 George Boardman describes the Divine Pneuma and the human pneuma as "constitutionally akin"  while Heard ascribes to them the same nature.For Michael Schmaus and most trichotomists, the human spirit is the focal point of the image of God.Proponents of the tripartite view claim that this verse spells out clearly the three components of the human, emphasized by the descriptors of "whole" and "completely".