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1 | Ref. on animals having no spirit? | James 2:26 | Tuggy | 93916 | ||
Contrary to the popular teaching, the soul does not live on after a person dies. According to the Bible, what happens at death is the reverse of what happened at creation. Genesis 2:7 tells us how we were created: God made man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man BECAME a living SOUL. What is the soul? According to the Bible, a soul is a living being. The Bible does NOT teach that God placed a soul in man, but that, in equation form: body plus breath equals living soul (or living being). Can the soul die? Indeed. See Ez 18:4. Who only has immortality? 1 Timothy 6:15, 16 tells us that God is the only One who is not subject to death. The Bible only uses immortal to describe who God is - never to describe who we are. Immortality is a gift that God will give us. According to Paul, in Romans 2:7, we are SEEKING FOR IMMORTALITY. Job tells us that we are MORTAL (Job 4:17). 1 Corinthians 15:51-54 tells us that God's people will receive immortality at the resurrection at Jesus' Second Coming. What happens at death? Ecclesiastes 12:7: "Then shall the dust retutn to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it." The Bible does not teach that the soul returns to God. The Bible mentions "soul" 1800 times and never once uses the expression "immortal soul". For Bible-believing Christians, the great hope is the resurrection at Jesus' second coming. Are humans conscious at death? How much do they know? nOT AT ALL! See Ecclesiastes 9:5, 6. Does the thought process continue after death? According to Psalm 146:4, no. What is the spirit that returns to God? See James 2:26; Job 27:3; Job 33:4. The Spirit and the breath are the same throughout scripture. When a person dies, it is God's life-giving power, His breath, that returns. The psalmist David states: "His breath (spirit) goeth forth (Ps 146:4). It is not some conscious entity - not some immortal soul. The Hebrew word for breath throughout scripture is RUACH, which means "AIR, WIND, OR SPIRIT." At death, the spirit or breath returns to God. Can the dead worship God? See Psalm 115:17 and Psalm 6:5. Since the "dead know not anything" (Eccles 9:5) and "in the grave there is no remembrance of you" (Ps 6:5), it is only logical that "the dead praise not the Lord" (Ps 115:17). The Bible compares death to a sleep more than 50 times. See John 11:11-14. When we are asleep soundly, we are not aware of time passing at all. We are at rest - complete rest. Jesus has the keys of hell and of death (Revelation 1:18). When He returns, the dead in Christ will be resurrected, and we which are alive and remain will be caught up tother with them in the air to meet the Lord(1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17). You would do well to study diligently this topic for yourself, comparing scripture with scripture, and allowing the Bible ti interpret itself. Please visit www.discoveronline.org for Bible studies on this and all the major and commonly misunderstood themes of the Bible. A word of caution: Just because a person supplies Bible texts, that doens't necessarily mean that his stance is in accordance in scripture. So, I encourage you to study for yourself. God bless. |
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2 | Ref. on animals having no spirit? | James 2:26 | Emmaus | 93949 | ||
Body and Soul 362. "The human person, created in the image of God, is a being at once corporeal and spiritual. The biblical account expresses this reality in symbolic language when it affirms that 'then the LORD God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living being.'[Gen 2:7 .] Man, whole and entire, is therefore willed by God." 363. "In Sacred Scripture the term 'soul' often refers to human life or the entire human person.[Cf. Mt 16:25-26 ; Jn 15:13 ; Acts 2:41 .] But 'soul' also refers to the innermost aspect of man, that which is of greatest value in him,[Cf. Mt 10:28 ; Mt 26:38 ; Jn 12:27 ; 2 Macc 6 30 .] that by which he is most especially in God's image: 'soul' signifies the spiritual principle in man." 365. "The unity of soul and body is so profound that one has to consider the soul to be the 'form' of the body:[Cf. Council of Vienne (1312): DS 902.] i.e., it is because of its spiritual soul that the body made of matter becomes a living, human body; spirit and matter, in man, are not two natures united, but rather their union forms a single nature." 364. "The human body shares in the dignity of 'the image of God': it is a human body precisely because it is animated by a spiritual soul, and it is the whole human person that is intended to become, in the body of Christ, a temple of the Spirit:[Cf. 1 Cor 6:19-20 ; 1 Cor 15:44-45 .] Man, though made of body and soul, is a unity. Through his very bodily condition he sums up in himself the elements of the material world. Through him they are thus brought to their highest perfection and can raise their voice in praise freely given to the Creator. For this reason man may not despise his bodily life. Rather he is obliged to regard his body as good and to hold it in honour since God has created it and will raise it up on the last day " 366. "The Church teaches that every spiritual soul is created immediately by God - it is not 'produced' by the parents - and also that it is immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death, and it will be reunited with the body at the final Resurrection.[Cf. Pius XII, Humani generis: DS 3896; Paul VI, CPC # 8; Lateran Council V (1513): DS 1440.]" 367. "Sometimes the soul is distinguished from the spirit: St. Paul for instance prays that God may sanctify his people 'wholly', with 'spirit and soul and body' kept sound and blameless at the Lord's coming.[1 Th 5:23 .] The Church teaches that this distinction does not introduce a duality into the soul.[Cf. Council of Constantinople IV (870): DS 657.] 'Spirit' signifies that from creation man is ordered to a supernatural end and that his soul can gratuitously be raised beyond all it deserves to communion with God.[Cf. Vatican Council I, Dei Filius: DS 3005; GS 22 # 5; Humani generis: DS 3891.]" The Catechism |
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