Letter to Timothy: The Unity of Man (1)

Dear Timothy, Dear Timothy, In our last letters we had talked about the creation of man by God -- that God formed man out of the dust of the earth and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life. I tried to stress that God created man as onewhole and that our distinctions between body and soul, while important to understand the kind of creature man is, must not lead us to chop man into different pieces. Because of God's act of creation, man is, according to Genesis 2:7, one living soul. I...