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Surely the apostle was not praying here for the sanctification of the body and its life and the breath that produced it, for the physical life need not be sanctified and the breath that produced it was of God. Furthermore, if such a prayer were possible, it would have been made for the body, the soul and the spirit, not the spirit, the soul and the body. Nor does the spirit here refer to the new man, as some teach, for the new man does not, indeed cannot, sin (Eph. 4:24). Clearly the apostle is here praying for the sanctification of the entire individual and it should be noted that he uses two 'ands' to emphasize the fact that the spirit, the soul and the body are all distinct parts of the whole man: 'your whole spirit and soul and body.' Annihilationists generally teach that man's spirit is part of God's spirit, originally breathed into man, and interpret Ecc1. 12:7 to mean that at death each individual's portion of God's Spirit simply returns to God again. But there can be no question that there are spirits who exist as individual personalities (Psa. 104:4; Matt. 12:43-45; Heb. 1:14). Why, then, should it be so difficult to believe that a man's spirit exists as a separate personality? God said: 'Let us make man in our image, after our likeness' (Gen. 1:26) not 'Let us make man part of us.' Thus we read of 'the spirit of man which is in him' (I Cor. 2:11) not 'the Spirit of God which is in man,' for His Spirit is not in all men (Rom. 8:9).
As with regard to the soul, so with regard to the spirit, we read of 'the spirit [Gr., pneuma] of man which is in him' (I Cor. 2:11) and are told that the Lord 'formeth the spirit [Heb., ruach] of man within him' (Zech. 12:1) and that the Lord Himself 'yielded up the ghost [Lit., spirit]' (Matt. 27:50). |
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