Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article

To: markomalley
This is very excellent. But...

It does raise a question for me. I can see how the "hand and glove" analogy relates to the soul as the "form" of the body. Therefore, since we are sexually differentiated for reproduction (a pervasive differentiation which involves not only "the plumbing" --- how I despise that term--- but also everything else, patterns of brain growth and bone formation, memory, imagination, understanding, larynx, lung, blood), thus Msgr. Pope says that souls are sexually differentiated: "I am not male simply because my body is male, my soul is also male."

But... unlike animals, humans have spiritual souls (human soul=-spirit) and spirits are not sexed. Jesus says that the soul is like an angel (=spirit), and spirits --- as I understand it ---- are neither male nor female.

So, which is it: are souls male and female, or are they not?

I wait attentively!

9 posted on 12/10/2013 9:05:57 AM PST by Mrs. Don-o ("See something, say something.")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies ]


To: Mrs. Don-o; markomalley
... humans have spiritual souls (human soul=-spirit) and spirits are not sexed ...

I'm having trouble with, "Humans have spiritual souls ...". "Man is a creature composed of body and soul, made to the image and likeness of God." Therefore, I do not "have" a soul; I am a body-and-soul.

To be more specific, I am a body-and-soul who is female. There is no "it" in me. There is only me, and me is a "she."

I don't know if that clarified or garblified. Using gender precisely is so difficult in English. Some languages have up to nine distinct classes of nouns/adjectives, while we thrash around with about 1-1/2.

10 posted on 12/10/2013 9:37:15 AM PST by Tax-chick (Well, that went badly.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 9 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
Religion
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson