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 a free will. However, the soul is not spirit. Though it can communicate with the spirit world, it is carnal and possesses only the ability to function in this physical world. Why did Moses not also mention the seemingly more important fact that man in the beginning was created a living self-aware spirit? Many theologians teach this, but where are the scriptures supporting this teaching? I cannot find them. 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 with a free will to sin. Moses’s later statements concerning the conversation between the members of the Godhead match favorably with what I just said. In the beginning, 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. Furthermore, there is not a single scripture in the bible that says man’s spirit goes to Hell. Solomon said that it returns to God when the body dies (Ecc. 12:7). Jesus said It is man’s soul which is condemned to Hell (Mat. 10:28). Not a single scripture in the entire Bible says anything to indicate that man's spirit is condemned to Hell. As a matter of fact, scriptures support the fact that in the beginning Adam's spirit was not a fully formed personage with the ability to make choices. It is alive as the egg in a woman's womb is alive. However, we must be born of the spirit to become a fully formed self-aware spiritual person that the Bible calls the New Man. That new man is created in righteousness and true holiness ( Eph. 4:24) (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, we become a new creature (2 Cor. 5:17). God seals our spirit with His spirit until the day of redemption (Eph. 1:13), (1 Peter 1:23), (1 John 3:9). Sin cannot touch our new born spirit but a deposit of that spirit is deposited (2 Cor. 1:21,22) in that new heart which Ezekiel mentions (Eze. 36:26). The heart is the seat of our soul.