If the soul is eternal, that means that my soul has existed for an eternity already - the eternity before I was born. And, after 60 or 80 earthly years, I shall die and my soul shall again be eternal...
But if this is the case, why does my soul have no recollection of being eternal?? Why do I not know God, and am instead an atheist?? Did your God not give me a soul? Or does my soul not allow my earthly self to remember - and why not?
Why do I not have any memories of the eternity I have existed before this very point right here and now???
2007-01-19 04:50:54 · 16 answers · asked by YDoncha_Blowme 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
According to the Bible, the soul is the blood and dies with the body. In ancient Israel, when they sacrificed the lamb they were to first slit its throat and allow the soul to pour out on the ground. When there are bombings in Israel, they scrap up every bit of the souls, the blood, that is left on everything, including chipping up the streets.
As such, the soul is the second thing to come into existence, right after the development of the heart. In fact, if the anti-abortionists were smart, they would start teaching what the Bible says about the soul and that when the fetus is killed, the soul is also killed.
No, the soul is not eternal, it is mortal. As for the spirit of life, the Bible says we share that with all forms of life, none being greater than the other. When we die, what we were is either recorded, or not, in the Book of Life. When resurrected, it is than downloaded into a new body, a spirit body for those resurrected the first time, or a human body, for the second resurrection of Revelations.
2007-01-19 05:34:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Many people make this mistake. The soul is the breath life. It is the life we have. It is not eternal.
Spirit is different. It is the bit that most people call soul and confuse with the soul.
Spirit was lost when Adam fell but was made available as a gift of God by Christ.
Not everyone has the spirit. It is available to all, but not everyone knows about it or accepts it.
And as for being eternal. This doesn't mean it always existed. In the context it means it goes on forever. This implies a beginning point for it.
Only God is of the eternal that has no beginning or end, all other things have a beginning and most have an end.
2007-01-19 09:13:06 · answer #2 · answered by ManoGod 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
That is where the idea of reincarnation comes from. You are supposed to live 1000 years so when you die after 60 or 80 years your soul re-inhabits some other body and contginues. Some people do have other memories so it does happen. Some go back to Atlantis - thousands of years.
2007-01-19 04:55:20 · answer #3 · answered by bocasbeachbum 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the Bible, "soul" is translated from the Hebrew ne´phesh and the Greek psy?khe´. Bible usage shows the soul to be a person or an animal or the life that a person or an animal enjoys. To many persons, however, "soul" means the immaterial or spirit part of a human being that survives the death of the physical body. Others understand it to be the principle of life. But these latter views are not Bible teachings.
Gen. 2:7: "Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul." (Notice that this does not say that man was given a soul but that he became a soul, a living person.) (The part of the Hebrew word here rendered "soul" is ne´phesh. KJ, AS, and Dy agree with that rendering. RS, JB, NAB read "being." NE says "creature." Kx reads "person.")
1 Cor. 15:45: "It is even so written: 'The first man Adam became a living soul.' The last Adam became a life-giving spirit." (So the Christian Greek Scriptures agree with the Hebrew Scriptures as to what the soul is.) (The Greek word here translated "soul" is the accusative case of psy?khe´. KJ, AS, Dy, JB, NAB, and Kx also read "soul." RS, NE, and TEV say "being.")
1 Pet. 3:20: "In Noah's days . . . a few people, that is, eight souls, were carried safely through the water." (The Greek word here translated "souls" is psy?khai´, the plural form of psy?khe´. KJ, AS, Dy, and Kx also read "souls." JB and TEV say "people"; RS, NE, and NAB use "persons.")
Gen. 9:5: "Besides that, your blood of your souls [or, "lives"; Hebrew, from ne´phesh] shall I ask back." (Here the soul is said to have blood.)
Josh. 11:11: "They went striking every soul [Hebrew, ne´phesh] that was in it with the edge of the sword." (The soul is here shown to be something that can be touched by the sword, so these souls could not have been spirits.)
2007-01-19 04:56:30 · answer #4 · answered by Janos 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You have no memories because you did not exist before your birth. Our souls do not come into existence until we are conceived. This is a look into the creative power that we have a share in with God, the ability to create new life.
2007-01-19 05:00:54 · answer #5 · answered by Danny H 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because you believe your mind and what you have been told. Most Christians do not feel their eternal aspects either...that is why there are Christians that fear and dread death.
We are told and taught that we are small and limited. You have to let everything go in order to re-establish the feeling of eternal-ness and boundlessness...as you had as a baby.
Most do not remember who they were before birth...but there are some who do (although it seems rare). It is a mystery...but a mystery I have never cared to try and answer. There is no point to it.
~ Eric Putkonen
2007-01-19 04:56:41 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your life as you know it started when you were born. Yes that life came from God. Everything comes from God. And it will return to God. Some to eternal punishment because they believed not on Jesus Christ to be saved from Adam and Eve's sin that came upon all men. Others to Heaven because they chose to believe and to receive Christ Jesus as God's way of being excepted back into the fellowship with God. It is simple DUDE God made it SIMPLE. Don't over look it.
2007-01-19 04:59:51 · answer #7 · answered by justice 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your soul is (who you are, your inclinations, your heart, your understanding, your 'being') this was created along with your spirit when you where born.
Do not get this mixed up with "spirit". The two are different. They will last "forever" but did not exist forever in the past, that is why you do not have a memory of things before you where born.
2007-01-19 04:58:28 · answer #8 · answered by ἡ ἐκλογὴ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yet another flaw with the assumption of a soul is that a soul is what the two is going up or all the way down to Hell the place they get tortured forever. yet how do you torture something that has no nerves to experience discomfort? Christian good judgment hurts my techniques.
2016-10-07 09:59:51 · answer #9 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
God is the only one who always was, and always will be.Yes, our souls are eternal, but it had a beginning, when God created us.It is God who gave our souls this qauality.
2007-01-19 04:56:54 · answer #10 · answered by WC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋