A Biblical Anthropology

Man is more than a mere physical body, we know this because man is said to be made in the image & likeness of God.Gen1:26,27. This truth opposes the false teaching of materialism which ignores the distinction between mind and matter. Evolution builds its foundation on the primus that matter itself has evolved and brought forth the mind. The distinction between mind and matter can be seen from Scripture.

God is Spirit
God is Spirit. Jon 4:24 Since God is incorporeal, invisible and without material substance then we must be endowed with faculties thru which we may worship God apart from are five senses, thus to be made in the image and likeness of God has as its primary purpose that we may love and worship God with our whole heart our whole soul and are whole mind. Yet we know that man has undergone spiritual death at the fall, that is, a spirit separated from God.Rom6:23; 1Cor15:22. To worship God then we must first be made again in His likeness i.e. a spirit that is alive to God Eph2:1 and this God does through His word. Col2:13; Act17:28, 29; 1Pet1:23; Jon20:31.

Born of God by the Word
Jon3:1-21 With the new birth man then becomes a functioning tri-unity made up of a living spirit, soul and body and is now able to have fellowship with the triune God. Our thoughts & conceptual ideas are non-physical in nature and originate in our intellect. They are not the product of neural activity in our brain cells. Wilder Penfield, one of the worlds leading neurosurgeons, declared, “The brain is a computer programmed by something independent of itself, the mind.” Dave Hunt reasons from scripture “This nonphysical entity which we call “mind” belongs to the soul and spirit living temporarily in the body of which the brain is but a part.”
Naturalistic Materialism can never explain life because it denies its Creator. The very One who’s words are spirit and life. Jn6:63