This question is for believers of all faiths, and also for agnostics and atheists. Also, what informs your definition ? Does it come from your holy scriptures, your observations, nature or something else ?
2007-07-22 08:32:00 · 12 answers · asked by queenthesbian 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
your body and brain is like a computer. your soul is like the software that is written on the hard drive of your brain whereas spirit is like the electricity running through the computer. Unlike a computer, when the power is cut off, your brain begins to decompose and you loose your soul.
2007-07-22 08:41:40 · answer #1 · answered by 自由思想家 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The Soul is the life of the Body ,the Spirit is the life of the Soul.
Hence it is possible to walk around with a dead spirit. That would make the Person just like a Zombie ,because be cause there is no life in the Soul.
Paul in the New testament speaks of people being spiritually dead.
2007-07-22 15:40:56 · answer #2 · answered by goring 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Actually, my own observations from Scriptures in the Bible seem to indicate that the Spirit is the part of a person that communicates with God and makes one aware of the spiritual realms. The Soul is the seat of personal awareness of the world (that being the people of the world, not the planet), the Heart is the seat of the emotions, and the mind, of course, the seat of reasoning.
2007-07-22 15:41:24 · answer #3 · answered by Steve 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
It is my spirit that allows me to have an awareness and a relationship with God. Not sure if it is the same thing as a soul or not.
Personal experience.
2007-07-22 15:37:19 · answer #4 · answered by Poohcat1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
no.
Spirit
Definition: The Hebrew word ru´ach and the Greek pneu´ma, which are often translated “spirit,” have a number of meanings. All of them refer to that which is invisible to human sight and which gives evidence of force in motion. The Hebrew and Greek words are used with reference to (1) wind, (2) the active life-force in earthly creatures, (3) the impelling force that issues from a person’s figurative heart and that causes him to say and do things in a certain way, (4) inspired utterances originating with an invisible source, (5) spirit persons, and (6) God’s active force, or holy spirit.
Soul
Definition: 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.
What does the Bible say that helps us to understand what the soul is?
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.)
2007-07-22 15:35:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
You are a spirit when you have no house, your spirit is a soul when it is in a house, because you are not the only spirit present in your house.
2007-07-22 15:38:08 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spirit. (aka soul): The imaginary essence attributed to life and particularly to human life that lives on after physical death.
2007-07-22 15:38:24 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
God put His flaming Holy Ghost in your heart and you the Soul!
2007-07-22 15:36:48 · answer #8 · answered by Robert W 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The soul is your mind and your spirit is you.
2007-07-22 15:41:07 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
the soul is what makes you different from me ,the spirit is what makes us the same
http://frikkiebotes.homemarker.com/cgi-bin/blog/view_post/207431
2007-07-22 15:39:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋