A Lost Soul?
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Jesus said it is:
NKJV Mrk 8:36 For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul?
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Jesus also says
If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. Matthew 18:8
Surveys show that the majority of people believe there is a soul. Including atheists. I think we all have this sense of self and that this part of us cannot just be the product of meaningless matter or a figment of our imaginations.
Christ speaks this way a lot and so do the disciples. About storing up treasures in heaven rather than in this life where they can rot and be stolen or end up meaning nothing. Or the ultimate sacrifice of life for another. Which goes against every cell in our bodies that seek to survive and live.
So I guess if there is a soul and afterlife and Jesus says he is the way to saving your soul and that afterlife. I would think you can lose it by rejecting that way.
Whereever the lost soul goes I do not know. But it cannot be the same as a saved soul in Gods kindgom. Which is heaven where we can store our treasures now in this life. So I would imagine losing your soul starts in this life we live.
If your hand or your foot causes you to stumble, cut it off and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life maimed or crippled than to have two hands or two feet and be thrown into eternal fire. Matthew 18:8
Surveys show that the majority of people believe there is a soul. Including atheists. I think we all have this sense of self and that this part of us cannot just be the product of meaningless matter or a figment of our imaginations.
Christ speaks this way a lot and so do the disciples. About storing up treasures in heaven rather than in this life where they can rot and be stolen or end up meaning nothing. Or the ultimate sacrifice of life for another. Which goes against every cell in our bodies that seek to survive and live.
So I guess if there is a soul and afterlife and Jesus says he is the way to saving your soul and that afterlife. I would think you can lose it by rejecting that way.
Whereever the lost soul goes I do not know. But it cannot be the same as a saved soul in Gods kindgom. Which is heaven where we can store our treasures now in this life. So I would imagine losing your soul starts in this life we live.
‘Soul’ is a pretty tough thing to define, so many people have so many different opinions on what it is. But since the rule of the board is to test things with Scripture, it makes it a little easier for us.
We are urged to live good lives, like is the will and nature of the Father, so that we may be raised up and spend our life after death in His city, the new Jerusalem for His tribe.
If we don’t, we are purged by fire for an eternity, not fire that consumes, because the people there are said to gnash their teeth and moan. You can’t do that if you are consumed.
We are transformed one way or another, either through our love or through His fire. Our soul will have to lose it’s bad inclination before it is ready to enter into the new world. If you have a wooden table that falls apart, but cut a small board out of it that’s still reliable and make another table with new wood and the little piece that’s still fine, can you still say the old table lives?
We are urged to live good lives, like is the will and nature of the Father, so that we may be raised up and spend our life after death in His city, the new Jerusalem for His tribe.
If we don’t, we are purged by fire for an eternity, not fire that consumes, because the people there are said to gnash their teeth and moan. You can’t do that if you are consumed.
We are transformed one way or another, either through our love or through His fire. Our soul will have to lose it’s bad inclination before it is ready to enter into the new world. If you have a wooden table that falls apart, but cut a small board out of it that’s still reliable and make another table with new wood and the little piece that’s still fine, can you still say the old table lives?
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Thought provoking analogy. Is 'the box' above, your soul? Or is it the things 'in the box'? Or is it both? If you lost the teddy bear is your soul lost?In your understanding, what does it mean "to lose your soul"?
JAM 5:20 let him know that he who did turn back a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.
What's THE briefest definition of 'soul' from 'your' opinion? As we both know, many threads, have argued even that aspect endlessly here. But I hope you will share your definition and apply it to this verse.
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That verse I understand to be helping someone to return to the right path. To do so is an expression of love, and love likewise covers a multitude of sins.
The soul, I've heard compared to two wolves. A dark one associated with destruction, greed, envy. And a light wolf associated with fruits of the spirit. Which one prevales, the on you feed.
This modern parable has a basis in truth from Romans 6:16.
The bible compares the soul to a land in which a spring flows. From God comes all good things. Christ is the source of living water which gives life to our soul. Living in this world sucks the life from us, leaving the soil hard, barren, and dead. This leads to callousness of heart and despair. But through his word and the Spirit within us, we do not need to be ignorant of what is helpful and what is harmful. And we can choose what is good.
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Thank you for your response @lforrest , and I totally agree with your 'first sentence', above. But something has always made me curious with the James verse.
JAM 5:20 let him know that he who did turn back a sinner from the straying of his way shall save a soul from death, and shall cover a multitude of sins.
Why do you think it says "a multitude of sins"? Why not, 'the sin' you are helping them with? Or, even more importantly why doesn't it say 'covers ALL your sins'?
That same question now arises with your quote of 1Pet 4:8.
1PE 4:8 Above all hold unfailing your love for one another, since love covers a multitude of sins.
Why "a multitude" and not 'ALL'? Just a question I have asked myself for many years. And pending your response. I'd like to share the 'answer' I believe the "anointing" (1Joh 2:27) revealed to me since this thread started.
I've heard that analogy before, and it comes from an old Cherokee legend, which is not bible.
Not familiar with this "bible compares the soul to a land in which a spring flows." Can you share that reference?
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P.S. can you explain your username...lforrest? When I first read it, I thought you misspelled 'forest'
. Then, looking closer, I thought it stood for 'I for rest'. But when I tried to add a @ to the front of @lforrest....it would not 'tag' your name. Then I figured out that the 'l' in your username wasn't a capital 'i', it was a lower case 'L'. If that truly is the case then what does your username mean?
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Taken
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Your soul…belongs to God.
The Life (Gods Breath) IN your soul belongs to God.
Ezek 18:
[4] Behold, all souls are mine; as the soul of the father, so also the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Your soul IS “Only IN your Body”, When your body is mortally Alive /Living.
While your soul IS IN your mortal living body, YOU control your soul.
YOU, can exercise YOUR FREEWILL, TO subject your Soul to yield, follow, believe IN God…. IN Satan…IN nothing…
AND
After your mortal (bodily Death) your living soul shall depart out of your Dead Body…
AND
“IF” in Converted (a committed member of “Christs Church”… ) Christ the Lord shall redeem you (Rapture).
“IF” the body Dies believing IN God, Jesus’ existance….God shall save that soul and redeem you. (First Resurrection).
“IF” the body has “rejected” and died…
Without Conversion with Christ the Lord Jesus…
Without Belief IN God…
That soul shall …along with its body…shall have all life departed it…
Life of body (blood)
Life of soul ( Gods Breath)…
And such lifeless body and soul destroyed in the Lake of Fire and Remembered no more.
(Second Resurrection / Judgement / Sentencing).
Converted… IN Christ…
1 Thes. 4:
[15] For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep.
[16] For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:
[17] Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.
Saved by God…
1 Thes 4:
[14] For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him.
Against (Not With) the Lord God…
Luke 11:
[23] He that is not with me is against me: and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.
Matt 10:
[28] And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
Glory to God,
Taken
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amigo de christo
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he that is NOT with me IS ag ainst me and He that gathers not WITH ME scatters .
THAT DARN SURE DONT SOUND ALL INCLUSIVE TO ME padnahs .
IT sounds like , by g race i have been correct all along when i warned us all
that the ecumeincal all inclusive harlot of anti christ intefaith was OF THE DEVIL .
WEEP and howl ecumeincal lovers
weep and howl inclusive lovers
THE WHORE SOLD this world a lie meant to mer ge it and the religoins
and all under a peace plan that whore claimed was o GOD but was onl y of satan .
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amigo de christo
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and yet , oh yes and yet my near and dear friend
I have been outcast by even m any so called christains
for correcting , f or not allowing sins and unbelief to remain .
Many have knelt and many have grabbed a hold of both teets with both hands
and now suckle as fast as they can between breaths , the milk of a harlots ecuemincal inclusive love
she sold and sells as if it b e the LOVE of GOD
and all it was , was of satan to lead and mislead this christendom and the false religoins
the world and all that in it is
to a god and to a love to a peace they would all believe as THE DIRE GOOD of this wo rld
but only meant for its END and its DESTRUCTION on THE DAY OF THE REAL JESUS CHRIST
And on that day and in that hour
RAINBOW jesus , koran and budda statue kissing jesus
WILL NOT be able to sav e them FROM THE WRATH OF THE ONE TRUE JESUS . that is a fact ifforest .
SURE its a gr ave fact and it might scare the socks off of some . BUT TRUE IT IS .
Taken
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