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1 | What is the 'soul' really? | Matt 22:37 | kiwi_david | 64126 | ||
I have heard it said many times by Christians that the 'soul' is the 'mind, will, and emotions' ... if this is so, then why does the Bible say (Deut. 6:5, Matt. 22:37) 'Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind.' - clearly differentiating between the soul and the mind? | ||||||
2 | What is the 'soul' really? | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64127 | ||
The soul is your inner consciousness and all that it is made up of. This would include intellect, emotions, etc. Remove all of the physical and what do you have left? The mental. This is your soul. | ||||||
3 | Please answer the actual question friend | Matt 22:37 | kiwi_david | 64138 | ||
FTimA you did not address my question about the Biblical differentiation between the soul and the mind, you just made an assertion without any backup. Nor did you attempt to include the spirit in your summation of man's being. | ||||||
4 | Please answer the actual question friend | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64155 | ||
Dictionary.com defines the soul, in this context, as "The animating and vital principle in humans, credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity. The spiritual nature of humans, regarded as immortal, separable from the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state. The disembodied spirit of a dead human. I cannot find a scripture in the bible that specifically defines what a soul is. The spirit, the soul, the mind, the heart, these to me are all parts of a whole. If you want a definitive answer from the bible I would recommend an exhaustive concordance. |
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5 | The soul and the mind | Matt 22:37 | kiwi_david | 64167 | ||
Thank you for your efforts, but you seem to miss my point ... if God the Father (Deut. 6:5) and Jesus (Matt. 22:37) both speak of the mind as distinct and separate from the soul, it seems reasonable to conclude that the mind is in fact separate and distinct from the soul. A further clue to this is contained in Ps. 103:1 Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. David is here speaking to his own soul, as it were, with his mind and his will. Furthermore, it was a feature of Jewish poetry to repeat the same idea in a verse, as here, so that the second half of the verse says the same thing in a different way. The Amplified version renders it thus: BLESS (AFFECTIONATELY, gratefully praise) the Lord, O my soul; and all that is [deepest] within me, bless His holy name! The implication is that the soul can be equated with all that is deepest within; the innermost being; the very centre and core of a person. Again, I do not believe this is the mind; I see the mind and the soul as two important yet distinct facets of a human being. I believe that modern western thinking has strayed from the correct Biblical understanding of what exactly the soul is, and modern Bible teachers have resorted to a convenient yet unsubstantiated, piecemeal definition of the soul that suits our way of thinking, but departs from what an Old Testament Israelite or early Church believer would have understood the soul to be. | ||||||
6 | The soul and the mind | Matt 22:37 | FTimA | 64170 | ||
How then would you define what the soul of man is? | ||||||
7 | The soul and the mind | Matt 22:37 | Searcher56 | 64509 | ||
The following is a repost by Tim (9248) ... While no one is sure exactly what each word means, there is a reasonable clarity to the meaning of the verse. The first thing to note is that the Greek text says that we are love God out of the whole, and then lists four words from which this love is too spring. 1) Heart: This word in the New Testament ususally refers to two concepts. a) The seat of our passions or desires (cf. Acts 2:26; Jn. 16:6; 2 Cor. 7:3; Rom. 10:1; 1:24). b) The seat of reason or thought (cf. Mt. 7:21; Jn. 12:40; Acts 8:22; Mk. 11:23; Rev. 18:7; Rom. 1:21.) 2) Soul: This word seems to focus primarily on the life force of a person (Acts 20:10, 27:22, 27:10, and Mt. 6:25.) 3) Mind: seems to refer to understanding or thought (cf. Mk. 12:30; Heb. 8:10; 10:16; an arrogant disposition in Lk. 1:51.) 4) Strength: Seems to refer to personal ability. To sum up, one source that I counsulted said that these should not necessarily been taken as four seperate aspects of human nature, but rather as a de-scription of the totality of our human nature or personality. Thus, the command to the love the Lord would be qualified with the thought that this love should spring from and include every bit of who and what we are. This is wonderful advice for many Christians for whom their Christian walk includes only Sunday. The kind of love that we all should have is com-prehensive and total. Your Brother in Christ, Tim Moran There may be more ... use Quick Search, enter soul mind heart |
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