ALL HUMAN ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS

JESUS CHRIST IS SET FORTH WITH ALL THE ESSENTIAL ELEMENTS (BASIC INNER STRUCTURE) OF A TRUE HUMAN BEING

 

 

What are These Elements?

"And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ."  1 Thess. 5:23

The physical, psychical, pneumatic nature of man. There will not only be the perfecting of each part, but the perfecting of all three in their proper relationships.
 Paul, in writing to the Thessalonians said, "May your spirit and soul and body be preserved entire, without blame." That is a recognition of the threefold fact of human personality finally reached. Man is essentially spirit and flesh, and he has a mind, or consciousness, or soul. The spirit is the essential, the body is the expressional, and the mind is the consciousness, which is either spiritual or fleshly according to whether spirit or flesh is in the ascendant in the life. The distinction between spirit and soul is sharply maintained throughout the Scriptures.... I think the teaching of revelation concerning the nature of man was most lucidly expressed by Justin Martyr, "As the body is the house of the soul, so is the soul the house of the spirit."
 The spirit is justified when you believe, the mind is sanctified through processes, but not until the perfected body is given to us can we come to the ultimate meaning of our salvation in Christ. In this tabernacle we groan, not until the body is made the perfect instrument of the spirit life.
Physical, Psychical, Pneumatical nature of man with the perfection of each part of the personality which would be the perfecting of the body, of the mind, and of the spirit. The spirit is justified when we believe; the mind is sanctified through processes; but not until the perfected body is given to us can we come to the ultimate meaning of our salvation in Christ and our very purpose for existence.

Our Lord has all These Three Elements

John 2:21 "But he spake of the temple of his body."
John 12:27 "Now is my soul troubled; and what shall I say? Father, save me from this hour: but for this cause came I unto this hour."
Luke 23:46 "And when Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost."

Certain Texts Seem to Contradict this Idea
John 1:14 - "the Word became flesh"

But "flesh" here means more than merely the body.
cf. John 1:13, 3:6 - total human nature

Heb. 2:14 - "flesh and blood" - total human nature
cf. Matt. 16:17 for proof of meaning