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Jan 21, 2022 · Understood this way, there is no contradiction or paradox; P2 and P3 are literally about different uses of “living soul.” This point can be drawn out more clearly as a criticism of or comment on P1, which claims, “a living soul is a combination of physical body and breath of life”.
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As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without...
- genesis - Can a soul exist without its spirit? - Biblical ...
Aug 22, 2020 · As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead. The connections of (mind, body, spirit, soul) are so complex and intertwined that only God can determine where one ends and the other begins. The complexity of these connections is such that degradation in them will affect all aspects of our lives.
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In order to make it easy to follow, I’d like to set up the argument with a syllogism. This allows us to see the flow of the argument from a bird’s-eye view without getting into the weeds of the premises. Once we have the argument down, we can then consider the justification for each of the premises. Here’s the syllogism. P1:If the soul has some act...
Our justification of premise 1 follows from a very important principle in philosophy: agere sequitur esse(“action follows being”). What this means is that a thing is going to act only insofar as its nature determines it to act. For example, a bird can fly only because its nature, bird nature, allows it to do so. A fish can breathe underwater and wi...
Now we come to premise 2: the soul has some activity that is, of itself, exercised apart from the body. There are several arguments that we could give to justify this premise, but for brevity’s sake I’m going to offer only one, and that is an argument from our knowledge of universals. There are two steps to the argument. The first step is to see ho...
This leads us to the second step in our argument: human beings have a capacity to know the “form” or “essence” of something in a universal way, stripped of all material conditions. In other words, the human intellect is able to attain its object in a way that transcends the conditions of matter. Consider, once again, a triangle. Whether we draw a r...
But this doesn’t mean the soul is indestructible. Sure, the destruction of the body doesn’t destroy the soul, but perhaps there is some other way that the soul could go out of existence. For example, whatever is made up of parts can break apart. Can the soul break apart? Or, perhaps the soul can go out of existence like a tree goes out of existence...
Feb 5, 2022 · Matt 10:28 - Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul. Instead, fear the One who can destroy both soul and body in hell. [See my answer to this question: A living soul cannot exist without a body (Gen 2:7; 1 Cor 15:44-45) but killing the body doesn't kill the soul (Matt 10:28). Is this a contradiction?
Apr 16, 2020 · Eg, read Genesis 2:7 account of Adam’s creation where God breathed the breath of life into the clay and Adam became a living soul (nephesh) in Hebrew. Animals are the same. “Nephesh” is used with them too. The soul, and in particular the idea of an immortal soul, comes from Greek philosophy and is not a biblical teaching.
Nov 22, 2020 · In the Bible, except in allegorical usage, the soul does not have an independent existence outside the body. The soul is not immortal or undying. According to God’s Word, souls do die! Man is mortal (Job 4:17). Only God is immortal (1 Timothy 6:15, 16). Only at the resurrection, God will give the saints immortality (1 Corinthians 15:51-53).
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Jan 25, 2023 · Through this teaching, Jesus explained that the soul can exist even after the death of the physical body. Therefore, the soul exists in our bodies and continues to exist even after the body perishes. This Biblical principle can be confirmed even from the Old Testament times, in the book of Job. Job 19:25-26 I know that my redeemer lives, and ...
