According to the Old Testament, when we die, we are dead, period.
Where did this idea of the "Imortal Soul" come from?
2007-09-21 10:19:54 · 7 answers · asked by smkeller 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Stan - In the 600 years, and 36 books of the Old testament. there is NO mention of a "Soul" as the term is used today. Further there is NO mention of any afterlife, once you had died.
2007-09-22 05:24:09 · update #1
robin-ofthe-woods - Your answer is far and away the best so far. Your understanding excceeds my own.
2007-09-22 05:26:19 · update #2
tabatha - isn't it strange that one religion would pay so little attention to what another sees as it's main supports. The concept, as far as I know was added by later writers.
2007-09-22 05:30:02 · update #3
pissdown - your answer is the simply not correct. I know that must be what you learned in Sunday school. The "spirit" that is often mistaken for the "soul" was consciousness, and was extinguished at death. There is no mention of an afterlife in the OT.
Which only goes to show that mixing ignorance with attitude just results in a really lousy name.
2007-09-22 05:42:42 · update #4
According to the Hebrew the Soul is the Spirit + the Body, so you're right. The Soul is not separate from the body at all but considered the total of those two together. According to the Old Test, we're "asleep"... and the spirit returns to that which made it. Soul and Spirit are not interchangeable. The Holy Spirit was Never called the Holy Soul.
As far as I can tell "Immortal Soul" isn't in the Bible. I believe that's derived from one or two verses that speaks of Everlasting Life.
2007-09-21 10:38:12 · answer #1 · answered by River 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You have not done your homework. Some Jewish sects did not believe in the after life and a soul but others did, in Old Testament times. Look at the differences between the Seduces and Pharisees.
2007-09-21 17:38:17 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
In Judaism there is the concept of the afterlife, in fact, and also that of hell. It's just that we don't give it much space or emphasis; our religion is very much about the 'here and now'.
2007-09-21 17:25:33 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
um well no you're wrong as usual.
Ecc 12:6 Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern.
Ecc 12:7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
the vessel/body is broken and that which is contained in it goes back to God. the Ruach, or spirit.
go back to 2nd grade billy. leave the real scholarship to grown ups.
2007-09-21 17:25:10 · answer #4 · answered by pissdownsatansback 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
thats not entirely correct.
really Judaism and the old testament simply do not adress the spiritual world THAT much.
not adressing it does not mean considering it untrue.
2007-09-21 17:25:17 · answer #5 · answered by RW 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
There is so much about that religion that has just been made up. In fact, the whole freakin' thing has just been made up. There is no truth what so ever about it.
2007-09-21 17:26:53 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Islam.
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2007-09-21 17:25:31 · answer #7 · answered by Mithrianity 3 · 0⤊ 3⤋