Spirit versus Soul

Dear Arno,I “found” Midnight Call when I was attending additional studies at the University of North Texas around 1985 and have been with you ever since.I do thank my God and Savior that I was already born again when I picked up my first issue of Midnight Call magazine, because after reading your belief statement, the Holy Spirit told me that Midnight Call’s ministry is for real!Your writings have been of great help to me in my walk with Messiah Christ. I just began Dear God, Thank You for Not Answering My Prayer and found that chapter one’s explanation of a person’s spirit, soul and body is truly the most thorough and best insight I have ever read. This writing has helped me understand what God did in my mind, heart and spirit that day I called out to Him in confusion and anguish. I wanted to KNOW Him. He answered that prayer! But, until today, I had not grasped the concept of soul vs. spirit. This insight will be of great value as God allows me to minister Christ to others.So, I am just saying, thank you so much for writing this book. And, you are so very correct: we who love Jesus must study His Word. It is alive! It speaks! It corrects! It comforts! The Bible is our only and true guide.Again, thank you for speaking the truth in love through authorship of this book about prayer.-C. Snokhous, TX


Arno's Answer:


While we are familiar with the body, the soul and the spirit cannot be identified scientifically or intellectually. Bible translations vary; sometimes no distinction is made between the soul and the spirit. However, the soul is our personality that caters to the flesh; the soul acknowledges what we see, hear and feel, things that belong to this world. A soulish person, for example, is quickly moved by sad or happy events. The spirit cares for the spiritual things, away from the earth, away from flesh and blood, and targets the heavenly. First Corinthians 15:45 reads, “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.” The first Adam died; the last Adam is eternal. It is the Word of God that divides the soul from the spirit (Hebrews 4:12).

Midnight Call - 02/2015

1047Dear God, Thank You for Not Answering My Prayer
by Arno Froese - Dieter Steiger
Item #1047 - 224 pgs.

Arno Froese is the executive director of Midnight Call Ministries and editor-in-chief of the acclaimed prophetic magazines Midnight Call and News From Israel. He has authored a number of well-received books, and has sponsored many prophecy conferences in the U.S., Canada, and Israel. His extensive travels have contributed to his keen insight into Bible prophecy, as he sees it from an international perspective.

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