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    The answer of hell and its origins

    As you can see doctrine is progressive in the bible. When one sticks with primivate parts, then they lack serious understanding of the bible.
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    SOUL Like the word ‘spirit’, the word ‘soul’ has a variety of meanings in English. There is some variety also in the usages of the original words from which ‘soul’ has been translated. In the Hebrew of the Old Testament the word is nephesh. In the Greek of the New Testament the word is psyche...
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    Progressive revelation The writing of the books of the Bible was spread over more than a thousand years, and throughout that time God was progressively revealing his purposes. He made known his purposes for the human race not in one moment at the beginning of history, but stage by stage as he...
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    . Thus is Christ the sum of all that is divinely authoritative for the life of humankind. But this progressive unveiling of God, which culminated in Christ, has been given perpetual form in the biblical writings. Scripture consequently participates in God’s authority, so that Christ’s relation...
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    https://redeeminggod.com/humans-three-parts-body-soul-spirit/ https://www.catholic.com/qa/what-exactly-is-a-soul soul (Heb. nephesh, Gr. psychē, Lat. anima) Primarily, “soul” is the life principle (Gen. 2:7). For Hebrews it indicated the unity of the person as a living body. The NT term also...
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    "In his correspondence with the Corinthians, Paul provides two different but complementary accounts of the resurrection, in one emphasizing the resurrection of the body from the earth and in the other the descent of resurrection from above. In 1 Corinthians 15, the resurrection is a recreating...
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    https://enduringword.com/is-there-a-difference-between-the-spirit-and-the-soul-live-qa-for-july-29-2021/ 2 Corinthians 5:1-8 For we know that if the earthly tent which is our house is torn down, we have a building from God, a house not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For indeed in this...
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    https://www.gotquestions.org/soul-care.html https://www.gotquestions.org/soul-spirit.html Soul In religion and philosophy, the soul is "the immaterial aspect or essence of a human being, that which confers individuality and humanity, often considered to be synonymous with the mind or the self...
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    The soul is the immaterial part of a person from which flow the actions, thoughts, desires, reasoning, etc. It is separate from the physical body. It is the part of the person that makes a person what he is, alive, aware, able, etc. It is the essence of personhood. Biblical theology teaches that...
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    Immortality of Martyrs. The point of view from which the Ḥasidim regarded earthly existence was that man was born for another and a better world than this. Hence Abraham is told by God: "Depart from this vain world; leave the body and go to thy Lord among the good" (Testament of Abraham, i.)...
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    KJV Dictionary Definition: soul soul SOUL, n. 1. The spiritual, rational and immortal substance in man, which distinguishes him from brutes; that part of man which enables him to think and reason, and which renders him a subject of moral government. The immortality of the soul is a fundamental...
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    Nepes [v,p,n] is often used to express physical needs such as hunger ( Deut 12:20 ; 1 Sam 2:16 ) and thirst ( Prov 25:25 ). It can be used of excessive desires (gluttony Prov 23:2 ) and of unfulfilled desires (barrenness 1 Sam 1:15 ). Volitional/spiritual yearning is also assigned to nepes...
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    Baker's Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Soul Soul [N] The Old Testament. The Hebrew word so rendered is nepes [v,p,n]. It appears 755 times in the Old Testament. The King James Version uses 42 different English terms to translate it. The two most common renderings are "soul" (428...
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    Why this doesn’t support trichotomy: Paul certainly distinguishes a person who is “natural” (psychikos, “soul-ish”) from one that is “spiritual” (pneumatikos, “spiritual”) in 1 Corinthians 2:14–3:4. But in this context “spiritual” seems to mean “influenced by the Holy Spirit,” since the entire...
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    “Soul” and “spirit” are both general terms to describe the immaterial side of people, and it’s difficult to see any real distinction between their use in Scripture. Learn more in Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology online course. Trichotomy: Body, soul, and spirit? Finally, let’s look at the...
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    4. The “soul” can sin or the “spirit” can sin. Verses such as 1 Peter 1:22 and Revelation 18:14 seem to imply that our souls can sin. Those who hold to trichotomy will usually agree that the “soul” can sin since they think that the soul includes the intellect, the emotions, and the will. The...
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    3. Man is said to be either “body and soul” or “body and spirit.” Jesus tells us not to fear those who “kill the body but cannot kill the soul,” but that we should rather “fear him who can destroy both soul and body in hell” (Matthew 10:28). Here the word “soul” clearly refers to the part of a...
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    2. When people die, Scripture says either that the “soul” departs or the “spirit” departs. When Rachel died, the Bible says, “Her soul was departing (for she died)” (Genesis 35:18). Elijah prays that the dead child’s “soul” would come into him again (1 Kings 17:21), and Isaiah predicts that the...
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    Clearly, the Bible makes a distinction between our physical bodies and a soul or spirit. Now let’s look at why dichotomists believe the Bible considers the soul and spirit to be the same thing. 5 reasons the soul and spirit are synonymous The reasons why many scholars believe humans are made up...
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    Since dichotomy and trichotomy are more common views in the evangelical church today, let’s look at each one in detail. Learn more in Wayne Grudem’s Systematic Theology online course. First: Can we be sure that humans have souls? Many non-Christian philosophers challenge the idea of a soul or...