We are a spirit, a soul, and a body. The Bible says that God formed man from the dust of the ground and breathed the breath of life into him. The Bible also says that God is a Spiritual being (John 4:24). Therefore, God’s breath is spiritual. That breath from God is not air like that which our natural bodies breathe. When God created man by breathing this spiritual breath into him, Moses said he became a living soul (Gen. 2:7). I believe it is just as important to note what Moses did not say here. He did not say that man became a living spirit. Moses knew that the soul of man was that part of a man which is a living, self-aware, unique person, endowed with free will by God. However, why did he not also mention the seemingly more important fact that man was created as a living spirit? Many theologians teach this, but where are the scriptures supporting this teaching? I believe Moses mentioned the creation of a living soul, but he notably did not mention the creation of a living spirit, and for good reason. Moses realized that man was not created as a living spirit in the sense that his spirit was a self-aware person who would need to be held accountable for his sins. This bold statement is supported by what Moses later said. Moses’s later statements concerning the conversation between the members of the Godhead strongly suggested that man’s spirit was given only the life-giving spiritual breath of God (Gen. 3:22). There is not a single scripture in the entire Bible that supports the fact that man was first created as a self-aware, self-willed spiritual person. Man’s spirit does not go to Hell but returns to God (Ecc. 12:7). It is man’s soul which is condemned to Hell (Mat. 10:28). As a matter of fact, scriptures support the fact that the spirit of man is more like the egg in a mother’s womb. It has life but is not a fully formed self-aware person until a person is born of the spirit (Read John Chapter 3). We are born of the Spirit when we confess Jesus Christ as Lord of all (Rom. 10:9). At that instant, the Holy Spirit seals our spirit until the day of redemption (Eph. 1:13), (1 Peter 1:23), (1 John 3:9).