What is the biblical definition of apostasy? That's just one of the questions we'll be

answering on today's edition of Core Christianity. Well, hi, I'm Bill Meyer, along with Pastor

Adriel Sanchez. We pray you had a great weekend. This is the radio program where we answer your questions about the Bible and the Christian life every day. You can call us right now for the next 25 minutes or so at this number, 833-3-the-core. We'd love to get your question. That's 1-833-843-243-2673. Now, you can also post your question on one of our social media sites. In fact,

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First up today, let's go to Scott, who's calling in from Michigan. Scott, what's

your question for, Adriel? Hi, Adrian, Bill. My question is, if our soul and body are separated due to sin,

was Adam's body and soul together as one prior to him sinning?

Scott, thank you for that question. No, I don't think that, so we're one person and, you know,

in terms of the elements that make us up as as people human beings

you do have the soul and the body and our souls are separated from our bodies at a point

when we die you know our bodies go down into the ground our souls the souls of believers at

least are made perfect in holiness they're in the presence of the Lord at what we call the intermediate state and so so yeah death is the souls of believers at least, are made perfect in holiness. They're in the presence of the Lord at what we call the intermediate state. And so, yeah, death is the result of sin. But I don't

think that prior to the entrance of sin in the world, that the, you know, Adam wasn't soul and body,

or that they were sort of melded together in some sense. And so there's my answer to your question.

Yeah, you know, sin doesn't cause us, at least right now.

I mean, when we sin, we sin in soul and in body now.

I mean, sin affects every part of us.

And so it's important to understand this is part of getting into the doctrine of total depravity, not that there were as sinful as we can be, but that sin is corrupted every part of our nature, human being. And so some helpful distinctions there, but but Adam was even prior to the fall, soul and body.

You know, I experienced my own total depravity last night.

My wife made brownies for some of our guests and I had three of them.

Yeah.

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