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Traditional Theological Language Terms on Humans
In the case of terms
in Greek or Hebrew, theologically define the cluster of terms—Greek, Hebrew,
English—as though one term. One can use Romans, in these cases, as a
definitional control context.
affections cognition death desire emotion faculties of the soul free will guilt imago dei kardia (Grk) “heart,” leb (Heb) usually kardia in LXX motive nature nous (Grk) “mind” pneuma (Grk) “spirit,” ruach (Heb) primarily pneuma in LXX sarx (Grk) “flesh,” basar (Heb) generally sarx in LXX Paul’s “ethical use” of sarx soma (Grk) “body” psuche (Grk) “soul,” nephesh (Heb) generally psuche in LXX will (volition) views of the soul dichotomist trichotomist origin of the soul pre-existence creation traducian | |