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Results from: Answered Bible Questions, Unanswered Bible Questions Author: kiwi_david Ordered by Verse |
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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 | 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. | ||||||
3 | 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. | ||||||