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NASB | Matthew 22:37 And He said to him, "'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.' |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Matthew 22:37 And Jesus replied to him, " 'YOU SHALL LOVE THE LORD YOUR GOD WITH ALL YOUR HEART, AND WITH ALL YOUR SOUL, AND WITH ALL YOUR MIND.' [Deut 6:5] |
Bible Question (short): The soul and the mind |
Question (full): 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. |