Soul & Spirit - Same or Different?

[UntoHim]

Ok, while you're in the rebooting mode, are there any other questions you want to set aside? My brother, we already know what you believe, and what you think the Bible is showing, you made that perfectly clear in the opening post. So now the real question is: are you willing and able to defend your beliefs and contentions? A discussion is not much of a discussion if one of the parties is going to dig his heals in with the ole "The Bible says it, I believe it and that settles it!" That works on a bumper sticker on the back of a minivan, but in the real world of our little forum it is a super-frustrating non sequitur.

Nobody here is making the argument that the soul and the human spirit are the very same thing, at least not anyone that I've seen. The issue, as I see it, is what does the difference really mean to us mere mortals here on this third rock from the sun? I understand that you may still subscribe to the teaching that our human spirit is "the organ with which we contact God". This all sounds very exciting and enlightening, and even biblical, but I want to dig down a little deeper - let's get down to the brass tacks.

Maybe you can humor me for just a second: let me post a little excerpt from my post #21:

Originally Posted by UntoHim

All this happened without any of these crazy, inexperienced and naive, but sincere, baby-Christians having any knowledge or awareness that there was a difference between our spirit and our soul. I was pretty clueless that we even had "a human spirit". Can you imagine that ...I went around preaching the Gospel to family and friends, read the Bible, praised and worshiped the Lord "in Spirit and in truth" and sought to know the Lord with all my heart and strength...all this without knowing the difference between my soul and my human spirit!

So let's pretend we can jump into Doc Emmett Brown's time-machine and go back to 1975 and speak with this crazy, inexperienced and naive, but sincere baby-Christian who we will call "UntoHim". Let's talk some sense into this silly kid! Do you really think this bright eyed and bushy tailed punk is going to go with your
"I believe the Bible presents a substantial number of verses showing that both soul and spirit are present in man and are different." and run with that?
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