Nuggets from "An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith" by Dave Hunt

Nuggets from "An Urgent Call to a Serious Faith" by Dave Hunt

We refer to nonphysical beings as souls or spirits. We would not have thoughts and ideas if we were only physical entities – certainly not thoughts of good and evil, of morals and ethics. The real person inside the body, the person who thinks, decides, chooses, and has a sense of its own separate identity and moral responsibility, must be nonphysical. According to the Bible, man has both a soul and spirit. The former recognizes itself as different from all other beings, and the latter recognizes and can commune with God – or choose not to do so.

Physical bodies are, of course, subject to the physical laws governing the universe. Our bodies are subject to the pull of gravity, can be damaged in many ways by impact or disease, and eventually die and deteriorate in the grave, according to the second law of thermodynamics. But the soul and spirit, being nonphysical, are clearly not subject to physical laws. They cannot be part of the physical universe and therefore obviously inhabit their physical bodies only temporarily.