I saw it in an answer, that they do not mean the same thing, and that animals have soul but no spirit. What does each of them mean?
2007-11-04 07:31:41 · 18 answers · asked by larissa 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The spirit is the portion of God that lives in you and is attached to a silver cord. When that snaps is when your spirit goes back to God who gave it. Actually we are the life of God and the breath of God.
The soul on the other hand is you intellect, your personality, your emotions, that part of you that always remains you.
Your pets have souls and spirit because, what would heaven be without Toto, or your precious pet. They are your little guardians on earth or your little angels.
They do have souls but not like humans souls.
2007-11-04 07:55:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
We have a lot of energetic bodies and exisit in many different states of consciousness at once.
I prefer the following categorisation of spirit:
1. We are possessed by a life giving, harmonizing force this is part of the spirit.
2. We have a personality, which is part of our spirit
3. We have thoughts and emotions which are spirit
4. We have consciousness which at the moment is in our spirit
After the decay of our physical bodies the spirit remains and can either move to a new physical body, remain spirit or dissolve so only the soul remains. Spirits, although long lived, are temporary and grow and change constantly.
The soul:
1.Is constant in being beyond space and time
2. Is connected to the fabric of the universe in an unlimited fashion
3. Is free from thought and emotion, but not from will and intent
4. Is not constrained to one form, such as personality, species or gender, but rather transcends those experiences
The soul is what remains when we finally let go of our spirit. The soul can then chose to become obedient to the will of the Creator, which could open the possibility of leaving this universe, or may choose to continue fulfilling it's own will by spawning a new spirit to connect it to the physical world.
The awareness of the soul is what is called enlightenment.
2007-11-04 19:58:26 · answer #2 · answered by han_ko_bicknese 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You ARE a Spirit. You (a Spirit--invisible) Look Just like your Body.
You fit Hand in Glove--sorta' speaking!
Your Soul is where you keep your Second Mind, your Will, and your Emotions.
Your Soul hooks YOU (a Spirit) to your Body through your Brain.
You, a Spirit, are your First MIND (You Know Who You Are :)
Your Soul is your Second Mind--it is an Invisible Super-Computer that Remembers for you, Imagines for you, Dreams for you so on.
When you Wake up in the Morning YOU know Who you ARE (this is You, First Mind).
If you try to remember something Right After Waking Up, your Brain (Soul and Brain work as a Team, and affect each other) might need some more Oxygen (coffee?) to get The Soul going real good with the Brain!
See?
Hope this helps.
p.s. Your Cute! (Avatar)
2007-11-04 07:42:24 · answer #3 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The soul is a kind of envelope of spirit.
When people dies, their souls are still exist and they could feel all attachments they had in their lives (like love for someone or even hate), but I think that the second death from Holy Bible it means the death of all these attachments - the purification of soul, so that only the spirit remains and the spirit is essentially good because he came from God.
So I could say that spirit is the seed of soul.
2007-11-04 09:16:43 · answer #4 · answered by Claudia A 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
We have neither -- in the spiritual sense. We *are* a living soul -- we don't *have* one (Gen. 2:7; 1Cor. 15:45). The Bible formula for a living soul:
Dust of the Ground + Breath of Life = A Living Soul
We also don't *have* the spiritual concept of a "spirit." The word translated in the Bible into the English word "spirit" is referring to the Breath of Life given to us by God. Without the Breath, we are just plain dead -- back to the Dust of the Gound (Gen. 3:19; Psalms 104:29). The Bible formula for death:
A Living Soul - Breath of Life = Dust of the Ground
For more Bible information on this topic, go to the Amazing Facts website and read the free study guide entitled: Are The Dead Really Dead? I'd post the link, but YA is blocking it.
2007-11-04 07:34:50 · answer #5 · answered by ♫DaveC♪♫ 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
In my opinion, spirit is essential to all living things. It is this that the bible refer to as the image of God. It is conscious throughout. It is never unconscious. It is present anywhere in terms of physical dimension. A soul, on the other hand, refers to a part-spirit that fuses with a physical body capable of exhibiting life-characteristics such as humans and animals. Every living thing has soul and spirit based on that definition above. Eastern Religion believes that even non-living things possess a spirit but since it does not exhibit life-characteristics it remains soul-less.
2007-11-04 07:50:37 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
The souls of people are the thoughts of God.
God breathes into his thoughts and the soul is entwine with the spirit.
God sends these new created soul-spirits on their way to be redeemed.
The soul is basically the spirits mind, and the spirit is the souls body form.
2007-11-04 07:47:24 · answer #7 · answered by inteleyes 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The soul of living things is also spirit.
Spirits also exists that have never been in a living thing.
Both were produced in different manners.
2007-11-04 07:38:03 · answer #8 · answered by 1Netzari 4 · 1⤊ 3⤋
A soul is what we think with, feel with, and discipline.
Our spirit is what makes the decision of eternal significance.
Our spirit is what sets us apart from animals.
S
2007-11-04 07:37:23 · answer #9 · answered by squeezy 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The Spirit of man is that which comes from God, it is eternal.
The Soul is: The Will. The Immotions, and The Mind of man. It is Temporal.
Minister
2007-11-04 07:36:27 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋