2007-01-31 08:25:25 · 4 answers · asked by STORMY K 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Dear Stormy K:
The soul (in the teachings of Spirituality) is what God Created. It is like the Creator since He is expansive and Creates more of Himself. We are a part OF Him, but not Him. We exist within Him since he is everywhere (filling all space) but cannot, in human form, "see" what has no shape, form, nor color. He is Mind - Spirit Mind. Humans call this, in ourself, Soul.
The soul knows God. It is never on a "quest" to know Him since it is OF Him. God never is out of communion with our Soul, but the part of our consciousness known as the Intellect, is.
In the experience of physical life the Intellect guides us in a world that is different from God's Kingdom (just by the fact of its physical-ness.) The Intellect quests for God. But the Soul or spirit-mind simply knows Him as it knows it's Self. This Self is considered holy. Hence, we say the holy sons of God. Yet, we are having the experience of being the sons of Man.
The human Intellect experiences a Separation from God. It goes many different directions trying to understand what it believes it has no experience of - and is uncertain of it's relationship to it's Creator, or if there truly is a Creator to relate to. So the quest is through the human mind.
Jesus tried to demonstrate to us the Nature of God and the attributes of our Creator that WE actually embody ; like eternal-ness. He would teach you, today, through your Intellect if he is invited by you to do so. But, what he does, while teaching us, is to bring us into alignment with what our soul or spirit-mind knows. In this way, division of mind ceases; we become one with our God Created Self, and recall our relationship with Him. At a high level of learning, we become at One with ourselves, each other, and with the Holy Spirit and Jesus. That puts us automatically back into knowing God - in BOTH spirit and Intellect. This should be our goal.
Sincerely, Lana
2007-01-31 15:24:55 · answer #1 · answered by Lana S (1) 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. The soul seeks the things of the soul: the will, intellect and emotion.
The word is "psyche" and to deal with it people often go to Pshych-iartrists.
The "spirit" of a person seeks spiritual things .... if it is alive. Jesus pointed out that a person needs to be born again in order to have a living spirit which could see the spiritual matters of God , who IS as spirit.
1 Cor 2:14-16
14 But the natural man does not receive the things of the Spirit of God, for they are foolishness to him; nor can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. 15 But he who is spiritual judges all things, yet he himself is rightly judged by no one. 16 For "who has known the mind of the LORD that he may instruct Him?" But we have the mind of Christ.
NKJV
2007-01-31 08:44:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
In the 2nd chapter of Genesis Adam is described as becoming a "living soul. and at Genesis 2:30 a life is described as a soul:
30Â "And to every wild beast of the earth and to every flying creature of the heavens and to everything moving upon the earth in which there is life as a soul I have given all green vegetation for food.” And it came to be so". Just in the book of Genesis alone the word soul is used 37 times and in many of those times it is used as "living soul".
Ezekiel 18:4 states that "the soul that is sinning it itself will die".
Mark 3:4 states: Â "Next he said to them: “Is it lawful on the sabbath to do a good deed or to do a bad deed, to save or to kill a soul?” But they kept silent".
If we study how the word "soul" is used in the bible, we find that it isn't immortal as so many religious leaders would have us think, but rather, it is the life of a person contained in ones blood. In short, your soul is you. In Ecclesiastes 9:5 and 10, we can read that the dead no nothing at all and aren't able to do anything. Anyway, if we had immortal souls, Jesus's sacrifice would have been for nothing because he promised a resurrection of the dead which makes mo sense if we have "immortal souls".
Thank you for asking this question because it is just one of the many issues that religious leaders are causeing people to be confused about and as a result religion is losing its effectiveness and its ability to have proper meaning in people's lives.
2007-01-31 12:30:20 · answer #3 · answered by quaver 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The soul as defined is: that which is the mind, will and emotions.
2007-01-31 08:35:32 · answer #4 · answered by bonsai bobby 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋