For the scripture says. Paul paraphrases Genesis 2:7 Septuagint, which says that Adam was created a living being. [PSUCHE means both soul and life, according to the context, PSUCHEN ZOSAN here means living being.] This is life in the animal or natural sense. Is the life-giving Spirit. The natural body depended upon the presence of the soul for its life. Our spiritual bodies will not be such fragile things. Paul implies a FUSING of our triune nature in 1 Thessalonians 5:23. But there is no way we can know just what this will be.

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