What Is the "Soul"? Are you a 3 - part immortal being? The Bible does not teach that....
This blog is posted to refute the common belief that man is a tri-parte being.
The Hebrew word for Soul applies to animals as well as humans.
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What is a soul?
Much misunderstanding about death is directly related to confusion concerning the "soul." What is a soul? Does it exist? If it exists, is it separate from the physical body? Does it live on after death?
The Hebrew word most often translated into English as "soul" or "creature" in the Bible is nephesh. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible succinctly defines this word as "a breathing creature." When used in the Bible, nephesh usually means a living, breathing creature. Occasionally it conveys a related meaning such as breath, life or person.
Surprising to many, nephesh refers to humans and animals. For example, notice the account of the creation of sea life: "And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good" (Genesis 1:21, King James Version). The Hebrew word translated "creature" in this verse is nephesh. In the biblical account, these "souls," creatures of the sea, were made before the first humans were formed and given life.
Nephesh and man
Let's see how this word is used to refer to mankind in the Scriptures. The first place we find nephesh referring to mankind is in the second chapter of Genesis: "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul" (Genesis 2:7).
The word translated "soul" in this verse is again the Hebrew word nephesh. Other translations of the Bible state that man became a living "being" or "person." This verse does not say that Adam had an immortal soul; rather it says that God breathed into Adam the "breath of life," and Adam became a living soul. At the end of his days, when the breath of life left Adam, he died and returned to dust. In death his life and consciousness simultaneously ceased.
The soul (nephesh) is not immortal, because it dies. This is clear in the Bible. For example, the prophet Ezekiel quoted God: "Behold, all souls are Mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is Mine; the soul who sins shall die" (Ezekiel 18:4, see also verse 20). Again, the Hebrew word translated "soul" in this verse is nephesh. Ezekiel states that the soul can die. It is mortal-it is in no way immortal-because it is subject to death.
The Hebrew word for Soul applies to animals as well as humans.
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What is a soul?
Much misunderstanding about death is directly related to confusion concerning the "soul." What is a soul? Does it exist? If it exists, is it separate from the physical body? Does it live on after death?
The Hebrew word most often translated into English as "soul" or "creature" in the Bible is nephesh. Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible succinctly defines this word as "a breathing creature." When used in the Bible, nephesh usually means a living, breathing creature. Occasionally it conveys a related meaning such as breath, life or person.
Surprising to many, nephesh refers to humans and animals. For example, notice the account of the creation of sea life: "And God created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and God saw that it was good" (Genesis 1:21, King James Version). The Hebrew word translated "creature" in this verse is nephesh. In the biblical account, these "souls," creatures of the sea, were made before the first humans were formed and given life.
Nephesh and man
Let's see how this word is used to refer to mankind in the Scriptures. The first place we find nephesh referring to mankind is in the second chapter of Genesis: "And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul" (Genesis 2:7).
The word translated "soul" in this verse is again the Hebrew word nephesh. Other translations of the Bible state that man became a living "being" or "person." This verse does not say that Adam had an immortal soul; rather it says that God breathed into Adam the "breath of life," and Adam became a living soul. At the end of his days, when the breath of life left Adam, he died and returned to dust. In death his life and consciousness simultaneously ceased.
The soul (nephesh) is not immortal, because it dies. This is clear in the Bible. For example, the prophet Ezekiel quoted God: "Behold, all souls are Mine; the soul of the father as well as the soul of the son is Mine; the soul who sins shall die" (Ezekiel 18:4, see also verse 20). Again, the Hebrew word translated "soul" in this verse is nephesh. Ezekiel states that the soul can die. It is mortal-it is in no way immortal-because it is subject to death.
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