text: who is  the god and why are we mortal and him immortal? also why we call god as him but not her?   introduction to god: there is only one god as the holy bible says. hear, o israel: the lord our god, the lord is one! (deuteronomy 6:4) we also know that the bible gives attributes of deity to god the father, jesus christ the son of god, and the holy spirit of god. we also know that there are not three god’s, they are one.  trying to explain god with human understanding is very limited, because we are limited. we can only know about god by what he has revealed to us in his written word, the holy bible. the bible gives us enough information to know that we can trust god with our lives and believe that his word is truth. but we cannot understand all that there is to know about god from our human perspective.  man is created in the image of god so we can understand some things about god by looking at ourselves. there are three parts to humans we have a spirit, and a soul, and they are contained in a physical body, but they are one person. now may the god of peace himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our lord jesus christ. (1stthessalonians 5:23) the following is a crude human analogy of god but it seems to fit with what we are taught in the bible about god. the soul would relate to god the father. the body would be jesus the christ, and the spirit of god would be the holy spirit.  the soul is a spiritual being, it is the mind, the heart, the control center of a person, the personality, it is the person. god the father is spirit. "god is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth." (john 4:24)   jesus the christ represents the body of god; he is god in physical form. for in him all the fullness of deity dwells in bodily form, (colossians 2:9). just as the body receives and obeys commands from the soul, or mind, jesus receives and obeyed commands from the father. jesus said that he only did what he saw the father do and he only said what he heard the father say. then jesus said to them, "when you lift up the son of man, then you will know that i am he, and that i do nothing of myself; but as my father taught me, i speak these things. (john 8:28) jesus was a sinless example of how we are supposed to be, in total obedience to the father. the body is subject to the mind or soul.  the holy spirit is the spirit of love. i believe that the holy spirit unites the father and son as one; one in love, one in will, one in personality. the spirit that god has given man is what the world calls our conscience. then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to god who gave it. (ecclesiastes 12:7) the spirit that god has given man is our source of life, (john 6:63). the moment that the spirit that god has given us departs from our body we are dead, (james 2:26).  our spirit gives us understanding of truth from god. but it is the spirit in a man, the breath of the almighty, that gives him understanding. (job 32:8) our spirit is always trying to unite us with god through jesus christ, who is the only way to god. "eye has not seen, nor ear heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things which god has prepared for those who love him." but god has revealed them to us through his spirit. for the spirit searches all things, yes, the deep things of god. for what man knows the things of a man except the spirit of the man which is in him? even so no one knows the things of god except the spirit of god. (1 corinthians 2:9-11) our spirit is the only part of our being that we can trust. our spirit reveals truth to us in the way that god sees truth. the spirit of man is the lamp of the lord, searching all the innermost parts of his being. (proverbs 20:27)   human souls have inherited corruption from adam’s sin, (romans 5:12). because a person is born a sinner he cannot trust his own soul, which is his heart. the natural tendency of our soul is to sin. sin is disobedience to god a