Soul & Spirit - Same or Different?

[Sons to Glory!]

Originally Posted by Curious

Where I ‘trained’ in matters of faith and practice, the belief was very clearly that the body, soul, spirit makes up the man. There was only one difference in detail: the spirit part of us, in the LSM is broken down into ‘conscience, communication with God, and intuition’. The teaching I got fed was, instead of ‘intuition’, the third part of the spirit of a human is ‘creativity’. (intuition being part of communication, I would assume). The logic behind it was probably that God’s creative energy with which He made the universe comes from His Spirit and so our reflection of that is likewise from ours.

Interesting post. In commenting on the bolded part above, I never really got the additional subdivisions of exactly what makes up our conscience, intuition, heart, etc. from WN/WL teachings. I've read different things about these further supposed subdivisions of our being, but it all seems something of a stretch and nothing really clicks. Besides, it seems to make little difference . . . at least to me.

And regarding creativity, I heard someone say recently that man is the only earthly creature that has a intently creative quality, and this is because we are made in the image of the Creator. Different animals can be fairly imaginative when need be for acquiring food, survival or a mate, but man seems to be the only one who has a vast amount of this creativity installed into our programming. We don't even have to have a pressing reason to be creative - we just create interesting things for the fun of it!