Taken
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Let me ask you what you believe that the *biblical* definition of a “soul” is?
In brief I believe the soul activates the life of a human body.
What did the ancient Jews (like Solomon and David) believe that a “soul” was?
What about Moses, who wrote Genesis?
You can research their answers.
What do the Christian scriptures teach that a “soul” is? Are the definitions different?
Did God give one definition to the ancients and a different one to the Christian disciples of Jesus?
You can do your own research.
God created a body for Adam from the dust (or elements) of the earth (which science confirms).
But reading Genesis 2:7 we see that God breathed “life” into Adam’s body and began the process by which all things live....”breathing”.
"And the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and He breathed into his nostrils the soul of life, and man became a living soul (nep̄eš)." (Genesis 2:7 Jewish Tanakh)
I SEE the highlight differently...
Gods Works;
(Gods Hands, Gods Breath, God identifying one of His Creations; Man-KIND)
* God Formed a body, ie Created of Dust.
AND
* God Made that Form, ie Made Alive.
According to Strongs, the same word is used for all the "creatures" that God created (Genesis 1:20-30).....all are "souls". We all breathe the same air and die the same death and go to the same place.....so please tell me why Solomon could say that humans have no advantage over animals in death, if that was not true? (Ecclesiastes 3:19-20) Are we to assume that animals also have some spiritual part of them that goes somewhere else at death?
The issue is not breathing oxygen.
Does it say that God “gave” Adam a “soul”? Or does it say that Adam “BECAME” a “soul” when God started him breathing?
Scripture is Clear...Something that was NOT IN a form-ED man-KIND of thing, was ENTERED INTO the man-KIND of thing.
AND THEN
WHAT? The non Living created Man-KIND of Creation was MADE ALIVE is called a
LIVING SOUL.
When you answer my first question about what a “soul” is in the Bible, you will see that any animate, living, breathing creation of God is called a “soul” in Genesis. (Hebrew, nep̄eš or neʹphesh, which literally means “a breathing creature”.) Most translations will render it "creature" but it is the same word for "soul"....a "breather".
A Created FORM, called a man, WITH a LIVING SOUL “IN” that FORM, is called a Living soul.
What do you call a Formed man, WITHOUT a Living soul “IN” that formed man? A DEAD body. A DEAD man.
When we (any living creature) stop breathing we die....like Ezekiel 18:4 says....
"Behold, all souls are Mine. Like the soul of the father, like the soul of the son they are Mine; the soul that sins, it shall die." (Jewish Tanakh) Souls are mortal. So there is no claim from scripture that can be made to state otherwise.
You are ignoring the Form and concentrating on the Soul.
The Form IS MORTAL...It’s LIFE IS BLOOD, not “oxygen”.
Nothing says the SOUL is ‘mortal’.
Death is physical or spiritual.
A physical living man can be called DEAD, while he is alive.
Animals were not created in God's image and so they have a natural cycle of life and are 'programmed' for death...unlike humans for whom death is foreign....something to be avoided at all costs. We were not created to die. If humans had not sinned, they never would have died. (Genesis 3:22-24) God had to deny access to the "tree of life" to carry out the death penalty. And since God told them that "in the day they ate from it they would surely die"....what then was the "day" God spoke about?
2 Peter 3:8...answers...
"But do not let this one fact escape your notice, beloved, that with the Lord one day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years like one day."
Not a single "soul" made it to 1,000 years old....so all died before a "day" was over for them.
Too convoluted to respond.
Read the scriptures without the *immortal soul* lens and you will see the truth.....
*immortal soul*
When “I” say ^ that, you can offer your advice. To date, I have not said that!