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Augustine of Hippo Man has a perfect unity of twosubstance: soul and body, and that body is essential part of the human person,. It is like marriage: caro tua, coniux tua your body is your wife.
The Soul;
and the Spirit
The body (Greek soma) is the corporeal or physical aspect of a human being.
THE SOUL
The semantic domain of Biblical soul is based on the Hebrew word nepes, which presumably means breath or breathing being. This word means an immortal soul or an incorporeal part of the human being that can survive death of the body as the spirit of dead. This word usually designates the person as a whole or its physical life. In the Septuagint nepes is mostly translated as psyche () and, exceptionally, in the Book of Joshua as empneon (), that is "breathing being".
The spirit (Hebrew ruach, Greek , pneuma, which can also mean "breath") is likewise an immaterial component. It also refers to the Spirit of God residing and dwells in every person. It is also He who silently speaks and guide us. It is He who gives wisdom and understanding. It is the Spirit that descend on every Apostles in Pentecost in a form of a tongue of fire.
SPIRIT
THE ORIGIN OF HUMANITY The Bible teaches in the book of Genesis the humans were created by God. Some Christians believe that this must have involved a miraculous creative act, while others are comfortable with the idea that God worked through the evolutionary process. The book of Genesis also teaches that human beings, male and female, were created in the image of God. The exact meaning of this has been debated throughout church history. "Created in the image of God" means that there is an equivalency of concepts in human anthropology to that of our Creator, see above under Word. Origin/transmission of the soul There are two opposing views about how the soul originates in each human being. Creationism teaches that God creates a "fresh" soul within each human embryo at or some time shortly after conception. The Roman Catholic Church officially teaches the soul is created at the very moment of conception.[35] Note: This is not to be confused with creationism as a view of the origins of life and the universe. Traducianism, by contrast, teaches that the soul is inherited from the individual's parents, along with his or her biological material.
SINFUL NATURE
Christian theology traditionally teaches the corruption of human nature. However, there have been a range of views held throughout church history.
Pelagius taught that human nature is not so corrupt that we cannot overcome sin. Arminians believe that our nature is corrupt, but that free will can still operate. Saint Augustine believed that all humans are born into the sin and guilt of Adam, and are powerless to do good without grace.
CATHOLIC VIEWS
Image of god
Since man is said to be the image of God by reason of his intellectual nature, he is the most perfectly like God according to that in which he can best imitate God in his intellectual nature. Now the intellectual nature imitates God chiefly in this, that God understands and loves Himself. Wherefore we see that the image of God is in man in three ways. This means according to Thomas, that man has a natural aptitude for recognizing, understanding and loving God, for which however, he requires His grace. -Thomas Aquinas
Augustine is the father of many contemporary theological views on the body. He dwelled at length on the condition of the human body before and after the fall. He was convinced that the heavenly state consisted in complete control of mind over body, especially in the area of sexuality. To illustrate this point, he notes, that some people can wiggle with their ears, nose or even hair, completely at their will. This condition of complete freedom and absence of lust existed for human sexuality too before the fall. The body must be controlled, and therefore Augustine like his teacher Ambrose considered virginity of the human body the superior way of Christ.
He considered matrimony a triple blessing in light of its offspring, conjugal faith and being a sacrament: "In conjugal faith it is provided that there should be no carnal intercourse outside the marriage bond with another man or woman; with regard to offspring, that children should be begotten of love, tenderly cared for and educated in a religious atmosphere; finally, in its sacramental aspect that the marriage bond should not be broken and that a husband or wife, if separated, should not be joined to another even for the sake of offspring. This we regard as the law of marriage by which the fruitfulness of nature is adorned and the evil of incontinence is restrained."[