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Originally Posted by zeek
Seems to me we are in effect spiritual bodies now. The spirit is said to leave the body at death. So, until then spirit and body seem somehow joined.
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While I understand the confusion, you are caught in a bit of unintended equivocation.
"Spiritual body" has a meaning relating to the nature of the body. But having a spirit within us does not constitute our bodies as "spiritual.
I like the way someone much older and wiser than me put it. I will paraphrase. We are not three parts, or two parts. We are living humans. There may be truth to the idea that they can be split apart from each other in terms of identification (like a biology textbook), but within this life, they are inseparable and we are what we are in total. We are not "in" one part of our being at one time and then ""in" another part at another. We are always "in" our entire being.
But if you change the definition of "spirit" that you are talking about, this particular discussion becomes irrelevant and, depending on which one you change to, the one about "spiritual bodies" might become relevant. To simply morph the two together is to misunderstand the difference in the two words. It would be better if you try to imagine a different word for "spirit" when discussing the spiritual aspects of the human organism. A different word for the essence of God. A different word for the (generally) disembodied part of man that si often called a ghost (but that Paul joined back with the body in a way different from how it might have been understood to be connected prior to death).