Let’s just talk ‘Human’ Souls…:
- ‘Eight Souls were saved from the waters of the flood’ in the days of Noah.
- ‘Eight Persons (People) were saved from the waters of the flood’ in the days of Noah.’
The Hebrew word ‘Nephesh’ was translated as ‘
Soul’…
By the time of the Greeks in the New Testament, the word used was ….
By the time of Latin the translated word was ‘Persona’ (around 1100 AD), which was later simplified to ‘
Person’ and seems as though it (or in such little usage so as to be …) only applied to humanity.
‘Soul’ is rarely used except in a emotive sense or in religious sense because we use the word ‘Person’, today.
Some of the misunderstanding about ‘Soul’ and ‘Person’ comes from those who have no knowledge of the history or the ‘Etymology’ … and just want to promote a certain wrongful belief (… that ‘Soul’ is a third part of a PERSON!!!???!!) which makes no sense considering that:
- God made a body of the person named ‘Adam’
- God out a spirit into the body of the person called Adam
- The person of Adam became a living person (a living soul)