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. 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. However, he also knew that the soul is different from the spirit. Though the soul can communicate with the spirit world, it is carnal and can only function in this physical world. It is essential to understand this because that is why Moses mentioned the soul here instead of mentioning that man was created as a living spirit. Though many theologians teach that man was created with a living self-aware spirit, I can find no scriptural support for that belief. 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 free will to choose. Moses’s later description of what would happen if man partook of the Tree of Life, after disobeying God, gives evidence for what I have just said. In that conversation among the members of the Godhead, they indicate that, after sinning, man, partaking of the Tree of Life, would cause him to live forever in his sin. Why? Because he would then have been born as a living, self-aware spirit, similar to an angel. He would not have been born of the redemptive Spirit of Jesus Christ (Gen. 3:22). It is just as important to note what the scriptures do not say. 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 that it is man’s soul which is condemned to Hell (Mat. 10:28). Not a single scripture in the entire Bible mentions anything about our spirit being condemned to Hell. However, scriptures align to indicate that Adam's spirit could not sin, simply because it was not a fully formed personage with the ability to make choices. If it had been, there would have been no need for the Tree of Life, which could confer spiritual self-awareness but obviously could not provide redemption from sin. We must be born of Christ's Spirit to become eligible for redemption from all sin (1 John 1:7). We then become that fully formed, self-aware spiritual person that the Bible calls the new man. Our new man is created in righteousness and true holiness ( Eph. 4:24) (Read John Chapter 3). We are born of Christ's Spirit when we confess Jesus Christ as Lord of all (Rom. 10:9). At that instant, the Bible says that 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 that new born spirit. It can only affect our soul, which must continually be sanctified while we live here in this world. The completion of that sanctification shall take place at the judgment seat of Christ (1 Th. 5:8). However, a deposit of the new-born-again 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. It is a core part of a believer’s personality. I look at it as the beachhead of the soul for bringing into captivity every thought of the soul (mind, will, emotions) (2 Cor. 10:5).