Reference: Psychology
Hastings
The Bible does not contain a science of psychology in the modern sense; but there is a definite and consistent view of man's nature from the religious standpoint. This being recognized, the old dispute, whether it teaches the bipartite or the tripartite nature of man, loses its meaning, for the distinction of soul and spirit is not a division of man into soul and spirit along with his body or flesh, but a difference of point of view
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And Jehovah God will form man of the dust from the earth, and will blow into his nostrils the breath of lives, and man shall be for a living soul.
And Jehovah will see that great the evil of man in the earth, and every formation of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the days.
Create for me a clean heart, O God, and renew a steadfast spirit in my midst,
Chanting to David in his being in the desert of Judah. O God thou art my God; I will seek thee: my soul thirsted for thee, my flesh longed for thee in a land of dryness, and thirsty without water.
My soul longed after, and also failed for the enclosures of Jehovah: my heart and my flesh will rejoice for the living God.
And put away anger from thy heart, and cause evil to pass away from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it.
And the dust shall turn back to the earth as it was, and the spirit shall turn back to God who gave it.
And I gave to you a new heart, and a new spirit will I give in the midst of you: and I turned away your heart of stone from your flesh, and I gave to you an heart of flesh.
In your bringing in the sons of the stranger, uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh, to be in my holy place to profane it, my house, in your bringing near my bread, the fat and the blood, and they will break my covenant by all your abominations.
Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Every son of the stranger, uncircumcised of heart and uncircumcised of flesh, shall not come in to my holy place, to every son of the stranger which is the midst of the sons of Israel.
For from the heart come forth evil reflections, slaughters, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, defamations:
And Paul, having looked intently to the council, said, Men, brethren, I have lived as a citizen in all good conscience to God till this day.
And in this I myself attend carefully, to have a conscience unhurt towards God and men always.
Which show the work of the law Written in their hearts, their consciousness testifying together, and between one another thoughts accusing or also excusing;)
And I see another law in my members, fighting against the law of my mind, and taking me captive to the law of sin being in my members. I an oppressed man: who shall save me from the body of this death? read more. I return thanks to God by Jesus Christ our Lord. Therefore truly with the mind I serve the law of God; and with the flesh the law of sin.
I Speak truth in Christ, I lie not, my consciousness bearing witness to me in the Holy Spirit,
For this also pay ye taxes: for they are workmen of God, persevering in this same.
For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prays, and my mind is unfruitful. What therefore is it? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray also with the mind: I will play on the harp in the spirit, and I will play also on the harp in the mind.
It is sown an animated body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is an animated body, and there is a spiritual body.
Returning thanks to the Father, having rendered us fitting for the portion of the lot of the holy in light:
For ye died, and your life has been hid with Christ in God.
In prayer persevere, watching in it in gratitude
And manifested his word in his own times, in the proclamation, which I was entrusted with according to the command of the Saviour our God;)
For this I left thee in Crete, that thou shouldest rectify things left behind, and set elders in the city, as I directed thee:
All things truly pure to the pure: and to the defiled and unbelieving nothing pure; but also their mind and consciousness are defiled.
And foolish questions, and genealogies, and strifes, and conflicts pertaining to the law, avoid; for they are unprofitable and vain.
Which a parable for the time placed in, according to which both gifts and sacrifices are brought near, not being able for consciousness to perfect him serving;
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the eternal Spirit offered himself blameless to God, purify your consciousness from dead works to serve the living God?
Let us approach with a true heart in complete certainty of faith, having our hearts besprinkled from an evil consciousness, and having our bodies washed with pure water.
Pray for us: for we have trusted that we have a good consciousness, in all things wishing to be well occupied.