on the soul

on the soul

Personally, I take the word ‘soul’ to be more or less synonymous with ‘mind’ or ‘personality’. I see no reason to believe that humans are ‘in their true nature’ some kind of ethereal spirit.

Biblically speaking, as Andrew has oft argued, resurrection from the dead is resurrection from the dead. That is to say, when we are dead, we are no more. To ask ‘where does the soul go?’ is like asking ‘where does the lifeforce go?’ or ‘where do thoughts go when you’re not thinking them?’. The questions assume that who we are is divorceable from our body. I see no biblical or philosophical reason, however, to assume that this is the case.

Am I making sense?

a storyteller's view of eternity By: stacy (49 replies) 14 September, 2006 - 00:24