Comment by Forrest Curo on 11th mo. 17, 2015 at 3:58pm

"Is not life more than food; and the body more than clothing?"

Yet we also like our food, and our clothing (especially warm clothing, at the moment. We are "flesh as well as spirit" (quoting a more secular source) -- and have been created in that form as well. Though admittedly we won't necessarily always be found here in that form -- There are people who think (rightly or wrongly) that that bodily self-image remains part of 'us', wherever our life will continue...

I too have had -- not 'near-death,' but times when "I" was one place, while my body (still present) was not in the same place. But this doesn't convince anyone who wants to imagine that 'experience happens in the brain alone'.

So the soul is something we know, but which many people deny because they think they mustn't accept any form of "evidence" except physical signs.

It's very solid, sometimes, when we've been alone awhile in a wild place and suddenly feel the glance of another person's eyes. "Subjective" people say. Yes. We are 'subjects', not objects -- and that's what 'being a soul' means, yes?

Comment by James C Schultz on 11th mo. 17, 2015 at 4:11pm

:)  The assumption that we are flesh is what I would like to challenge.  I think it is an error and more importantly I think it has stopped us from becoming more of what we can be.  I don't think Adam and Eve, or whoever you want to use in their place, looked like us originally.

Comment by Forrest Curo on 11th mo. 17, 2015 at 4:52pm

I'm saying we're 'at least' flesh, not 'merely' flesh. I agree that 'soul' is the primary feature; 'body' is merely part of the given packaging.

Yes, the soul is 'the life';

but I'm wanting to emphasize also that we're created as a package deal, God living within the different aspects of us, all of it sacred! [Quoting an old Chinese piece: "Is It in the dog poop?" -- "Yes! Also in the dog poop!" People discriminate between what suits us and what doesn't -- as we were meant to -- but it's all one harmonious creation/embodiment.]

Comment by Olivia on 11th mo. 17, 2015 at 8:39pm

Hello James! --  Thank you for sharing this.   Since you have had a near-death experience I definitely want to defer to that. 

Comment by James C Schultz on 11th mo. 19, 2015 at 2:20pm

Psa_51:10  Create in me a clean heart, O God; and renew a right spirit within me.  and again a little later:

Psa_51:17  The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise.

and one of my favorite scriptures:

Isa_26:3  Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

and Paul tells us of a transformed soul in

2Ti_1:7  For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

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