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How would you define "soul"?

People define "soul" and "spirit" in different ways and often use them interchangeably. I would define the soul as the emotions, thoughts, and consciousness of a person. The spirit is that spark of life, the intangible essence of a person that is immortal. They are part of the body and yet...

I can't say definitively if he is or isn't the restrainer, although Michael's tradition role has been protector of Israel. Granted, I'm sure he has other roles.

And yet, Jesus framed the soul the same way in the story of the rich man and Lazarus.

In 2 Thessalonians 2:1–12, Paul says the son of perdition, the Anti-Christ, cannot be revealed until the Restrainer is removed. The anti-Christ spirit has been at work for thousands of years, but the Restrainer is preventing it from culminating in the appearance of the Anti-Christ. There are...

This is not entirely accurate. The Jews/Israelites in the Old Testament believed when someone died, they all went to the grave (sheol). Sheol can mean grave, and it’s true, everyone’s physical body goes to the grave. However, Sheol can also mean the underworld, the abode of the dead. The picture...

Regarding the Witch of Endor, it’s true there are such things as familiar spirits. However, there are two things that could provide veracity for it actually being Samuel. One is even the woman was surprised to see Samuel. And two, the spirit accurately prophesied that Samuel and his sons would...

I've heard this argument before, but I would offer two examples that would refute it, one from the Old Testament and the other from the New Testament. I've previously mentioned the Witch of Endor and the ghost or spirit of Saul (1Sa 28). Whether it was actually the spirit of Saul is not relevant...

We were having this very discussion regarding soul sleep. For the sake of time, I'll cut and paste some of the verses I wrote: We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord. (2Co 5:8) I know a man in Christ who fourteen years...

Let me ask you this, do you believe in the sprit realm (angels, demons, etc.)?

And yet, when Jesus was raised from the dead, there were many dead saints that were raised with him (Mat 27:52). I would suggest that the resurrection of the dead is not a singular event but has multiple stages. Because their physical bodies are dead. But we are not our bodies; we merely live...

I would say those verses you quoted were written from a strictly human perspective on death, but they do not preclude an afterlife. I notice that you only quoted verses from the Old Testament. New Testament verses would seem to tell a different story. I posted these before, but I will do so...

Thank you for sharing your story, Angelina. My dad's mouth was open too. I never saw a vision or anything, but I have no doubt where he went. I sometimes wonder why God didn't take him sooner and spare in the last 1-1/2 years of his life where he struggled. Maybe all the prayers that we prayed...

Truth is hate to those who hate the truth.

Off topic, but health is also an interest of mine. There is something that people who are elderly and have physical/mental decline have in common: they don't have much muscle (or poor quality muscle). Muscle is highly undervalued in its role in health. Muscle is actually the organ of longevity...

I wrote about my dad here, and asked the same "why" questions. Near the end, he was as worse off as anyone I've ever seen. I don't think we will fully understand why some things happen the way they do on this side of eternity. But I keep coming back to what Paul said: "For this light momentary...

Not true. Missionary can be dangerous work. There's been plenty of missionaries that have been killed.

I don't know about the arguments for atheism, but the argument posed presumes that God may not have good reasons for making Himself obscure. It seems to me there is no better test of character than seeing how someone behaves when they don't think God or anyone else is looking. And maybe it's not...

I didn't say it was the only prerequisite. How about not rewarding state-sponsored terrorism?

I'm not sure what they think a Palestinian state would solve. There are reasons why it has never come to fruition even though it has been proposed many times. Nor why they think they are deserving of one. Getting along with your neighbors should be a major prerequisite of statehood.