[Ali Imran]

Absolutely! Our spirit is capable of communicating directly with God and worshiping Him, as attested by 1 Cor 6:17: "He who is joined to the Lord is one spirit with Him."

Neither soul nor body can unite with God; the spirit alone is capable of uniting with Him. And the spirit alone is capable of true worship. Jesus said in John 4:23-24, "But the hour is coming, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth; for the Father is seeking such to worship Him. God is Spirit, and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."

Now what is spirit? Gen 1:26 tells us that God chose to make man in His own "image" and "likeness." I believe image refers to outward appearance, and man's outward appearance mirrors the outward appearance of God. Likeness should be referring to the internal structure of the triune Godhead: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. Thus, man's spirit, soul, and body correspond to the 3 components of the Trinity.

This internal structure of the human personality can be traced back to God's creation of man. God breathed in Adam to produce a spirit within him; therefore, the human spirit proceeds from God's breath (Gen1:7). In both Hebrew and Greek, the words "spirit" and "breath" are synonyms. The body was clay infused with divine life to become Adam.

Which one is true? God is one as taught by Jesus or God is a Trinity as taught by the Church? I guess you'll pick the latter but that begs the question. When Jesus was asked what is the most important commandment, he quoted the Shema, that God is one. A couple of hundred years after Jesus, God became a Trinity. How come? Who came up with the idea of the Trinity? It wasn't Paul. It wasn't the early church fathers because they all didn't mention the Trinity. The first writings of the early church fathers that mentioned the Trinity was almost 3 hundred years after Jesus.