When spirit, soul, and body are used, spirit and soul emphasize different aspects of the one unified nonphysical aspect of humanity.

Randy Alcorn quotes R.A. Torrey and Isaac Watts regarding the eternal state of our existence - with body and soul united. This video clip was excerpted from Randy's Eternity 101 DVD class.

I believe this is a subject of immense importance to our understanding of Scripture. Our Platonic/Gnostic assumptions have skewed our views, shifting them closer to Buddhism and Hinduism than to biblical Christianity, which is centered an actual physical resurrection of not only Christ and people but the earth itself, an earth God called “very good” and has never given up on.