Todays discussion was driven by Hebrews 4:12.
It is clear that the soul and the spirit are two different things as confirmed, for example, in Hebrews 4:12 and 1 Thessalonians 5:23. It is also clear that God is a Spirit per John 4:24; therefore a spirit is an entity. A person is also an entity and that entity has a soul; the soul is that part of a person that can’t be killed (Matthew 10:28).
God gave man a soul so he could decide to worship him; God doesn’t want an army of robots programmed to worship him, he wants man to worship him of their own free will - their soul. When you accept Christ you are born again in the Spirit and that Spirit is an entity which supersedes your soul; your free will which you give up when you accept Christ and voluntarily accept the will of God.
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