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by edndori on March 4th, 2009

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Is God a false prophet because he told Adam and Eve that if the ate the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil "In the day thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die."
But after eating it they lived nearly a thousand years!

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  • by Moosemose on March 5th, 2009

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    edndori, for Ur Answer, the Doctrine of the Soul. Enjoy!!! John

    DOCTRINE OF THE SOUL

    A. The Essence of the Soul.
    1. Self-consciousness. Man is aware of his own existence and is able
    to relate to both animate and inanimate life on earth, Acts 20:10. Animals
    have consciousness, but not self-consciousness.
    2. Mentality. Self-consciousness is no good without mentality. This
    is the thinking part of man and is composed of two parts.
    a. The mind or left lobe of the soul.
    b. The heart or right lobe of the soul contains the frame of
    reference, memory center, vocabulary and categorical storage, norms and
    standards, and launching pad for application of knowledge to life.
    c. Rom 1:20-22 and Prov 19:2 teach that all thought originates in
    these two lobes. The soul is the source of all basic sin. It is the
    battleground between the old sin nature and the Holy Spirit, Mt 10:28; Eph
    4:17-19; Ps 143.
    3. Volition. Man has the ability to be negative or positive to
    anything in life. This is why man was created to resolve the angelic
    conflict.
    4. Emotion, Lk 12:19. This is the appreciator of the soul. Emotion
    responds or reacts to whatever thoughts are in the soul. Normally the
    emotion is dominated by the right lobe of the soul.
    5. Conscience. This is the evaluator of the soul. It contains the
    norms and standards, Acts 24:16.
    6. The old sin nature is not part of the soul. It is genetically
    formed in every cell of the body. It battles for control of the soul
    through sin, human good and evil. Because we have an old sin nature, we are
    said to be totally depraved. Without Bible doctrine in the soul, you tend
    to run loose with your old sin nature's area of strength and link this
    activity with pride. Therefore you use your mentality to say you are
    something you are not. You set up your system of standards and compare
    yourself to others to further your pride.

    B. The soul must be distinguished from the human spirit.
    1. Originally man was trichotomous, having a body, soul, and spirit,
    Gen 2:7.
    2. After the fall, man is born dichotomous, having only a body and
    soul, 1 Cor 2:14; Jude 19.
    3. The believer, however, is said to have a body, soul, and spirit,
    1 Thes 5:23. The human spirit is regenerated by God the Holy Spirit at
    salvation.

    C. Only the soul, not the body, is saved at the point of regeneration, Ps
    19:7, 34:22; Mk 8:36-37; 1 Pet 1:9; Heb 10:39.
    1. Therefore, there is no "healing in the atonement." The body is not
    saved because the old sin nature resides there. In eternity the soul is
    given a perfect body minus an old sin nature or any human good.
    2. To have a soul, a human spirit, and a resurrection body is strictly
    a matter of grace.
    3. Those in eternity who glorify God will be those who had maximum
    Bible doctrine in the soul during time.

    D. Only the soul, not the body, was made in the image of God, Gen 1:26-27
    cf Gen 2:7. God is not material but spiritual.

    E. The soul is the area of the worse sins which are mental attitude sins,
    Job 21:25; Zech 11:8.
    1. The content of the soul is seen when a person speaks. What you
    truly are is only revealed when you speak.
    2. Sins of the tongue reveal mental attitude sins. If you are guilty,
    arrogant, bitter, or full of revenge, you will talk a certain way that
    reveals the content of your soul.
    3. Therefore, the soul sponsors all overt sins and sins of the tongue.

    F. The soul becomes the seat of misery because of scar tissue of the soul,
    Ps 6:3, 106:15; 119:25, 28, 81.

    G. The soul is the area for all capacities, good or bad.
    Inside the divine dynasphere, the mature believer has maximum capacity
    for life, love and happiness. Inside the cosmic system, the reversionist
    has maximum capacity for sin, human good, evil, and self-induced misery,
    1 Sam 18:1; 1 Pet 1:22.

    H. In physical death, the soul departs from the body, Job 27:8; Ps 16:10;
    2 Cor 5:8.

    Comments

    • Gen 2:7 says God created the body, then added the breath of life, which I take to mean the Spirit, and man BECAME a living soul; that soul being composed of Body and Spirit.
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      There are many places in scripture that use Soul as an synonym for spirit. I know of none that make them separate and independent things.
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      Did you build the rest of that stuff from that misconception yourself or did you get it from someone else?

      edndori

      by edndori on March 7th, 2009

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