Man’s 3-Fold Nature

MAN’S THREE-FOLD NATURE

MAN is a three-fold being – body, soul, and spirit. Man’s education should cover his whole being. To train only the physical is to make a prizefighter. To train only the mental is to make an intellectual anarchist.

To train only the spiritual is to make a fanatic. But God planned to develop the whole man. Man’s spiritual nature is capable of culture that will enable him to know God and commune intelligently with Him. It was God’s dream that man should be His companion, so his spiritual faculties were originally attuned to the pitch of this dream.
Through the Fall, man was alienated from God.

His spiritual faculties were greatly impaired; yet, through Christ, this lost fellowship is restored. The spiritual faculty in man is capable of marvellous development, yet our educational institutions fail to recognize its possibilities.

Our Realm

The supernatural realm is really the realm of the believer. No one knows how much the mind and spirit can be developed. If the body is kept in fine fettle, there is almost no limitation to man’s mental and spiritual development. We have been slow to come to a realization that man is spirit and that his spirit nature is his basic nature.

We have sought to educate him along intellectual lines, ut¬terly ignoring the spiritual, so man is a self-seeking and self-centred being. Thus man has lost his sense of relationship and responsibility toward God and man. This makes him lawless – an anarchist.

We cannot ignore the spiritual side of man without magnifying the intellectual and physical; to do this without the re¬straint of the spirit is to unleash sex passions and give them dominance over the whole man. Man must have fellowship for his spiritual nature.
There must be a culture and development of the spiritual nature to the point where it can enjoy fellowship with the Father God.

The heart or spirit of man craves the touch of the supernatural. The love for the miraculous is in man. The spirit of man cannot be analyzed or classified by the mind; it is above the mind, as God is above the physical nature. Man’s intellect is ever conscious of supernatural forces about him that he cannot understand or interpret; perhaps, that is the reason why man longs to perform miracles.

The Wonderful Name of Jesus – E. W Kenyon