This thread is in response to some in here who think that the soul dies with the body when our flesh dies.
You are correct in that we are made up of both our bodies and our spirits. It is unnatural for our spirits to be absent from our bodies, and yet that is exactly what takes place when we die. When Jesus died on the cross, he said I commend my Spirit to God, and yet His body was placed in the grave at that point. Jesus, as you know, was the firstfruits of the resurrection. It is this fact that is our hope of being resurrected. If what you say is true, (those who believe in the death of the soul), then Jesus' spirit ceased to exist at death, and was resurrected, therefore, Jesus is not eternal and is instead a created being. That is a very bad heresy.
1. The soul is mentioned in the bible as something separate from the physical nature.
Revelation 6: 9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.
2. The spirit is treated as separate and distinct from the body.
Matthew 27: 50 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
Romans 8: 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.
Acts 7: 59 While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."
3. Death is a separation of the person from the body.
2 Corinthians 5: 1 Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. .......8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9 So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.
2 Peter 1: 13 I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of this body,14 because I know that I will soon put it aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
Ecclesiastes 12: 7 and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
See also 2 Cor. 10:3; 12:2-3; Gal. 2:20; Phil 1:20-24; Heb. 13:3.
The dualistic nature of humans, i.e. soul/body is apparent in numerous scriptural references, many of which I have not listed in the interest of brevity. The insistence of many groups on the fringes of orthodoxy that the soul dies with the body, is because they have placed the Scriptures as of secondary importance to the teachings of their false prophets.
When Christ returns to claim His Church, we will all be resurrected into new bodies, ones not made of flesh and blood and the materials of this world, but ones which are made for eternal life in our new home which Jesus has prepared for us. Between death and the second return, our souls will be in paradise.
You are correct in that we are made up of both our bodies and our spirits. It is unnatural for our spirits to be absent from our bodies, and yet that is exactly what takes place when we die. When Jesus died on the cross, he said I commend my Spirit to God, and yet His body was placed in the grave at that point. Jesus, as you know, was the firstfruits of the resurrection. It is this fact that is our hope of being resurrected. If what you say is true, (those who believe in the death of the soul), then Jesus' spirit ceased to exist at death, and was resurrected, therefore, Jesus is not eternal and is instead a created being. That is a very bad heresy.
1. The soul is mentioned in the bible as something separate from the physical nature.
Revelation 6: 9 When he opened the fifth seal, I saw under the altar the souls of those who had been slain because of the word of God and the testimony they had maintained.
2. The spirit is treated as separate and distinct from the body.
Matthew 27: 50 And when Jesus had cried out again in a loud voice, he gave up his spirit.
Romans 8: 16 The Spirit himself testifies with our spirit that we are God's children.
Acts 7: 59 While they were stoning him, Stephen prayed, "Lord Jesus, receive my spirit."
3. Death is a separation of the person from the body.
2 Corinthians 5: 1 Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands. .......8 We are confident, I say, and would prefer to be away from the body and at home with the Lord. 9 So we make it our goal to please him, whether we are at home in the body or away from it.
2 Peter 1: 13 I think it is right to refresh your memory as long as I live in the tent of this body,14 because I know that I will soon put it aside, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.
Ecclesiastes 12: 7 and the dust returns to the ground it came from, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.
See also 2 Cor. 10:3; 12:2-3; Gal. 2:20; Phil 1:20-24; Heb. 13:3.
The dualistic nature of humans, i.e. soul/body is apparent in numerous scriptural references, many of which I have not listed in the interest of brevity. The insistence of many groups on the fringes of orthodoxy that the soul dies with the body, is because they have placed the Scriptures as of secondary importance to the teachings of their false prophets.
When Christ returns to claim His Church, we will all be resurrected into new bodies, ones not made of flesh and blood and the materials of this world, but ones which are made for eternal life in our new home which Jesus has prepared for us. Between death and the second return, our souls will be in paradise.
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