Summary
If we went to the Apostle Paul for biblical counseling, he would focus on our whole person as embodied-souls.
A Facebook Q&A
On Facebook, through RPM Ministries, I created and moderate a group called Gospel-Centered Biblical Counseling and Equipping. It is a very active group with over 5,200 members.
Yesterday, I posted some quotes from Herman Bavinck’s Biblical and Religious Psychology. Those quotes were from my recent post on Unity of Body and Soul: Embodied-Souls in Herman Bavinck.
“Man is a unity, an organic whole, a unity in diversity. This truth is of great importance in today’s world. There are psychologists and pedagogues who ignore the soul or the body, the intellect, or the heart, or the will, the self, or the diversity of the soul’s life (of the faculties). But the Scriptures do justice to the whole person in every aspect. Soul and body are not dualistic and do not run parallel to each other like two clocks side by side, but they are intimately united in the personality and so form the essence of man that the fatal separation caused by death is overcome in the resurrection. Man does indeed have a spirit, but he is a soul, a
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