul is in continous state of reincarnation until it gains enlightenment to join Lord Krisna in paradise. according to the western version, which is mainly as postulated by the ancient Greeks as well as the Holy Bible, the spirit give the body a life force while the soul is the part of the human entity that retains memory. hope i have help you a little

Interesting. Now do you think that any of these ideas actually works in the real world?

buzugee: IRON SHARPENS IRON my Brother.

@buzugee iron sharpens iron, Roger dat, thanks man.

Have you ever thought
of the difference
between Soul (Nafs)
and Spirit (Ruuh)?
Below is my point of
view, what is yours?
Soul is the self, and
when the soul desires
something, it asks the
Spirit for power.
The Spirit is a guide
with all rules that tells
the Soul what are the
rewards or
punishments of what
the Soul desires.
Only when the Soul
signs that it accepts
these rewards or
punishments, then the
Spirit is allowed by God
to channel the exact
required energy to the
Body to enact the Soul's
desire.
This Soul-to-Spirit-to-
Soul-to-Spirit-to-Body
communication is faster
than anything we may
think of so everything
we do (move, breath,
think, etc.) must go
through this process at
realtime even if we
don't realize it.
This is the meaning of
"La hawala wa la quata
illa bi Allah" = "No
ability-to-transform nor
force-to-act but that of
Allah's (swt)".
The Soul signs for all
deeds, good and evil,
and when we die, we
will see all of our
singnatures in a our
own judgement book.
And Allah knows all,
Adepegba Abdganiyy
God > infinity

Ekenthman: I agree wit stilme n disagree wit logic mind. Der ar three things dat made up human being. Body, soul and spirit. D body demand for food to look fresh, healthy n good. D soul work wit d spirit to achieve common goal. Now, God communicate to man through man spirit because der ar two spirit, Holy Spirit, n man spirit. D Holy Spirit communicate to man spirit through God. D Holy Spirit is always wit man but if man sins, He wil depart. Holy Spirit is d comforter dat replace Christ after His departure. He help to direct u in evrytin u do. Sin separate us frm Him. Dat is y Bible says dat d soul dat sin shall die. Also, soul is d one dat keep u living, ur soul is everly wit u to giv u breath. If it depart frm ur body, dat is death n d soul goes to d Creator(God). God has nothin to do wit flesh.

This sounds like human philosophy, can you add scriptural backing to what you are saying?

(4:1) O mankind! reverence
your Guardian-Lord, who
created you from a single nafs,
created, of like nature, His
mate, and from them twain
scattered (like seeds) countless
men and women;- reverence
God, through whom ye demand
your mutual (rights), and
(reverence) the wombs (That
bore you): for God ever
watches over you.
Nafs are sometimes translated
as Soul or Spirit.
The Spirit and body do not have
a frequent appraise but
symbolize opposite ends of a
field - one is like a breath from
God who is inimitable, who is
One. The other is from the
material world which is
characterized by diversity and
diffusion, where true unity is
impossible due to the very
nature of matter which
requires existent material
things to be separate and apart
from one another in both space
and time.
Any movement towards man’s
bodily or clay aspect represents
a descent toward dispersion
and multiplicity. If the Spirit
aspect dominates, then order
and correct proportion will be
given to all of man’s existence -
the body won’t be denied its
due, but all things will attain
the correct proportion.
(Qur’an 91: 7-10) By the Soul,
and the proportion and order
given to it; And its
enlightenment as to its wrong
and its right; Truly he succeeds
that purifies it, And he fails
that corrupts it!
The Qur’an also tells us that
the nafs is one of the places
where God discloses himself to
man. It says:
(41:53) Soon will We show
them our Signs on the horizons,
and within their own nafs, until
it becomes manifest to them
that this is the Truth.
The nafs is what makes us
human. It unites two disparate
worlds in one location and
through this makes it possible
for man to draw near to God. It
is with the unique nature of
this nafs that God created the
first human and then its mate
of a similar nature, and from
these two come all other
human beings, all carrying this
nafs with all its latent potential
within themselves. This is the
nature with which mankind has
been created - as a creature
capable of knowing God
through fulfilling the
capabilities, the potentials God
has placed within him.

Body ; thats the visible you

Soul ; the self, intellect. that part of you that i am communicating
with right now. when people say you are a nice person they mean
your soul. a bad person, that's your soul i.e. any description of
you that does not involve your body, is describing your soul.

Spirit ; the godliness in you. is a monitor, advisor to you. it's all up
to you to use it. when you are about to sin, there is a voice
within you that will always tell you that what you are about to do
is wrong. that is the godly spirit.

so when we pray, we are trying to elevate our soul to the level of the
godly spirit within us. it does not matter which religion you belong to.

THEY ARE SIMILAR BUT QUITE DIFFERENT
Soul is the incorporeal (i.e. Not composed of matter; having no material or physical existence ) and immortal essence of a person. Imagine if your body is splitted into head and trunk and you are still aware of yourself. That 'self' that is seperated from ur body is your soul. It is the life in your body (flesh). It is what lives on after carnal death.
Spirit is more complex to define as it has many differing meaning but it is also an incorporeal or immaterial being. The main difference is that souls are always associated with a body but spirits can be independent (e.g. Demons). Spirits can also possess a living body that already has a soul. In this case, the body struggles with the personalities. Meanwhile, both words can still be used interchangeably. A physical example that is similar to these two is the mind (brain) because it is what determines who we are. It contains our history and controls our actions(body). So animal can have soul too *sigh* I'm getting confused. No wonder Jesus sent evil spirits into the pigs.

Biblical differences can only be found in 1 Corinthians 15:45 " And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit."

There is no Biblical defnition for the two; soul and spirit.

The two can be confused together.

They are also used interchangeably in the Bible.

Biblically, there is a spiritual body, there is a natural body.

Summarily, from what i gathered from two topics on nairaland, i have discovered new things.

Man is complex and mysterious in terms of human configuration. God has given us brain to reason and to analyse things. There has been a lot of conjecture about the differences and similarities between soul and spirit.

Let us look at it this way, man is a spirit, having a soul, living in a container called the body.

The spirit is the strongest. It has a mysterious connection with God. Proverb 20:27 " The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly"
it is the real you. The real being. It is a path that God uses to speak to us, in other words we are connected to the realm of the unseen through the spirit. This spirit where God communicates to us now becomes our conscience. The Police of God. It is there. It is always talking whenever we have done something bad. We may not hear it, but it is a silent voice of God. That is why many armed robber do various things to suppress the voice of the conscience, they smoke, drink, use juju and so on. It is possible to have a dead conscience.


The soul is earthly in human configuration. It depends largely on what happens around us. We see things differently, we reason differently. The soul is the platform where we reason intellectually or otherwise. It is the seat of intellect. It is also complex; mind, emotion, will. When the mind is trained, you become competent in whatever you are doing. When you are hurt, you will be overcome with emotion and burst into tears. The will is the strongest out of the three, you take a decision, you make a choice, i will do it, i will not do it. The will power resides in the soul.

The body is the container. It is more earthly than soul. It is what we can see, physically. It is what we can touch,Feel, Grab. It is the part that relate with the physical world around us through the eyes, nose, ear, mouth. It is the natural body.

After death, the body is useless. You put on a spiritual body. Whatever you have done will go with you to the judgement of God. That is another topic.

Conclusively, how can we understand everything in this world, when we even find it difficult to understand the differences between soul and spirit? How?


This is my own submission.


God bless you.
God2man.

Logic Mind: Buzugee is wrong as usual.
There is a huge difference.
Spirit is everywhere. There are good and evil spirits, there is a holy spirit, an amadioha spirit, etc. No soul equvalents. Ever heard of the Holy Soul?.
Spirits can exist on their own and interact with the living. It is your virtual self. Souls live inside people and record everything for judgement.

Put is this way: the soul is the internal hard drive god put in you to record all your actions. When you die, this data is transfered to the mobile external drive called spirit. It is the spirit that wanders the earth as ghosts. It is the spirit that will stand judgement based on its data. And it is the spirit that will enjoy heaven or endure hell.
The bible made clear that souls die. Spirits never die.
Ezekiel 18:20, "The soul that sinneth, it shall die."

10/10. Ur damn ryt.

Jubal01:
10/10. Ur damn ryt.

Mr examiner, i trust u я a devoted xtian. U score ur guy using bible as the marking scheme..

d soul lies inbtw d body nd d spirit, d soul tapped info frm our 5 senses i.e eyes, tongue, ear, skin nd nose. D soul record these info in our mind which is inside d soul of a man. While d spirit guide us on some thing we knw not. So there is a big diff btw d soul nd d spirit.

To me soul is groovement to keep one alive while spirit is "liquour like red label vodka jack daniels macdowells haha

So join soul+spirit you gonna have a great sunday

Man is a spirit that lives in a physical body. With his spirit, he interacts with the spirit realm (unfortunately, this ability to know the spirit realm, is hindered because of the great fall of the first humans. So many humans do not if even and not conscious of their spirit. This why anyone who succeeds to commune with the spirit realm; wether of God or of the evil one, becomes like a god on the earth.)

man with his body interacts with this physical world.

The soul is the product of the union of the spirit and the body. When the spirit came in contact with the body, "man became a living soul".

Soul comprises of man's awareness, his sences, mind and emotions.

Unfortunately, as a result of the great fall, man is more aware of his body nad physical life than his spirit.

So many are spiritually "dead", they only live as mere bodily creatures. That is why so many live like ordinary animals.

Yet, real life is only in the spirit.
To get life in the spirit was what Jesus referred to as "being born again".

NEW INSIGHT INTO THE SPIRIT-SOUL RELATIONSHIP REVEALS THAT WHAT GOD BREATH INTO MAN WAS HIS ACTIVATING FORCE,NOT PERSONALITY,-COS SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT GOD'S SPIRIT IS A PERSON OR HAS IMAGE LIKE A PERSON- NO. IT WAS THIS ACTIVATING FORCE THAT QUICKEN MAN'S SAND IMAGE TO BCOM A LIVIN SOUL(MAN'S SPIRIT). IT WAS GOD'S BREATH DT REPLICATED THE INVISIBLE MAN DT LUKS XCTLY LIK HIM FRM D SAND HE'S MADE FROM,THIS WAS TO FACILITATE SPIRITUAL COMMUNICATIONS.WHAT GOD NEEDS TO DO IS TO WITHDRAW HIS BREATH U AR DEAD!

...SO BE USEFUL FOR HIS GLORY COS HE IS THE REASON FOR YOUR EXISTENSE OR ELSE YOU ARE USELESS TO HIM THEREFORE YOU ARE NOT SAVE FROM CALAMITIES. FACT!

Hello,

May the elements of destruction in Nigeria see reasons to repent...Amen.

Spirit is the finest, unattached core and origin of man. It's like the finest and simplest part of an element. It has the name spirit becuse it originates from the spiritual realm.
The spirit is like an unpolished gem.. it's a gem.
As the spirit makes it's downward movement from the spiritual realm to the earth, it passes through several other planes of existence. To successfully pass through each realm, it acquires a cloak that enables it adapt to each realm just like an astronaut wears his protective cloaks as he explores the space, as a welder in hot section is expected to be protected, as a deep sea diver wears protective and adaptive cloaks.
When the raw gem, spirit acquires cloaks of other planes as it passes through them, it become denser, the spirit clad in other lighter cloaks is called the soul. The spirit animates the soul.
As it approaches the earth , passing through the ethereal planes, it comes very close to the material called the astral, it's at this point that it attaches itself to the developing foetus at the middle of pregnancy (this is when a pregnant woman experiences her first "kick".
After taking on the erthly gross material cloak (the human physical body), it becomes the human being ...note that it still carries the soul and spirit within.
On departing from the erath (earthly death), it drops each cloak, one after the other as it acquired them.
It drops the gross material physical body first and wears the one next to it which is often seen by those who are so 'open' to see it as 'ghost'.. at this level, it's at the astral which is so close to the gross material and bears semblance.. the astral is still part of material state.
So it is as simple as : SPIRIT (RAW MATERIAL) + OTHER CLOAKS = SOUL ; SOUL + MATERIAL BODY= EARTH MAN (HUMAN BEING).

Thank you.... very willing to entertain questions on this.

Hello,

May the elements of destruction in Nigeria see reasons to repent...Amen.

Spirit is the finest, unattached core and origin of man. It's like the finest and simplest part of an element. It has the name spirit becuse it originates from the spiritual realm.
The spirit is like an unpolished gem.. it's a gem.
As the spirit makes it's downward movement from the spiritual realm to the earth, it passes through several other planes of existence. To successfully pass through each realm, it acquires a cloak that enables it adapt to each realm just like an astronaut wears his protective cloaks as he explores the space, as a welder in hot section is expected to be protected, as a deep sea diver wears protective and adaptive cloaks.
When the raw gem, spirit acquires cloaks of other planes as it passes through them, it become denser, the spirit clad in other lighter cloaks is called the soul. The spirit animates the soul.
As it approaches the earth , passing through the ethereal planes, it comes very close to the material called the astral, it's at this point that it attaches itself to the developing foetus at the middle of pregnancy (this is when a pregnant woman experiences her first "kick".
After taking on the erthly gross material cloak (the human physical body), it becomes the human being ...note that it still carries the soul and spirit within.
On departing from the erath (earthly death), it drops each cloak, one after the other as it acquired them.
It drops the gross material physical body first and wears the one next to it which is often seen by those who are so 'open' to see it as 'ghost'.. at this level, it's at the astral which is so close to the gross material and bears semblance.. the astral is still part of material state.
So it is as simple as : SPIRIT (RAW MATERIAL) + OTHER CLOAKS = SOUL ; SOUL + MATERIAL BODY= EARTH MAN (HUMAN BEING).

Thank you.... very willing to entertain questions on this.