The Doctrine of Three Essential Parts of Human Nature (Body, Soul and Spirit) is HERETICAL!

By Daniel kabiriko -

When observing most of  Protestants preach that there are three essential parts in human nature such as body, soul and spirit. They treat soul and spirit are different in humanity as they understood 1st Thessalonians Chapter 5 verse 23. 

The others treat those three as Trinitarian implication as the same as the implication of three essential parts of human nature. The three persons of the Trinity treated as comparison to three essential parts.

As far as Catholic teachings was concern, this is how we must understand the essential parts of our human nature. According to Catechism of the Catholic Church no. 362-366;

*The human person, created in the image of God, is a being at once CORPOREAL(material) and SPIRITUAL. The biblical account expresses this reality in symbolic language when it affirms that "then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being." Man, whole and entire, is therefore willed by God.

MAN, though made of BODY and SOUL, is a UNITY. Through his very bodily condition he sums up in himself the elements of the material world. Through him they are thus brought to their highest perfection and can raise their voice in praise freely given to the Creator. For this reason man may not despise his bodily life. Rather he is obliged to regard his body as good and to hold it in honor since God has created it and will raise it up on the last day. 

The Church teaches that every spiritual soul is created immediately by God - it is not "produced" by the parents - and also that it is immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death, and it will be reunited with the body at the final Resurrection.*

In relation to 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 20, Catechism taught that;

*Sometimes the soul is distinguished from the spirit: St. Paul for instance prays that God may sanctify his people "wholly", with "spirit and soul and body" kept sound and blameless at the Lord's coming. The Church teaches that this distinction does not introduce a duality into the soul. "Spirit" signifies that from creation man is ordered to a supernatural end and that his soul can gratuitously be raised beyond all it deserves to communion with God.

The spiritual tradition of the Church also emphasizes the heart, in the biblical sense of the depths of one's being, where the person decides for or against God.*

The 4th Lateran Council (428 AD) and the Vatican Council (1783) teach the doctrine of "Man consist of two essential parts--a material body and a spiritual soul" as De fide.

De fide is the term used by Catholic Church to use as one of the highest degree of certainty appertains to the immediately revealed truths. The belief due to them is based on the authority of God Revealing (fides divina), and if the Church, through its teaching, vouches for the fact it a truth is contained in Revelation, one's certainty is then also based on the authority of the Infallible Teaching Authority of the Church (fides catholica). If Truths are defined by a solemn judgment of faith (definition) of the Pope or of a General Council, they are "de fide definita." For those who proclaim "body, soul and spirit" as three essential parts or TRICHOTOMISM IS HERETICAL.

The incompatible teaching of Trichotomism with Church dogma was rejected by the 8th General Council of Constantinople (869-870 AD) the teaching of soul is the other part of spirit in human nature. Catholic dogma laid down that man possesses only one single spiritual soul. The spiritual soul is the principle of the spiritual mental life, and  at the same time, the principle of the corporeal or material.**

Trichotomism is never be compatible to compare three persons of the Trinity to a created human nature as they insisted. God can not understand His personality by simply comparing to body, soul and spirit essential parts of human nature. It is wrong and also heretical hence the nature of God can not compare to His creation.

Ref.

*Catechism of the Catholic Church nos. 362-368
**Lutwig Ott, Fundamentals of the Catholic Dogma.
Don't define me by your logics, just feel me in your soul.

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