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Which are processes of the body & brain - and cease when the body dies?The mind, will and emotions.
Which are processes of the body & brain - and cease when the body dies?
If not, what?
From my theology:
"The soul of man is an experiential acquirement. As a mortal creature chooses to "do the will of the Father in heaven," so the indwelling spirit becomes the father of a new reality in human experience. The mortal and material mind is the mother of this same emerging reality. The substance of this new reality is neither material nor spiritual—it is morontial. This is the emerging and immortal soul which is destined to survive mortal death and begin the Paradise ascension."
So it matters not what hemisphere of the brain choices come from, the soul is separate and in the high concious borderland between the material and spiritual.
Soul = Adamic mind, will, emotions after disobedience. The Spiritual connection to God vanished. The soulish nature thus acquired is the sinful nature. It will hang around until the demise of the individual. See John 14:6, John 3:16-17, John 3:3, John 5:24, Romans 10:8-13, Ephesians 2:8-9 for the "change" and what happens to some of us.
Original sin theory odopted by the Hebrews from the Persians.
If 'hang around' means persist or exist, that matches modern scientific understanding nicely. Somehow I suspect it means something different.Soul = Adamic mind, will, emotions after disobedience. The Spiritual connection to God vanished. The soulish nature thus acquired is the sinful nature. It will hang around until the demise of the individual.
I see no mention of the soul, just vague talk of possible 'salvation', whatever they mean by that.See John 14:6, John 3:16-17, John 3:3, John 5:24, Romans 10:8-13, Ephesians 2:8-9 for the "change" and what happens to some of us.
Original sin theory odopted by the Hebrews from the Persians.
Moses was a reformer of beliefs and practices that the descendants of Abraham and those they adopted along the way already had. Persia or Mesopotamia would be the origin o these ancient ideas. They were common in most religions.
Recently I was reading Sam Harris' book titled, "Waking Up", and was forced to reconsider a doctrine I have always taken for granted: that of the soul.
One section of the book deals with "consciousness divided". He described an experiment with a young man who underwent a corpus callosctomy procedure. The question, "What would you like to be when you grow up?" was directed to each hemisphere separately. The left hemisphere answered "a draftsman" while the right signaled that he wanted to be a race car driver. Two centers of volition existed within the one. Really, we aren't even sure if there's only two.
Harris then posed the question, "What if one hemisphere seemingly accepted the divinity of Jesus while the other seemingly did not?" How could that affect one "soul"? I am presupposing the soul is traditionally equated with consciousness. Otherwise, if it were independent of consciousness, how could we even know we had it? How does the scenario of two apparent personhoods in one body reconcile with the idea of one soul? I say two personhoods because could we really take one as "more true" than the other? If one wished the other be surgically removed, would it not bring into question the validity of the other's will?
Any help with this would be appreciated. I'm sure many here are more learned in this subject than I am. Thanks!
Recently I was reading Sam Harris' book titled, "Waking Up", and was forced to reconsider a doctrine I have always taken for granted: that of the soul.
One section of the book deals with "consciousness divided". He described an experiment with a young man who underwent a corpus callosctomy procedure. The question, "What would you like to be when you grow up?" was directed to each hemisphere separately. The left hemisphere answered "a draftsman" while the right signaled that he wanted to be a race car driver. Two centers of volition existed within the one. Really, we aren't even sure if there's only two.
Harris then posed the question, "What if one hemisphere seemingly accepted the divinity of Jesus while the other seemingly did not?" How could that affect one "soul"? I am presupposing the soul is traditionally equated with consciousness. Otherwise, if it were independent of consciousness, how could we even know we had it? How does the scenario of two apparent personhoods in one body reconcile with the idea of one soul? I say two personhoods because could we really take one as "more true" than the other? If one wished the other be surgically removed, would it not bring into question the validity of the other's will?
Any help with this would be appreciated. I'm sure many here are more learned in this subject than I am. Thanks!
That's a meaning it had in English when I were a lad - people would say things like, "He's a gentle soul", meaning person. Not much used that way now....The word "soul" in the Hebrew is defined as a person, living being, individual, self, or creature.
Is that 'substance' in the philosophical sense? in which case, what kind of substance is spirit, mental?...In other words the substance of the soul is spirit.
Soul = Adamic mind, will, emotions after disobedience. The Spiritual connection to God vanished. The soulish nature thus acquired is the sinful nature. It will hang around until the demise of the individual. See John 14:6, John 3:16-17, John 3:3, John 5:24, Romans 10:8-13, Ephesians 2:8-9 for the "change" and what happens to some of us.
FrumiousBandersnatch said:Which are processes of the body & brain - and cease when the body dies?
If not, what?
I view the soul as the very essence of my being, and while I would like to think it possesses my will (not necessarily emotions or memories though), it would probably make more sense to think maybe it's some kind of driving force that makes humanity what it is.
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