Thursday, October 28, 2010
Spirits and Souls
While language may be an excellent tool for communication among people, I think that it really creates some gaps between cultures. Words carry so much meaning, and the same word may be interpreted completely different in one place and time from another. How should we interpret the words spirit and soul in the Bible? Are we immortal because of our understanding of spirits going to heaven and lasting beyond our bodies? Or are our spirits the life force that God gives us, part of our bodies, dying with our bodies, and not seen again until a bodily resurrection? How does it all fit together? And how do we get past the limitations of our language in order to explain and understand all of this?
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I believe that after the bodily resurrection we will become immortal for he will give us a glorious body as when He resurrected and I think we should interpret spirit in the Bible according to what is in the context which in most cases it is talking about the holy spirit in us.
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