What is a soul?

Skrill · Post by **Skrill** » Sun Sep 07, 2014 9:54 pm

It is fact that the Physical Brain controls memories, personality. Thousands of other actions are all controlled by our nervous system, which is managed by our brains.

Therefore, what consensus is there for any evidence for a soul(s)? As the existence of the soul is very central to any belief or religion.

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hoghead1 · Post by **hoghead1** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 7:55 pm

[Replying to post 249 by JehovahsWitness]

Our names are names for a society of perishing occasions, no two occasions ever being identical. As I said, no thinker thinks twice. You can never go back to the way you were before. Try gong back to exactly the way you felt when you were, say, 11, for example. If you wanted to think of each of us as going through a continual process of death and rebirth, you certainly could. If you want to know what happened to the old self, the person you were a moment ago or at age ten, my answer is that the past is preserved in all its detail in God's eternal memory. That's why I said God guarantees the meaningfulness of life.

hoghead1 · Post by **hoghead1** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 8:01 pm

[Replying to post 250 by Talishi]

To be a physical entity, to have a body, does not necessarily require flesh and blood. Flesh and blood are not the only way to exist physically. That's just common sense. After all, right now, crucial parts of me are purely plastic. I have a stint and I have all false teeth, and I actually can play my French horn better with the "store-bought" teeth than with my original. I believe we are moving on to a greater integration of "human and machine." So flesh and blood is not the only way a human can exist. What the Bible does not say is what this new body will be like or what we will be like, just hat we will all be changed.

Talishi · Post by **Talishi** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 8:05 pm

hoghead1 wrote: To be a physical entity, to have a body, does not necessarily require flesh and blood. Flesh and blood are not the only way to exist physically.

The only way to exist physically are as animals, minerals, or vegetables. I do not want to exist as a machine or as a shrub, that leaves only animal, which is made of flesh and blood.

Checkpoint · Post by **Checkpoint** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 8:12 pm

hoghead1 wrote: [Replying to post 244 by onewithhim]

The Bible does not view Gehenna as total annihilation, however. Read Lk. 16.

Where is Gehenna in Luke 16?

hoghead1 · Post by **hoghead1** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 8:14 pm

[Replying to post 253 by Talishi]

Yes, but you see, it is precisely that idea that I, and also the Bible, are challenging. Furthermore, I view all of matter as alive, as having a subjective dimension. There is no hard-and-fast dividing line between the living and the nonliving, the organic and the inorganic, what's the case at the very top of the evolutionary scale is also the case at the lower, for example. I know I already addressed these matters in earlier emails, by the way. If you think of a machine as denoting jus passive, inert, dead matter, there is no such thing. As I just explained, today, via modern medicine, we are exploring all kinds of creative possibilities for existence other than through flesh and blood.

hoghead1 · Post by **hoghead1** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 8:15 pm

[Replying to post 254 by Checkpoint]

Where the rich man is.

Checkpoint · Post by **Checkpoint** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 8:31 pm

hoghead1 wrote: [Replying to post 241 by onewithhim]

I have answered this question several times already. Please read my posts. The Bible does not tell us where the resurrected are, where Paradise is. Jesus and Paul didn't tell me and I want to know.

There is so far only one who has been resurrected, Jesus, and he is said to be at the right hand of the Father.

He will, at some time yet future, return, and raise the dead.

1 Corinthians 15:

20 But now Christ has been raised from the dead, the first fruits of those who are asleep.
21 For since by a man came death, by a man also came the resurrection of the dead. 22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ all will be made alive.

23 But each in his own order: Christ the first fruits, after that those who are Christâ€™s at His coming.

Talishi · Post by **Talishi** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 8:48 pm

Checkpoint wrote: There is so far only one who has been resurrected, Jesus, and he is said to be at the right hand of the Father.

You do greatly err. Jesus resurrected Lazarus and the daughter of Jairus and Peter resurrected Tabitha. Hundreds or thousands of saints were resurrected and emerged from their graves in Matthew 27:52.

hoghead1 · Post by **hoghead1** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 9:03 pm

[Replying to post 257 by Checkpoint]

Some have argued for that idea, based on Paul in I Cor. 15. However, Christ tells the thief that today he will be in Paradise (LI> 23). Also, LI. 16 speaks of an immediate kind judgment and then resurrection into the hereafter. Therefore , some have argued for two types of judgment, one immediate at death , and a later one at the end of the world. Well, OK, but I am inclined to think this is another case of teh Bible simply being contradictory on maters.

Checkpoint · Post by **Checkpoint** » Fri Oct 14, 2016 9:08 pm

Talishi wrote:
Checkpoint wrote: There is so far only one who has been resurrected, Jesus, and he is said to be at the right hand of the Father.
You do greatly err. Jesus resurrected Lazarus and the daughter of Jairus and Peter resurrected Tabitha. Hundreds or thousands of saints were resurrected and emerged from their graves in Matthew 27:52.

Indeed, if those were instances of resurrection to eternal life in the kingdom of God.

None of them were, and they would all have died just like everyone else does.

I am well aware of those happenings, but they are not what I or Paul are talking about.

Those verses were quoted for a reason, and state clearly the parameters.