Excerpt from Is There a Hell?
Turning to the account of man"s creation as given in Genesis, we learn that not only was he created in the Divine image and likeness, but God formed him out of the dust of the ground, and then breathed into his nostrils the breath of (lives*) life, and man became a living soul (Gen. ii.7).
Now it is evident upon the most cursory glance at this portion of the Word of God, that something more took place in man"s creation than in that of the brute. Here we find God breathed into man"s nostrils the breath of life, but nowhere in the Bible is it stated that He did so in the case of the beasts of the field.
Clearly, then, this act on the part of God points to the communication of something from Himself to man, and therefore something more akin to Himself, than is implied in the act of water or earth simply producing in obedience to His command. And though we may be unable to clearly define what that something is, it is certain that man possesses in his being a link with God Himself, which the beast has not.
Body, Soul, and Spirit.
Man was thus made up of two independent elements, the corporeal and the spiritual; the soul being, as it were, the uniting medium between body and spirit. But while this is the case, it should be borne in mind that the spirit of man is distinct from the sheath containing it: and because this is often overlooked, much confusion of thought has arisen regarding the destiny of the wicked. If this distinction between soul and spirit be observed, it would appear that the uniting point of the elements of our being in this life is the soul, while the ruling power in our resurrection state will be the spirit. This will be seen by a reference to Scripture.
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