Questions & Answers
Questions 88 (COD Page 398)
What difference is there between body, soul, and spirit?
172 The body is the flesh that you look at; that must rot. It was born by sexual desire of father and mother. It must rot. It’s no good. Therefore, in the new birth, in the resurrection when-when you’re brought forth again in a new body, it’ll be God’s creative power that’ll speak like He did to Adam and you’ll come forth. Job said, “I’ll have a desire. He’ll speak and I’ll answer Him.” See? Now, the body is what you look at, the spirit is what controls you, your soul is the motive of that spirit, or the nature of that spirit. “The soul that sinneth, that soul shall die.” You’re born in the world with a sinful soul. That is, the nature of your spirit is sinful. You long for the things of the world. Then the Holy Ghost comes down and baptizes you and changes the nature of that spirit. Then the nature that’s left on you is of Heaven. Then you profess that you are a pilgrim and stranger. Then you are born from above. You’re from above, you’re a candidate of Heaven, you’re a new creature in Christ Jesus, with the same body, with the same spirit, only it’s changed. And you are, or, your nature of that spirit is changed from unrighteousness to righteousness. That’s soul, body, and spirit.