What are souls? Are we ourselves souls, or is there another part that consist of the soul? Do they have any substance in this world, or only in the afterlife?
Can robots have souls?
Souls
Luke Cruz
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Michael Cooper
People have an immortal soul, a supernatural substance infused in our bodies while we are in our mother's wombs. Animals have a non-immortal soul.
As of now I don't think "robots" are anything more than animated matter obeying the laws of physics. Like an integrated circuit simulating an elaborate ELIZA program or advanced statistics.
This will probably remain true even as they get more advanced, unless God allows them to obtain a soul somehow. He probably won't because then you have humans with the ability to create things that have souls, putting then on par with God. [satan intensifies]
Cameron Jones
I was told it's a data collection device. Who knows though.
Christian Evans
See the definition of life in genesis 9:4
The life thereof is the blood. Why is the blood life? Because it contains the breath see genesis 6:17
genesis 2:7
Because it was breathed into the creature, it is a living soul.
Daniel James
What do you mean?
Jacob Green
The things pagans have.
Matthew Anderson
Read this newadvent.org
Julian Wood
Does no one ITT know the difference between pneuma and psyche, or ruach and nephesh?
Nicholas Cox
There was some discussion in previous threads about dichotomy vs trichotomy of man, several months ago.
To put it simply, nepesh is what is common for all living things, its equivalent in Latin is anima. It generally is translated as soul, though better translation would be "life force". Sometimes in days long past, world soul was used to describe being in general, instead of mere life force (hence the confusion of hafizposting cretin above that pollutes every single thread on this board and mods cant get rid of this vermin.)
As for ruach, its equivalent is spiritus, or spirit. It is the immortal part of man, and its attributes are intelligence, free will and so on. Dichotomy vs trichotomy was a bit confusing for me so I opened a thread several months ago. The best reply I've got, that man is dichotomical and the immortal spirit is part of soul. but division between the two is thin and only God alone can see it
>For the word of God is living and active, sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing to the division of soul and of spirit, of joints and of marrow, and discerning the thoughts and intentions of the heart.
Some others may answer it better perhaps
Lincoln Collins
Our body is like a TV set and our soul is the the TV signal. Consciousness is the act of the TV being on. Using mind altering drugs can let you view other "channels" on the the TV.
Can robots have souls? Maybe
Jayden James
That's what I was getting at. Many translations are inconsistent with what they have written as "soul" or "spirit" based on psyche and pneuma.
No. Man's spirit was bearhed into him by God, and it is patrilineal. Adams soul was breathed into him by God, eve's came from Adam, and all their descendant's spirit was passed along from Adam. Christ differed in that he was not born of Adam, having been conceived by the Holy Spirit, and so was not corrupted by original sin.
Joshua Murphy
*breathed.
Isaiah Fisher
What happens to our souls after we die? Jesus said it's immortal so does that mean we become a sentient meme?
Easton Ortiz
That's interesting. I've only ever seen Gnostics delineate between "Soul" and "Spirit". As a Christian, what's the difference between the Soul and the Spirit?
Asher Long
What part of this "we" are you referring to? Your big toe? Your mind?
So crippled by an inescapable fixation on the material realm
Really?
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Nicholas Lopez
curb your autism
Blake Stewart
Your soul is your form. It's the form of your body but isnt totally reached by It. It's what makes you you.
We (the human) are the frontier between espiritual and material.
James Moore
So what makes the soul immortal?
Jackson Rivera
A SOUL IS YOUR CONSCIOUS-BEING–PERSONA-MATRIX
Charles Anderson
GOD'S GRACE, ITS UP TO HIM
HE CAN SNUFF YOUR SOUL OUT IF HE WANTS, SOULS ARE NOT IMMORTAL BY NATURE ONLY IMMORTAL BY GRACE
Ayden Fisher
Nothing, it is not immortal it is able to be killed and destroyed for both animals/fish/flesh and humans see revelation 16:3
Well the soul has something to do with the animals ability to breath as all flesh has the breath of life and thereby a soul. But the spirit which is different then Spirit is neccessary to worship God see john 4:24
You also need a spirit because of 1 corinthians 2:14
And also since you can't spiritually discern to recieve the fruits of the Spirit in galatians 5:22 without having a spirit they in the flesh cannot please God see romans 8:7-8
This goes back to what Jesus says in john 3:5-6
Since the wages of sin are death romans 6:23 you need a spiritual body to please Jesus in order to save your soul. See hebrews 10:39
This all goes back to the having eyes to see and ears to hear thing because of 1 corinthians 15:44
The angels in heaven are similar to us that are christians, just being ministering spirits as we are to be ministering spirits to other Christians on the earth.
hebrews 1:13-14
TLDR; animals have souls revelation 16:3 and humans have souls genesis 2:8. But only humans as far as I am aware because of john 4:22 can have a spirit in order to worship/serve God in spirit and in truth.
This is actually a topic that really messes people up because they don't take all of this into account and then read 1 corinthians 15:38, romans chapters 9-11, and galatians 4:21-31. Also if you don't use only the KJV to look up these verses it will make no sense amongst other things.
Andrew Sanders
So… what part of us goes to the afterlife?
Gavin Perry
Did you not read any of the post after that one section? They that worship God must worship Him in spirit and in truth. Also see ecclesasties 12:7
Jeremiah Sanchez
The fact that our soul is made in the Image an likeness of the Eternal God
Kayden Williams
That's wrong too. Re-read genesis 1:27
And then genesis 5:1-2
And then genesis 1:28
The image of God is, first off, for Adam in the day they were created. Second off Adam in the day they were created were male and female and God told them to reproduce since they were still one flesh at that time since genesis 2:18 hadn't happened yet. Thirdly and finally read all of that again and then read matthew 19:4-6
Flesh is not the same as soul. And soul is not the same as spirit. Therefore read 1 corinthians 6:15-17
Lucas Price
Weren't you already told to piss off? Don't you have anything to do besides polluting this board?
Jaxon Sanders
Dropped.