2007-12-11 04:59:00 · 8 answers · asked by musa a 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
In ancient Roman understanding, the spirit was a part of your mental being, while the soul was your eternal being. "Animus," the Latin word for mind and spirit, is where we get our word animosity. "Anima" is the word for soul. They are two different things.
2007-12-11 05:09:21 · answer #1 · answered by 雅威的烤面包机 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The soul is the individuals mental psyche.
The spirit is iether pure human or varying degrees of animal nature.
The soul is formed by the mind and the will that drives a person. The spirit is a particle or the quantum sum of the large entity prevailing about. The greater the spirit, the more awakened, the more substantive and high calibre the individual.
2007-12-11 13:07:59 · answer #2 · answered by VAndors Excelsior™ (Jeeti Johal Bhuller)™ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Spirit is universal, soul is individual. Soul derives from our thoughts and emotions and is particular to the individual or animal that experiences them.
Just a note here on that. The Bible translation that JWs use is correct in it's translation of the creation regarding the animals that crawl upon the Earth "that have souls".
2007-12-11 13:07:49 · answer #3 · answered by steve what 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is a vast difference. The soul is that part of you that relates to the natural world around you and includes your mind your emotions and your will. The spirit of man is that part of you that relates to the spiritual realm around you and includes things like your conscience, your ability to "hear the Spirit of God" etc. Jesus taught that when you are "born again" you are born in your spirit, and that is the eternal part of you that will be taken to heaven.
2007-12-11 13:06:39 · answer #4 · answered by oldguy63 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have seen it documented scrpiturally that soul = spirit + body, such as when the bible refers to massive numbers of souls persihing from whatever God happened to thrown down that day. Souls perish as their spirit leaves their body.
2007-12-11 13:02:39 · answer #5 · answered by Fred S - AM Cappo Di Tutti Capi 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the word "Spirit" is from Pneuma (Gr.) and the Heb equivalent meaning breath. YHVH breathed the breath of life into the man (Adam) and He BECAME a living soul.
2007-12-11 13:03:30 · answer #6 · answered by hasse_john 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
guy above me confused its the other way round, when someone is argued to have spirit it refers to them in life, soul refers to more.
2007-12-11 13:09:19 · answer #7 · answered by Kieran H 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
same thing.
2007-12-11 20:27:30 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋