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The Holy Spirit: Question and Response

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What's the Difference Between Ruach and Neffesh?

In the New Testament and Old Testament, we need to remember that the biblical authors didn't sit down and write out an official glossary of technical anthropological vocabulary. So instead of thinking about each word representing some individual component of the human body or entity, we should think of like the Venn diagrams of overlapping circles. And so for and Ruach and Neffesh are great examples of that in Hebrew. They're two different words that kind of overlap.

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