While soul is occasionally reference as the spirit of man, (subject to context) there is no immortality or transmigration of the soul……soul and spirit (biblically) are two very different things. How people use them in secular and religious dialogue may or may not reflect Gods intent.
There is the soul first without the body, which every soul who believes the Scripture knows right well:
I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.
And there is the soul after the body is in the grave, which every soul who believes the Scripture knows Jesus' soul was not left in hell:
He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
Once certain Scriptures are rejected, then all else is just falsely interpreting more and more Scripture according to that first rejection.
One of the many great things about the Word of God is….. God will define things that are necessary for us to know…. which takes all the guess work out of it….so we don’t have to make things up. And if things are not defined in the Word ….we just don’t know.
True.
He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: By which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison.
No more guess work. The soul of the man Jesus Christ was in hell, while His body was in the grave, and He went there by the Spirit.
Body as we all know is this earth suit that we inhabit. It’s formed from the dust of the ground
Gen 2:7 and when we die it eventually returns to dust.
True
Soul - is what mobilizes our earth suit. soul life is our breath life. It was created in great whales and in all mammals…first.
This is where the natural man errs, relying on natural sciences rather than Scripture alone, for the true spiritual things of God and His created souls.
The life of the living soul is the Spirit breathed by Christ. The life of the natural body is the air of nature.
The Spirit is
as the wind, but is not the wind itself, nor a force of nature.
The Spirit speaks expressly to the soul, while the wind says things about the natural course of the day.
Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils.
He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.
Natural theology of mortal souls only gives lip service to the soul, while making the natural air to be a soul breathing in the natural body: Natural Pagan spiritism.
The word
create is to bring something into existence that did not exist before, or to make something out of nothing…. Only God can create. And once He does …He does not need to re-create it again… He just speaks it into existence … That is evident in the first chapter of Genesis. From verses 1:3 to 1:20 God speaks everything into existence that He had already created in the first heavens and earth in
Gen 1:1
True. And the soul ceasing to exist, when the body is dead, is an oblivion that does not exist. God does not uncreate anything.
The word
“living” is the Hebrew word “
chay” meaning
life or living. And the word translated “
creature” is the Hebrew word “
nephesh” meaning
soul………….God tells us in
Leviticus what/where the soul is.
Lev 17:11 For the life (nephesh) of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls (
nephesh),
for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul (
nephesh).
Scripture is not about what men thought of their words, but hos God uses them to reveal the true things of God, angels, and souls of men.
Scripture of God is not the ideas of Hebrews about the things of God.
The Bible is not the theological book of Hebrews.
God is not the Hebrew God.
The word nephesh used in Hebrew culture is fine for Hebrew culture, but it's use in Scripture has nothing to do with the Hebrew ideas about nephesh. The same for what the Greeks thought of the psyche.
As per Biology: Oxygen is delivered throughout the body by means of the red blood cells (actually it’s the hemoglobin molecules from the red cells) that deliver the oxygen to the individual cells in the body tissue. The bloodstream also picks up CO2 from the body and returns it to the lunges to be exhaled…
When we die …the heart which pumps the blood, which delivers the oxygen to the brain …… stops….. soul life ceases in that individual person …. but is carried on through prodigy….. But if there is no offspring, the soul is gone when that person dies; there is nothing immortal about the soul….as
1Corinthians 15:50 makes clear.
Dittoes with the natural sciences used by natural man. Great biology makes for lousy doctrine of God.
Scripture of God is breathed by His Spirit into the souls of men. It is not words given by the natural air to natural brains.
The Greek philosopher Plato who lived from 427 - 347 B.C. believed that at death the body and soul were separated, but he said, “it was not the end of the soul”, he said that “the soul was indestructible”. He believed in the immortality of the soul and its eternal rewards and punishments after death. He was a student of Socrates 469 - 347 B.C. who believe the same… as did Pythagoras before him (570 – 490 B.C.)
True. As with many myths and legends of men, there can be some truth to them. Any truth in them is when Scripture confirms it, while also correcting the false versions of it: Whether it is the flood of Gilgamesh, the resurrected Sphinx, or the hades of spiritual theology in Greek paganism.
The Bible judges all books of men, by which some are proven true to some degree.
Men are not completely devoid of any truth, but without Scripture, they grope around in the dark, trying to discover it:
That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
Scripture here is plainly using an established spiritual theology of Greek pagans, to confirm some of it's truth pertaining to the things of God.
Like the flood of Gilgamesh, hades in the heart of the earth with immortal souls apart from mortal flesh, is not from Greek paganism, but is from Scripture showing where some of their theology is correct, though seen darkly.
No one needs to know the flood of Gilgamesh, in order to believe the flood of Noah. Nor does any man need to know the hades of Greek theology, in order to believe in the hell in the heart of the earth for souls of men.
There is even a king of that bottomless burning pit, called Apollyon, not the god Hades.
There is a long list of people who strung this unbiblical belief along until it became firmly entrenched in the religious doctrine…. Nowhere in the writings of man are their beliefs upheld by biblical scripture…
And there is always one or two Scriptures of God to rebuke all lies about the truth of His word:
He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ, that his soul was not left in hell, neither his flesh did see corruption.
This one Scripture collapses all the original languages and biological sciences arguments of natural man, that try to teach from them the doctrine of God.
It also confirms the hades with souls in the heart of the earth, while the bodies remain the grave.
Greek paganism is false, spiritual theology of the immortal soul is true.
