Soapy
Son of his Father: The Heir and Prince
Just a point of order… I am not JW!I'm going to change that to say that in your opinion, "it is only partially true." That's because right now, all we mortals have is a bunch of opinions. We interpret the Bible to the best of our abilities, and conclude that we're right and that everybody else is wrong.
Actually, the word "person" is used 139 times in the Bible. But I would agree that a "living soul" is a person, and I never stated otherwise.
Actually, I believe that Adam's spirit (aka "the breath of life") was created prior to his body, as I believe that God created our spirits out of highly refined matter that was co-eternal with with. To me, there really is no such thing as a "lifeless soul." There is an eternal spirit, a lifeless physical body, and the entity which exists once the eternal spirit enters into the physical body -- that entity being known as a "living soul."
I can agree with most of this. At death, the body is lifeless but the spirit continues to live on.
I disagree with this to the extent that God never created a spirit only to turn around and destroy it. Whether He can or not is a moot point to me.
Well, this is where we disagree and where my interpretation of scripture is different from yours. Different. Not necessarily wrong. Yes, one of us is wrong. Personally, I think we ought to wait until we stand before God to be judged before we come to any conclusions.
Look, I don't believe in the Trinity, but I don't agree with Jehovah's Witnesses doctrine either. The only one I actually listen to is God, and everything I know about Him and His Plan, I learned from Him.
And your view of a soul is confusing.
I don’t think you understand what you are saying.
You have a kind of understanding and on those pony’s we agree - but other than that your reasoning is all over the place.
A person … a soul… is body and spirit… nothing more!!
The body is just a machine…. By itself it can do nothing. It is when a spirit is put into it that that spirit ACTIVATES and ENLIVENS that body.
I don’t know what you know but think of a computer… Without a computer programme to activate it the computer is nothing but machinery!
A DEAD body is how we as humans describe a body without a spirit…. You should agree with this!
The Spirit that was in it is made to rest with GOD who created it. It is inert, resting, non-active … because it is not in a body to activate.
Agsin, of us like a computer programme stored on a disk … it can do nothing until it is put into a machine which it then activates.
A lifeless soul… You are again thinking wrongly…
Yoh seem to imagine a SOUL as Separate entity… hence your confusion.
SOUL is just another word for PERSON….
- Lifeless Soul
- Lifeless Person
The ‘lifeless’ is not pertaining to the ENTITY, per se… it is pertaining to the STATE of the entity:
- The SOUL is without life … is INACTIVE