Tripartite

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 503.

The tripartite position is that man has a body, soul and spirit. 1 Thess 5:23

They would say that the body is the means by which man interacts with the physical realm.

The spirit is the means by which man interacts with the spiritual realm.

The soul is the seat of man's intellect, emotions and will and thus allows man to take input from the physical and spiritual realms and make decisions.

Some see the physical side as evil and the spiritual side as holy. If this is the case, then we should repress our flesh and cultivate the spiritual. It seems that scripture indicates that both the physical and the spiritual are affected by sin and need careful attention. (2 Cor 7:1)

Finally, the fact that Scripture approves of one “who rules his spirit” (Prov. 16:32) implies that our spirits are not simply the spiritually pure parts of our lives that are to be followed in all cases, but that they can have sinful desires or directions as well.2

The strength of the Tripartite view is that fact that we recognize that man has a responsibility to make right decisions (Soul part) and to carefully evaluate what he encounters both physically and spiritually.

The weakness of this view is that there is little biblical basis for further subdividing the immaterial aspect of man. To split hairs at this level could be introducing more than God intended and even hurt our hermeneutic decisions.

Tripartite Strength is the focus on the responsibility of Man to make right decisions with his soul.

Tripartite Weakness is the lack of Biblical clarity and support.

Scripture frequently interchanges Spirit and Soul. You will find that many of the characteristics that might line up for Spirit are equally mentioned in relationship to Soul.

I believe that the Bible gives a greater emphasis on the whole person.

Mark 12:29 Jesus answered, “The most important is, ‘Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one. 30 And you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.

Seems clear in this passage that the author is using heart, soul, mind and strength to say that “ALL” of the person should be involved in this. It is not to indicate that mans is actually “Quadpartite”!

Heart, Soul and Mind are commonly used as synonyms. This is a common form of rhetoric: tautology, hendiadys and several other forms are used to repeat an idea simply for emphasis or to maintain interest. Hebrew poetry uses parallelism to specifically do this and is at the heart of many passages that refer to “Soul” and “Spirit” (Is. 26:9).

It is possible that the immaterial part of man may be subdivided into Soul and Spirit but there does not seem to be a need to do so nor does there seem to be a clear purpose in scripture in doing so.

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