What is the difference between the spirit and the soul?
The nature of man’s soul is, like that of the doctrine of the Trinity, a mystery that simply cannot be grasped by mortal mind. Only a fool would attempt a dogmatic answer to this question. The following statements are therefore but suggestions and not absolute answers. In the opinion of this writer it would seem the Bible indicates not so much that I have a soul, but rather I am a soul. I have a body and I have a spirit, but the soul is me. If this be true (and again, who can be dogmatic here?), then the following proposed illustration would not seem to be inappropriate: Let us consider Adam in the Garden of Eden. Prior to his fall, the first man could be likened to a driver guiding his beautiful new automobile down a smooth and scenic super highway. As he drives along, his car is filled with lovely Christian music and inspiring scriptural messages coming from His Father’s broadcasting house nearby and is being picked up by his stereo unit. In this illustration, the driver (Adam) would
