david14433
I am a seeker of truth and reality.
I think most of our questions can be answered with this. What does soul mean and what does spirit mean. There are 4 different words for the original meaning of soul and spirit in the bible. Nephesh is Hebrew for soul, ruach is Hebrew for spirit, and pneuma is Greek for spirit and Psuche is greek for soul.
nephesh mean[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Geneva][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Geneva][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Geneva]s soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion [/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
ruach means spirit, wind, or divine breath. Ruach means the immaterial part of the self. That is consciousness or awareness.
Pneuma (πνεύμα
Psuche is a Greek word for soul
This biblical website explains it good here. Replace [dot] with a period.
www [dot] gci [dot] org/spiritual/soulspirit
OK now you can see the differences. Even though we have 4 words there are only two meanings. One is the self with all it's baggage like karma, persona, all of the attachments. This is the soul. Then the other is the more pure self. That is the true self. That true self is awareness or consciousness. Through meditation you can focus on your spirit or [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica]pneuma and find and cultivate spirit or conscious awareness. That is why through meditation you can remember your past lives.[/FONT]
You can see the difference here clearly.
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica]I Corinthians 15:45 "And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living "soul" ("psuche"); the last Adam was made a quickening 'spirit' (pneuma).[/FONT]
So in Luke 1:17 what is it?
Luke 1:17
And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit [pneuma] and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
This clearly shows that spirit means the inner self, the breath not the persona and all the labels and functions that we start getting at birth.
This is why it's so hard to remember our past lives because we mainly just bring our consciousness or awareness into this world through our nervous system. It's only the internal part that goes from life to life. The persona or soul with all it's labels and functions does not go from life to life. Only in very rare cases can someone remember a past life. But meditation can increase those chances.
There is a very scientific, technical book that talks about 20 cases of people that could remember a past life. It was looked into, and proven that indeed, the life they remembered was verified. The book is called.
Twenty cases suggestive of reincarnation
In the book the author does not even admit to reincarnation but says he does not know how these people could have known this about other people from the past. In his next book the author says the in all probability that they were reincarnated as there was no other possible explanation.
I hope I have at least got you thinking.
Peace!
nephesh mean[FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Geneva][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Geneva][FONT=Trebuchet MS, Arial, Geneva]s soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion [/FONT][/FONT][/FONT]
ruach means spirit, wind, or divine breath. Ruach means the immaterial part of the self. That is consciousness or awareness.
Pneuma (πνεύμα
Psuche is a Greek word for soul
This biblical website explains it good here. Replace [dot] with a period.
www [dot] gci [dot] org/spiritual/soulspirit
OK now you can see the differences. Even though we have 4 words there are only two meanings. One is the self with all it's baggage like karma, persona, all of the attachments. This is the soul. Then the other is the more pure self. That is the true self. That true self is awareness or consciousness. Through meditation you can focus on your spirit or [FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica]pneuma and find and cultivate spirit or conscious awareness. That is why through meditation you can remember your past lives.[/FONT]
You can see the difference here clearly.
[FONT=Verdana, Arial, Helvetica]I Corinthians 15:45 "And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living "soul" ("psuche"); the last Adam was made a quickening 'spirit' (pneuma).[/FONT]
So in Luke 1:17 what is it?
Luke 1:17
And he will go on before the Lord, in the spirit [pneuma] and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the parents to their children and the disobedient to the wisdom of the righteous—to make ready a people prepared for the Lord.”
This clearly shows that spirit means the inner self, the breath not the persona and all the labels and functions that we start getting at birth.
This is why it's so hard to remember our past lives because we mainly just bring our consciousness or awareness into this world through our nervous system. It's only the internal part that goes from life to life. The persona or soul with all it's labels and functions does not go from life to life. Only in very rare cases can someone remember a past life. But meditation can increase those chances.
There is a very scientific, technical book that talks about 20 cases of people that could remember a past life. It was looked into, and proven that indeed, the life they remembered was verified. The book is called.
Twenty cases suggestive of reincarnation
In the book the author does not even admit to reincarnation but says he does not know how these people could have known this about other people from the past. In his next book the author says the in all probability that they were reincarnated as there was no other possible explanation.
I hope I have at least got you thinking.
Peace!
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