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John_C said:
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evangelist said:

So are you assuming the bible contradicts itself?

Of course not. The Bible is the holy, infallible, inerrant, authorative Word of God.

In these situations we have to marry the various verses to derive at the true teaching. Often, there are only one agreed upon meaning in Christian orthodoxy. In the case between the dichotomy and trichotomy of man, Christians have differ when marrying the various verses. Still, I think the strongest arguments can be made for the two-fold constitution of man. Man has a material part and an immaterial part. How would the differences between the soul and spirit be made?

The soul is imperfect and the born again spirit is of God and is all new and perfect and infallible.
Our soul are not born of God so it can sin also.

But, if I clearly taught elsewhere that repentance/belief alone was sufficient no one would think coming forward is necessary for salvation,or water baptism is necessary for salvation.