What are the functions of the mind, will, and emotions in a person?
The mind does the thinking and formulates everything. The will is what carries it out. The emotions are the person's makeup of feelings, including anger, love, joy, and similar responses. Together these operate within the soul or personality, distinct from the body and the spirit, which was created for fellowship with the Creator.
Les explains that the mind does the thinking and formulates everything, the will carries it out, and the emotions make up such things as anger, love, joy, and what have you. These belong to man's soul or personality, which was created alongside body and spirit. Adam was first created with body, soul, and spirit, and by that spirit he had fellowship and communion with the Creator. After Adam sinned, that spirit died or became dormant, like a tree in winter or a run-down car battery, remaining dead until outside energy regenerates it. Also, the personality Adam was created with became a sin nature, the old Adam, with only one bent: rebellion against everything God instructed, taught, or admonished, saying, No.