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Post by Dubious Disciple (xdc) on Nov 19, 2011 10:53:00 GMT -5
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?
Help! Science has stolen my soul, and I can't get it back. For at least a couple hundred years before Christ, many Jews believed in an afterlife. They understood there would be a physical resurrection, and they would live again in the flesh, on the earth. It may have been around the time of Christ that the Greek concept of a soul made inroads into branches of Judaism, and lodged firmly in the branch we know today as Christianity. But if I have a soul, it can hardly be me. My feelings, my mental skills, my memories reside within a piece of meat housed in my skull. So is everything I've learned to say and do and enjoy, everything that makes me "me." So maybe I do have a soul, a living parasite housed somewhere within my body. Maybe this soul has some sort of otherworldly link to God, perhaps God pulls the strings on this parasite, and perhaps it can somehow stir the electrical impulses that fire between the neurons of my brain to make me think and act differently. Maybe it lives on after I die, and maybe it then goes to heaven or hell. The question I struggle with is, Why do I care about it? Or, more to the point, why would I care any differently about my parasite than yours? I hope they all go to heaven, and I hope they dance happily there while the personalities they leave behind fade into oblivion.
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Post by sharonw on Nov 19, 2011 11:37:01 GMT -5
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Help! Science has stolen my soul, and I can't get it back. For at least a couple hundred years before Christ, many Jews believed in an afterlife. They understood there would be a physical resurrection, and they would live again in the flesh, on the earth. It may have been around the time of Christ that the Greek concept of a soul made inroads into branches of Judaism, and lodged firmly in the branch we know today as Christianity. But if I have a soul, it can hardly be me. My feelings, my mental skills, my memories reside within a piece of meat housed in my skull. So is everything I've learned to say and do and enjoy, everything that makes me "me." So maybe I do have a soul, a living parasite housed somewhere within my body. Maybe this soul has some sort of otherworldly link to God, perhaps God pulls the strings on this parasite, and perhaps it can somehow stir the electrical impulses that fire between the neurons of my brain to make me think and act differently. Maybe it lives on after I die, and maybe it then goes to heaven or hell. The question I struggle with is, Why do I care about it? Or, more to the point, why would I care any differently about my parasite than yours? I hope they all go to heaven, and I hope they dance happily there while the personalities they leave behind fade into oblivion. Comments welcome. What is the soul other then the breath of life? Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
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Post by Gene on Nov 19, 2011 16:26:44 GMT -5
DC, you're a rare find. I love the idea of the soul as a parasite, and why, indeed, should I care about mine more than yours?
Do you suppose it's possible to kill off the parasite and be done with it? Alas, it seems the only way to do that is to gain the whole world -- and I'm not quite there yet.
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Post by rational on Nov 20, 2011 0:18:59 GMT -5
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. The Hebrew word that is translated as 'soul' in this case is translated differently in the KJV. soul 475, life 117, person 29, mind 15, heart 15, creature 9, body 8, himself 8, yourselves 6, dead 5, will 4, desire 4, man 3, themselves 3, any 3, appetite 2. Other translations of this verse: The human came to life. ...and the man started breathing. ...became a living thing. ...became a living creature. The man became a living being. ...the man began to live. ...man became a living person ...becometh a living creature. Makes the translation as soul, in the spiritual sense, doubtful.
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Post by rational on Nov 20, 2011 0:21:20 GMT -5
Help! Science has stolen my soul, and I can't get it back. I once thought someone has stolen my new car and then I learned I didn't have a new car.
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Post by Gene on Nov 20, 2011 10:33:58 GMT -5
Help! Science has stolen my soul, and I can't get it back. I once thought someone has stolen my new car and then I learned I didn't have a new car. tewshay! you and DC should team up and write a book. You could have alternating chapters. I'm quite a good editor -- you can reach my agent at gnelson2@hotmail.com.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 20, 2011 16:31:24 GMT -5
Help! Science has stolen my soul, and I can't get it back. I once thought someone has stolen my new car and then I learned I didn't have a new car. I hope you weren't devastated by the news.
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Post by Lee on Nov 21, 2011 2:06:55 GMT -5
. . . . In trying to come to terms with his vision of two angelic figures while recoving from a NDE, Richard Neuhaus in As I Lay Dying writes:
There are visions that we generate and visions that we receive, and no clear rule for telling the one from the other. It may be that in visions we touch upon realities of which what we call reality may be only the shadowland. Dostoyevsky wrote:
There are moments, and it is only a matter of five or six seconds, when you feel the presence of the eternal harmony. . . . A terrible thing is the frightful clearness with which it manifests itself and the rapture with which it fills you. If this state were to last more than five seconds, the soul could not endure it and would have to disappear. During these five seconds I live a whole human experience, and for that I would give my whole life and not think that I was paying too dearly.
The eternal harmony manifests itself, he writes. It fills you. It is a vision received. Of course Dostoyevsky was an epileptic, and today's neuroscience might suggest that his visions could be "cured" by minor surgery on the brain. Perhaps so, but here we are returned to the materialist claim that mind and consciousness and visions --- in a word, the soul --- are all delusional. There is no doubt that a laser beam or scalpel operating on parts of the brain can alter consciousness, as there is also no doubt that my thinking demonstrably alters the operation of the brain. Meditate on God and the infinite, evoke an erotic fantasy, worry about a forthcoming exam, or attend fully to Bach's Mass in B Minor, and the monitoring machines show the most complex excitements produced in the activity of the brain. Which "causes" which?
The manipulation of the brain affects mental activity and, just as surely, mental activity affects brain activity. Did my brain cause me to meditate on the infinite, or did my decision to meditate on the infinite enlist the brain in the service of my meditation? I say that I decide to listen to Mass in B Minor, but maybe what I call my deciding is no more than an event dictated by a neural synapse in my brain. But is it the case, then, that my brain dictates and decides things? For instance, does it decide that I am now deciding that that is not so? Go very far in that direction and we begin to speak of the brain as though it had a soul, maybe that it is a soul, maybe even that it is what we mean when we speak of the soul. But we know that is not what we mean by the soul. It is not what I mean by my soul. I just this minute once again decided that. And if someone claims that it would be more accurate to say that my brain produced the event that I call deciding, I have to make a decision about that, too, and so it continues in infinite regress until we are back in the perfect circle of solipsism that keeps college-dormitory bull sessions going late into the night.
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Post by CherieKropp on Nov 21, 2011 7:44:53 GMT -5
Can someone explain the difference in "soul" and "spirit"? (not "spirit" as in Holy Spirit/Ghost) I truly do not understand the difference, and I cannot separate them satisfactorily in my mind.
Heb 4:12: For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
1 Thessalonians 5:23: And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Corinthians 15:45: And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
Job 7:11: Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.
Matthew 12:18: quoting Is 26:9 and 42:1: Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles. It would seem from these verses that God also has a soul and spirit?
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Post by sharonw on Nov 21, 2011 8:31:49 GMT -5
Can someone explain the difference in "soul" and "spirit"? (not "spirit" as in Holy Spirit/Ghost) I truly do not understand the difference, and I cannot separate them satisfactorily in my mind. Heb 4:12: For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 1 Thessalonians 5:23: And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:45: And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.Job 7:11: Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.Matthew 12:18: quoting Is 26:9 and 42:1: Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles. It would seem from these verses that God also has a soul and spirit?There's a place in the bible and i cannot remember where it says something to the effect that when God breathed in their nostrils they became a living soul and it was not talking about humans, if I remember right. So I have always thought the breathe of life we have in us is our souls and our innermost person is our spirit....we do not affect others with our soul but we do with the spirit we have.....the born again spirit is slated for eternal life, the non-born again spirit is apparently not lated for eternal...though all souls will be resurrected, some will face the second death.... Otherwords our spirit is what causes our acceptance, resignation, desire for wisdom, riches...that which drives us I suppose is pretty good analysis. And it is true that our souls and our spirits return to Him who gave it to us.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 21, 2011 9:18:51 GMT -5
I think it would be easier to argue that the spirit is parasite-like more than the soul. To me, the soul is simply the essence of who you are. Whatever it is that makes DD into DD is DD's soul. Otherwise, DD is just a string of sinew, bone and other matter.
It's pretty difficult to separate soul and spirit. To me, one's spirit is "the condition of the soul", often manifested by various emotions.
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Post by Lee on Nov 21, 2011 10:20:10 GMT -5
Can someone explain the difference in "soul" and "spirit"? (not "spirit" as in Holy Spirit/Ghost) I truly do not understand the difference, and I cannot separate them satisfactorily in my mind. Heb 4:12: For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 1 Thessalonians 5:23: And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:45: And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.Job 7:11: Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.Matthew 12:18: quoting Is 26:9 and 42:1: Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles. It would seem from these verses that God also has a soul and spirit?Maybe Scott can resurrect it . . .. . I could not find my post where I "lifted" a theological note from the Reformation Study Bible entitled, Body and Soul, Male and Female, which sought to clarify the matter of body, spirit and soul.
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Post by rational on Nov 21, 2011 11:07:13 GMT -5
I once thought someone has stolen my new car and then I learned I didn't have a new car. I hope you weren't devastated by the news. Filing the report with the police was a killer task. They kept asking about color, model, VIN, etc. So I told them about the car I had in mind. It will be great if they find it though. I have always wanted a new car.
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Post by emy on Nov 21, 2011 14:58:28 GMT -5
Can someone explain the difference in "soul" and "spirit"? (not "spirit" as in Holy Spirit/Ghost) I truly do not understand the difference, and I cannot separate them satisfactorily in my mind. Heb 4:12: For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 1 Thessalonians 5:23: And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:45: And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.Job 7:11: Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.Matthew 12:18: quoting Is 26:9 and 42:1: Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles. It would seem from these verses that God also has a soul and spirit?There's a place in the bible and i cannot remember where it says something to the effect that when God breathed in their nostrils they became a living soul and it was not talking about humans, if I remember right. So I have always thought the breathe of life we have in us is our souls and our innermost person is our spirit....we do not affect others with our soul but we do with the spirit we have.....the born again spirit is slated for eternal life, the non-born again spirit is apparently not lated for eternal...though all souls will be resurrected, some will face the second death.... Otherwords our spirit is what causes our acceptance, resignation, desire for wisdom, riches...that which drives us I suppose is pretty good analysis. And it is true that our souls and our spirits return to Him who gave it to us. Thanks for this, Sharon. It's pretty much how I differentiate soul and spirit, also, but I think I reversed the naming of them. However, I agree with your designation.
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Post by Lee on Nov 21, 2011 21:23:58 GMT -5
I was somewhat struck by the way you referred to your soul as a parasite, it made me want to ask if you felt you lacked for self-respect.
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Post by Dubious Disciple (xdc) on Nov 21, 2011 22:31:53 GMT -5
I was somewhat struck by the way you referred to your soul as a parasite, it made me want to ask if you felt you lacked for self-respect. Yeah, I guess. I hate the thought of some foreign soul getting the credit (or taking the rap) for who I am. I agree with CD in how the word "soul" is often used. I was defining "soul" (for this discussion, at least) as that portion of me which survives death. I tend to think of "spirit" as a universal entity. I don't have a spirit, I share a spirit (or more than one). This isn't a Biblical deduction (any more than CD's definition of "soul" as our essense is Biblical) but just how it makes sense to me.
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Post by Lee on Nov 22, 2011 0:17:25 GMT -5
I was somewhat struck by the way you referred to your soul as a parasite, it made me want to ask if you felt you lacked for self-respect. Yeah, I guess. I hate the thought of some foreign soul getting the credit (or taking the rap) for who I am. I agree with CD in how the word "soul" is often used. I was defining "soul" (for this discussion, at least) as that portion of me which survives death. I tend to think of "spirit" as a universal entity. I don't have a spirit, I share a spirit (or more than one). This isn't a Biblical deduction (any more than CD's definition of "soul" as our essense is Biblical) but just how it makes sense to me. The Bible suggests there's more continuity between you and your soul than you proposed in your OP. Jesus' own understanding of the nature of the resurrection is revealed when he quotes from Exodus, "I am the God of Abraham, Issac, and Jacob. Am . . .as in present tense. We should keep in mind that our window onto our souls is about as complete as we are subjective.
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Post by Dubious Disciple (xdc) on Nov 22, 2011 8:37:50 GMT -5
Yes, we are agreed that the Bible suggests more continuity than modern science. Or, rather, I should say that neurology is finding all the personal attributes of our soul to be housed instead in our brain.
I'm curious about your statement concerning Jesus' understanding of the nature of resurrection, and how it's revealed in the I AM of Exodus. Could you elaborate?
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Post by sharonw on Nov 22, 2011 14:44:20 GMT -5
Yes, we are agreed that the Bible suggests more continuity than modern science. Or, rather, I should say that neurology is finding all the personal attributes of our soul to be housed instead in our brain. I'm curious about your statement concerning Jesus' understanding of the nature of resurrection, and how it's revealed in the I AM of Exodus. Could you elaborate? Isn't is true that the triggers of all of our bodies IS in the brain? As I've watch people dying and the breath refuses to leave and the person has to struggle more, simply because soul and spirit are cleaving unto the clay body...we know that the brain will eventually shut down and as it does whether from acidosis or alkinosis or too much this and too much of that that by the time the body quits breathing most everything else has ceased to function or at least function very little. It takes the breath of God to give any of us life when we're born, doesn't it? So naturally breath will be the last thing to go. And as it was said soul and spirit will return to which it came from.
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Post by Dubious Disciple (xdc) on Nov 22, 2011 19:49:36 GMT -5
sharon, I like the KJV's quaint phrase, "gave up the ghost."
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Post by StAnne on Nov 22, 2011 20:19:19 GMT -5
I particularly like #365 but I decided to post the section for context. I also like the 1 Thess 5:23 reference in # 367, And may the God of peace himself sanctify you in all things: that your whole spirit, and soul, and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. about which Haydock says: Ver. 23. Spirit, and soul. The former marks the understanding, the latter the will: hence these two terms give the two principal faculties of the soul. (Bible de Vence) II. "BODY AND SOUL BUT TRULY ONE"
362 The human person, created in the image of God, is a being at once corporeal and spiritual. The biblical account expresses this reality in symbolic language when it affirms that "then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being."229 Man, whole and entire, is therefore willed by God.
363 In Sacred Scripture the term "soul" often refers to human life or the entire human person.230 But "soul" also refers to the innermost aspect of man, that which is of greatest value in him,231 that by which he is most especially in God's image: "soul" signifies the spiritual principle in man.
364 The human body shares in the dignity of "the image of God": it is a human body precisely because it is animated by a spiritual soul, and it is the whole human person that is intended to become, in the body of Christ, a temple of the Spirit:232
Man, though made of body and soul, is a unity. Through his very bodily condition he sums up in himself the elements of the material world. Through him they are thus brought to their highest perfection and can raise their voice in praise freely given to the Creator. For this reason man may not despise his bodily life. Rather he is obliged to regard his body as good and to hold it in honor since God has created it and will raise it up on the last day. 233 365 The unity of soul and body is so profound that one has to consider the soul to be the "form" of the body:234 i.e., it is because of its spiritual soul that the body made of matter becomes a living, human body; spirit and matter, in man, are not two natures united, but rather their union forms a single nature.
366 The Church teaches that every spiritual soul is created immediately by God - it is not "produced" by the parents - and also that it is immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death, and it will be reunited with the body at the final Resurrection.235
367 Sometimes the soul is distinguished from the spirit: St. Paul for instance prays that God may sanctify his people "wholly", with "spirit and soul and body" kept sound and blameless at the Lord's coming.236 The Church teaches that this distinction does not introduce a duality into the soul.237 "Spirit" signifies that from creation man is ordered to a supernatural end and that his soul can gratuitously be raised beyond all it deserves to communion with God.238
368 The spiritual tradition of the Church also emphasizes the heart, in the biblical sense of the depths of one's being, where the person decides for or against God.239
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Post by shushy on Nov 22, 2011 21:45:37 GMT -5
For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Help! Science has stolen my soul, and I can't get it back. God likes a man who helps himself... For at least a couple hundred years before Christ, many Jews believed in an afterlife. They understood there would be a physical resurrection, and they would live again in the flesh, on the earth. It may have been around the time of Christ that the Greek concept of a soul made inroads into branches of Judaism, and lodged firmly in the branch we know today as Christianity. But if I have a soul, it can hardly be me. My feelings, my mental skills, my memories reside within a piece of meat housed in my skull. Oh..tut how could you refer to your lobes this way..So is everything I've learned to say and do and enjoy, everything that makes me "me." So maybe I do have a soul, a living parasite housed somewhere within my body. You seem to have a soul...........mind/will/emotions.Maybe this soul has some sort of otherworldly link to God, perhaps God pulls the strings on this parasite, and perhaps it can somehow stir the electrical impulses that fire between the neurons of my brain to make me think and act differently. Maybe it lives on after I die, and maybe it then goes to heaven or hell. The question I struggle with is, Why do I care about it? Or, more to the point, why would I care any differently about my parasite than yours? I hope they all go to heaven, and I hope they dance happily there while the personalities they leave behind fade into oblivion. LOL........your personality is a part of your soul, it is who you are. you cannot separate it. Comments welcome.
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Post by shushy on Nov 22, 2011 21:57:06 GMT -5
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The simplest way for me is soul = mind/will/emotions. Spirit is the essence of who we are. When bornagain it is born of the holy spirit, he comes and indwells us. The evidence would be our mind desiring to do something carnel and our spirit convicting us of wrong. Our spirit grows as we grow in God(christianeeze). Our mind and soul are linked/joined. Difficult to separate. Our mind and heart (flesh) are joined with our spirit. Which means our heart can be led by our soul or led by our spirit.
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Post by shushy on Nov 22, 2011 21:59:01 GMT -5
Can someone explain the difference in "soul" and "spirit"? (not "spirit" as in Holy Spirit/Ghost) I truly do not understand the difference, and I cannot separate them satisfactorily in my mind. Heb 4:12: For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. 1 Thessalonians 5:23: And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1 Corinthians 15:45: And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.Job 7:11: Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.Matthew 12:18: quoting Is 26:9 and 42:1: Behold my servant, whom I have chosen; my beloved, in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my spirit upon him, and he shall shew judgment to the Gentiles. It would seem from these verses that God also has a soul and spirit? Yes, Jesus Christ.
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Post by Happy Feet on Nov 22, 2011 22:06:04 GMT -5
I see it that we are body, soul and spirit.
As Shushy says, the soul is the mind, thoughts and emotions.
The spirit is that which goes back to God.
The soul and spirit are not the same although there are times they seem to be used interchangeably.
They used to think that evil came from the heart, when really it comes from our thoughts. The heart is a physical thing that pumps blood through out body.
It is our thoughts which come from our mind that evil comes from.
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Post by rational on Nov 23, 2011 11:29:36 GMT -5
Do you suppose it's possible to kill off the parasite and be done with it? Ahh, that's a slippery slope! What will happen when you die?
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Post by sharonw on Nov 23, 2011 11:36:13 GMT -5
sharon, I like the KJV's quaint phrase, "gave up the ghost." I think that is correct in that "giving up of the spirit" does come before giving up of the breath. Jesus' own death on the cross is perhaps a good example. I think it says that Jesus cried out that He was commending His spirit to the Father. Then He bowed His head and died. The statistics normally searched for in a death is "presence of breath and pulse"...... I do admit that there are extenuating circumstances where the pulse of the heart lingers sometime after a breath, but I think when people quit breathing that the heart shuts down just a second or two before. I know my husband's heart beat was so fast we could not count it, he took his last visible breath about 4:30 a.m. and his pulse finally slowed down enough to call him deceased about 9 a.m. That is only one of perhaps 2 instances for me to know about in about 30 yrs. of nursing. Though for Rational's sake I am not saying that is a set rule.
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Post by sharonw on Nov 23, 2011 11:43:57 GMT -5
I see it that we are body, soul and spirit. As Shushy says, the soul is the mind, thoughts and emotions. The spirit is that which goes back to God. The soul and spirit are not the same although there are times they seem to be used interchangeably. They used to think that evil came from the heart, when really it comes from our thoughts. The heart is a physical thing that pumps blood through out body. It is our thoughts which come from our mind that evil comes from. I had mentioned earlier how I'd come about naming the breath of life within us as our soul...was this, God breathed the breath of life into us on birth(though rational will come back that sometimes the newborns have to have some help with that.) But the point in naming our soul our breath is because the breath is usually the last to quit within a body's functioning. I feel that many who have died and their eyes open right before they breath their last breath that that is the time when they surrender their spirit into God's keeping for certainly their eyes are seeing something I have not seen as of yet. God explained about the wind that it cometh from one direction and goeth in another and man cannot name that direction....Is that not like our spirits, we do not know what direction they come from nor do we really know which direction they will go....unless it is that the dying have a lucid moment and commend their spirits into the Lord's keeping. We know where our souls come from because it states very clearly in the bible that God breathed into man's nostrils and he became a "living soul".Another reason I bequeth spirit to that which comes and goeth in direction unascertained is the fact that we can have our spirits "born again". Otherwords our spirit can change and be renewed. Breath or souls co not change for they are the essence of human life.
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