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Jesus is the Truth, the way and the life.
1. Jesus' soul is
the Truth (i.e. a set of ideas).
2. Jesus' Spirit is
the way (i.e. the Spirit of Truth). Jesus' Spirit is created and sustained by His love for the ideas which is His soul (i.e. Jesus Spirit is created and sustained by His love for the Truth). Love for the Truth is the fabric of Jesus' Spirit. Jesus' Spirit is a force. In humans forces are called spirit. Spirits are energized ideas. Love for ideas create and sustains spirits or forces.
3. Jesus in a physical body is the life. In this presentation, Jesus is within His Spirit within a physical body as man on earth. In this presentation Jesus is
the life. The example of the highest expression of human life on earth. This is how humans were designed to live. Jesus life on earth was an example of living under grace of God. This is to be 'in Christ'.
1. Jesus and all humans can have a soul without a Spirit and without a physical body. A spirit and/or a physical body cannot exist without a soul.
2. Jesus and all humans can have a soul and a Spirit without a physical body. A spirit can exist without a physical body but not without a soul. Each spirit must have souls within.
3. Jesus and all humans can have a soul within a spirit within a physical body. Each physical body must have a spirit and a soul within.
Souls, spirits and physical bodies are possessions. Jesus and humans are essentially witnesses who can and do posses souls, spirits and physical bodies.
The difference between Jesus and other human entities is that the soul of Jesus is the Truth. The souls of other human entities is less than the Truth.
The souls of humans are never the totality of ideas described as 'the Truth'. Only Jesus has such an omniscient soul. The soul of each human is a unique combination and permutations derived from the unlimited ideas which make up 'the Truth'. Therefore each person posses a unique soul.
All spirits are born from souls. Each spirit is created and sustained by one's love for the ideas which comprise one's soul. Therefore since the ideas which comprises each soul is unique, then each spirit is also equally unique, in accordance with one's own soul.
Physical bodies are created and sustained by one's spirit. Therefore the physical body of each human is unique, in accordance with one's spirit (which is in accordance with one's soul). The blue print for our physical bodies is called dna. Dna is known to be unique in each human. Our physical bodies is the material expression (in part) of our soul and spirits.
Dna is simply a physical expression of the part of our spirits which relates to our physical body. Our spirits is simply the dynamic expression of our souls. Our souls include the ideas of and for, both our spirit and our physical bodies, in pure potentiality.
Not only is each of our dna and physical bodies unique in each of us, so too are our individual spirits and souls. They are all unique in each of us. However our own individual physical bodies, spirits and souls are all very closely matched. At the level of their essential fabric, they are the same.