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8.06.2011

Reformed theologians against body, soul, and spirit

This is true for the person who wrote it, and this isn't a statement that says truth is relative, I simply mean that for this person what he has written here is true for him.

It's certainly not true by the tribunal of Scripture or by the experience of obviously many regenerated Christians.

One thing we can't do as Christians, though, is deny other Christians' experience. Doing that is similar to the non-believer telling a Christian that he isn't a Christian, or that he doesn't even understand Christianity (said in a way to deny the Christian's professed faith). It borders on a serious boundary crossing act to say such a thing, and maybe is a wicked transgressing act for which the person who does it will get slammed pretty good by the Almighty in time. I.e. it's a degree or form of denying the work of the Holy Spirit.

One point about dichotomy vs. trichotomy: we don't mold doctrine based on concerns it could be taken wrongly. This is merely justification for a Christian to deny doctrine that stings him.

Another point: when we physically die we leave our bodies as a complete microcosmos, i.e. as body, soul, and spirit. More or less consolidated, more or less developed. Theologians seem to want to leave out 'body' in what leaves the flesh body.

1Co 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.

So in death we are still a contained body, soul, and spirit. Our spirit will be connected with the Holy Spirit of the Kingdom of God or with the spirit of disobedience of the Kingdom of Satan.

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