If human life is a trinity of spirit, soul and body, and the Bible teaches us that this is copied from God, who is a trinity of the Father, Son and Holy Spirit, then what can we deduce about the nature of God?
What is God?
Soul vs. Body
The connection between the soul and the blood, as the life of the individual, is strong, but there's more to it than that. The soul isn't simply the result of the spirit dissolving in the blood.
A Blood-Soul Connection?
When God breathed life into Adam he became a living soul, so there's a connection between the life and the blood, which is why the Children of Israel and the early Church had prohibitions on eating blood or meat with blood in it.
What does Soul Refer to?
The word soul occurs 458 times in the KJV. The majority of these references are clearly references to the person as an individual. It's as if the word soul could be used interchangeably with any personal pronoun.
June 6th
The soul is one of three aspects of life, patterned after the Holy Trinity: Father, Son and Holy Spirit. We’ve established a clear distinction between the soul and spirit.
June 4th
The Holy Trinity gives us the first cause of the universe and establishes a template for life which we see patterned in creation. It manifests as sentient beings which are comprised of spirit, soul and body.
Is the Soul in the Blood?
IF the body is the dust of the earth, AND the spirit is from God, THEN the soul is us: our consciousness and personality. But where is it? Is it a thing? What is it?
Soul and Spirit
What is the soul, and what is the spirit? The Jewish and Christian faiths incorporate both of these concepts. We need to carefully pick our way through these ideas and see what we can deduce.