Obviously, the part of man that responds to God is willing to do much for God, but the part that does not respond to God is not willing to do much.

As for the capitalization: The original languages of the Bible (Hebrew, Greek and a tidbit of Aramaic and Chaldean) did not have our present-day system of capital vs. lower-case letters, although Greek did gain them since that time.

The oldest manuscripts have everything in all caps (which did not indicate shouting to them). In fact, Greek, at that time, was often written without spaces between the words.

Consequently, the word "spirit" is capitalized in modern English bibles depending on the translators' choices in the matter. Some translators render all instances with a lower-case "s," and let the reader figure out whether the spirit is human or divine. Other translators try to infer it from the context and apply a capital "S" in those cases where they believe the spirit in question is the Holy Spirit.

In this particular passage, it simply makes no discernable sense if the spirit here is divine.

Right. But what is meant when we talk about the human spirit? What do we mean? What did Christ mean?

In a scriptural context, how is the spirit distinct from the soul?

Wouldn't you and St. Thomas Aquinas like to know? In Suma Theologica, et.al., there is little practical difference between the human spirit and soul. The spirit is the soul as given, merged with our sapience-- our consciousness, apperception and experience, etc.

I wrote out my own personal theory of God and what it all means, but your system ate it. I took that as a sign! Maybe some other time.

I'm crushed. As soon as I have my life back, I'll try to get that fixed.

The spirit would be the part that participates in the afterlife.

The term that is translated 'soul' is the Greek word psyche, from which we get words like psychology, etc, although the Greeks had a different word for 'mind'.

Whether the soul and the spirit are the same thing or different things really doesn't matter in the long run. If they are the same, pleasing God requires me to give up drunkeness, surfing porn, etc. If they are different, pleasing God requires me to give up drunkeness, surfing porn, etc. So I don't worrty about it.

I always copy my text, knowing what can happen. Last night that didn't work either. Only two words copied, but the whole text was highlighted properly. Time to call it a night, then.

Don't forget to set your clock back tonight(10-28)....Although you would be early for Mass this time....

Translation: stop procrastinating and DO IT.