Are we living souls?
I see the light!
Christians!
No matter what the subject under discussion it seems that Christians, at some point, will decide that there is a passage in the Bible that will create a situation of check mate and end any further discussion or argument.
I love it when several people are in the middle of a lengthy and convoluted discussion and one of them says “In Sebastian Chapter 12 Verse 21 it says . . . . . .” and then assumes that the discussion has been ended.
A recent discussion was about the existence of souls and whether they go on to some better place when we die.
Naturally there were lots of quotations from the Bible and from learned religious teachers. As the argument/discussion progressed over objections and road block quotations, I noticed that none of the Bible quoters actually quoted Genesis. When I tried to counter some of the quotations by quoting Genesis (I can quote as well as the next man!) I was told that Genesis was not really a true record and that the teaching of Jesus while He was on Earth was what we would have to rely on.
How very convenient!
If the word of God is supposed to reside within the covers of the Bible, it is made very clear that man does not have a soul, immortal or otherwise. God took the dust of the Earth and made man – a living soul, according to Genesis. There are many places in the Bible where it is made quite clear that there is no transition from Earth to Heaven when we die, indeed, there is plenty of reference to the fact that the dead cease to exist. They are said to return to the earth from which they came and lose all awareness having neither knowledge nor memories.
If we are, indeed, living souls, shouldn’t we be praying that the Kingdom of God comes PDQ to make sure we are able to enter with our awareness and memories intact?
Wouldn’t it be terrible to die the day before redemption opened its doors?
I can imagine my reaction as they lit the crematorium or nailed on the lid – “Dipped out again!!”