And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life (life-giving spirit of God); and man became a living being – Gen 2:7 (NKJV).
Then the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, “Where are you?” So he said, “I heard Your voice in the garden, and I was afraid because I was naked (man became self-aware – the ‘soulish’ dimension of man became activated); and I hid myself.”Gen 3:9-10 (NKJV). (Words in parentheses are mine.)
Man is made up of three main components – Spirit, Soul and Body. Man is essentially spirit, with a soul that lives in a body. The body is the physical structure; the soul is the compartment of the mind, where concepts are developed and the material world processed and understood (intelligence); the spirit is the most abstract of these components. It is that part of man that relates with God, because He is Spirit (John 4:24).
