ARTICLE:

THE MYTH OF HUMAN EXISTENCE

         Man is a tripartite being comprising of  body, soul and spirit. We all shall live forever as eternity is not a function of place or location but of time. I mostly refer to myself as a spirit being that reasons through a mind (soul), and operates through a body. The mystery of the three compartments of man is one  that remains uncontested as we all can testify of subconscious operations such as dreams, near death experiences and so on. If we consisted only of a body, then our physical forms won't remain on our beds when we sleep, we'll all vacate to dreamland and come back to our beds to wake in the morning. The spirit and the body existed in  the beginning. When God created man from the dust of the earth (body), He breathe into him (spirit). The book of Genesis 1:26 says;

'' Then God said. let us make man in our own image according to our likeness; let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, over the birds of the air, and over the cattle and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth''.

          It was the breathe that made man became a functional living entity. That's why the spirit of a man remains the candle of God. From the beginning, God has always dealt directly with the spirit of man. In Gen.2:16-17, He told Adam and Eve that they will die if they ate of the forbidden fruit. God was directly talking about their spirit as they obviously didn't fall down dead physically. God has little or no business with our bodies. He connects directly with our spirits. Our soul, which is the mind is only a reflection of whatever goes into us.At  birth, our mind is a vacuum. The term ''tabular rasa'' is used to describe this state. Tabular rasa means a clean slate. It describes the empty and clean state of the mind (soul). Over time, as we grow, we feed our minds with different set of things through our gates i.e the ear-gates and the eye-gates. All these, over time accumulate and settle in our soul. The knowledge that we acquire whether academically or otherwise also occupies a major part of our soul content. The soul now in turn influences our feelings and emotions based on what has been fed into it it over time.

       From the above analysis, we can see that who we truly are is the spirit. We only require a body to operate here on earth. So why do we give less preference to our inner beings? We are more concerned about a perishable body than an incorruptible spirit.


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