One Nature or TWO

ONE NATURE or TWO

 

I've heard certain controversy over can a person have two natures? I think the real question is whether a human "soul" and their "nature" are one and the same thing. I'm sure that our Bible has the answer to this as well as other difficult questions we might have, since it is the "Written Word of God". Let us start with Genesis, the first of the five books written by Moses, the man that God chose to begin to record His "Written Word". Genesis begins with "In the beginning God created the heavens (plural) and the earth (singular)", then in (Gen 1:26) we read "Let us make human beings in our image, to be like us". We understand that our Creator God is a "Triune" (three in one) being consisting of Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, who always existed in "perfect unity" in what we refer to as being "eternity past". We read in

(Gen 2:7) "Then the Lord God formed man from the dust of the ground. He breathed the breath of life into the man's nostrils, and man became a living person" NLT. Some translations use "soul" instead of person.

 

We read in the NT letter of Paul the apostle to the Gentiles (non Jews) in (1Thess 5:23) "Now may the God of peace make you holy in every way, and may your whole spirit and soul and body be kept blameless until our Lord Jesus Christ comes again". I understand this to be the proper way to refer to our human body as spirit soul and body. Now when Adam and Eve listened to the lies of our enemy Satan in the Garden of Eden about eating the "forbidden fruit" from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil in the Garden, they disobeyed the command of God given to Adam that the day they should eat of this "forbidden fruit" the would die. Their "souls" didn't die that day but their spirit relationship with the Father did die, or was cut off from the intimate relationship they once had with God in the cool of the evening in the Garden. This one act of disobeying the command of God brought "sin and death" into God's perfect creation that day. And this sin was spread to the whole of creation that day. See (Rom 5:12-21) for the results, Adam's body and soul lived for nearly 900 years, but his soul was "corrupted" that day and was part of what he passed on to all of his descendents, so we are "sinners" as a result, with "corrupted" souls, but not "sinful natures" as far as I can understand scripture!!

 

Sincerely submitted

Dave Jamer                                                                             

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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