fiatlux wrote:
When in the Main, these topics were hot and heavy. Too heavy, atheists and some Christians alike thought. Get it out of politics into its own world. Something I thought would really flourish. What seems to have happened? Total dud. It has to be a total dud if my name predominates all last comments. Heck, most Christians appear to see me as the dreaded infidel. Where is this voice? Was so looking forward to some great debates.
Sometimes a "last comment" seems to b one comment beyond reasonable to a discussion; you know it when someone thinks the last one to comment has somehow won a point or a discussion.
I am not saying this applies to your response, only that it speaks to the value of many "last comments."
I have abandoned many discussions when I have had my opportunity to state my position, and find no response that deals with issues raised by my post. It is then that I simply move on to other themes.
You have referenced in your title "Do you guys have a soul?" I would respond, for what it is worth, "I do not "have" a soul, I am a soul. God formed Adam of the dust of the earth, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life and "Adam became a living Soul."
A "Soul" is scripturally equivalent to a living person; "eight persons went into the ark; "eight souls were saved by water."
"... all the
souls of the house of Jacob,
which came into Egypt, were
threescore and ten."[Gen 46:27]
"Thy fathers went down into Egypt with
threescore and ten persons; and now the LORD thy God hath made thee as the stars of heaven for multitude."[Deut 10:22]
When a person makes a statement such as "My soul" does this, or "My soul" does that, they are simply asserting that they do something or other with their whole being. Nothing
"half-hearted" or lackadaisically; intensely!
One of the most memorable such remarks is Mary who said "My soul doeth magnify the Lord."[Luke 1:46]
A "soul" is a body of flesh with an intact spirit. When the body dies, the flesh returns to dust whence it came, and the spirit return to God who gave it. Upon resurrection, the spirit returns to the body, and the resurrected man becomes an immortal soul.