Dr. Lewis Sperry Shafer, of Dallas
Theological Seminary, writes in Vol. 2 of Systematic Theology: concerning these
features of human life, it may be said that human speculation tends more to
confuse than to clarify. These terms are distinctive and using the word of God
with accuracy. Of these terms, the two--soul and spirit--are given special
prominence; not their use is an numerically superior, but because of the manner
in which they are employed.
The entire man is said to be body, soul, and
spirit, and without recognition of other features of the "inner man"..."
At this point it may be observed that there is the closed relationship between
the human spirit and the Holy Spirit--so close, indeed that is not always
certain to which the reference is made in the sacred text.
The Holy Spirit
works in and through the human spirit, but but this is not said with respect to
the human soul.
"The spirit itself bears
witness with our spirit" (Romans 8:16).
"Man is not spirit, but has
it: he is soul...., In the soul which sprang from the spirit, it exists
continually through it, lies the individuality--in the case of man, his
personality, his self, his ego." (Old Testament theology, PP 217) see Job
33:4 "God's spirit made me...."
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