From: "seon ferguson" 

My soul is perfectly happy not belonging to a cult thankyou.



"James"  wrote in message
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> >IKnowHim{at}leavingsoon.com (IKnowHimDoYou- A.)
>>Re: Your Soul
>
>>Your Soul
>>
>>Our souls consist of our intellect, will and emotions.  All these exist in
>>the non-material world for they cannot be weighed, observed or separated
>>from our identity. This is a huge problem for the evolutionary religionist
>>for they have no answer for the soul's origin. Our soul is who we are and
>>no two are the same.  Many question when we become a living person.  The
>>answer could be when we are  concieved and the two fertilization
>>components, egg and seed, are united.  This is when we become the unique
>>person we remain for ever.
>>
>>The soul never dies according to the Bible.
>
> Hello,
>
> Yes, that is a popular belief; an 'immortal soul'. The belief was
> popular among the ancient Greek philosophers and can be traced back to
> then. But it is NOT a Bible teaching. Is the soul really immortal? See
> for your self at Eze 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." (KJV)
>
> A 'dead' soul is not an 'immortal soul'.
>
>>The physical body dies and
>>returns to dust but the soul lives on (Matt 10:28).
>
> Concerning Mt 10:28, if you carefully read those verses, you will see
> that a "soul" can be 'destroyed'. (NIV)
>
> Thus the Bible's "soul" is not immortal. So what is it then?
>
> The word "soul" is translated from the Hebrew word
"nephesh" and the
> Greek word "psykhe". The first use of the word
"soul" in relation to a
> human is at Ge 2:7 (its first use is with fish and animals),
>
> "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed
> into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
> [nephesh]"  (KJV) (my brackets)
>
> Notice the man wasn't 'given' a soul, but when he started to breath he
> BECAME a soul. Thus a soul is a whole person, and when a person dies,
> so does the "soul".
>
> But doesn't Mt 10:28 show a distinction between a "body" and
a "soul"?
> It reads,
>
> "Do not be afraid of those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul.
> Rather, be afraid of the One who can destroy both soul and body in
> hell. " (NIV)
>
> Since Jesus used the word "both" here, the words here cannot mean one
> and the same. The answer is that in some instances, the Bible word for
> "soul" can also mean 'life'. And that is the case here. Notice this
> brief comment from the French Professor  Oscar Cullmann in his book
> "Immortality of the Soul or Resurrection of the Dead?" He wrote
> concerning Mt 10:28,
>
> "psy·khe' [soul] here does not mean the Greek concept of soul but
> should rather be translated 'life'. . . . W. G. Kümmel . . . also
> writes with good reason: Matt. 10:28 'does not seek to highlight the
> immortality of the soul, but underlines the fact that God alone can
> destroy not only earthly life but also heavenly life."
>
> Thus the word "soul" used in this verse means the FUTURE LIFE of the
> person, not some 'immortal soul' which as shown by the Scriptures
> above, is definitely NOT immortal.
>
> I hope the above Scritures have increased you Bible accuracy.
>
> Sincerely,  James
>
> **If you wish to have a discussion with me, please use email since I
> do not follow ng threads
>
>
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>
>>According to God's
>>Word the soul can still think, decide, and feel emotions.  The best
>>example of this is the story of the rich man and Lazerus found in Luke
>>16:20-31. The rich man could still know torment and had lost all hope, yet
>>he was physically dead.
>>
>>You who think that the death of the physical body is the end are wrong.
>>Your soul will live on to enter either heaven or hell-for eternity.
>

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