Human philosophy has always regarded man as a dual or double natured being, but the teaching of the Bible - hence, the teaching of God, who knows the man He made ... is that he is a trinity or triune being whose composite parts are a body, a soul and a spirit. Indeed, man never could have known that he is anything but a dual being, unless he had received a revelation from one whose composite nature is of that same substance or element in him that he, unaided, could not have discovered, defined, or understood ... spirit.

Hence, under the inspiration of divine revelation, Paul, while writing to the church of Jesus Christ at Thessalonica, used the following specific terms: "The very God of peace sanctify you wholly, and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ." I Thess. 5:23.

Just here, we hasten to say, that we fully recognize and admit the fact, that each of these three terms, body, soul and spirit, which the apostle has used so specifically to designate the several parts of man's composite being, are sometimes separately used to designate man in his entirety or as a whole. And, since there are some who deny this, we herewith give examples wherin each of these three terms are so used:

"If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light. But if thine eye be evil thy whole body shall be full of darkness." Matt. 6:22.

"Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers." Rom. 13:1. ''And every heart shall melt, and all hands shall be feeble, and every spirit shall faint, and all knees shall be weak as water." Ezekiel 21:7.

Now, all can see at a glance, that in these texts each of these three terms - body, soul and spirit- is so used as to designate every person under consideration; and that in the last one, the words heart, hands, spirit and knees, are each used to indicate every person in the company of which the prophet was writing; and yet, no one is foolish enough to contend that all there is even in a man's body is either his hands, his knees or his heart. Neither will any Scriptually enlightened person contend that all there is in the composite nature of a man is either his body or his soul or his spirit.