So is eating meat, drinking wine, and kissing one's children. Point?
If you ask me to pray for you, is it my body that does it or my soul? Does my soul die when my body dies? If you think I have an everlasting soul and its my soul that does the praying, isn't it then consistent to treat all souls alike, whether or not the body is dead?
That's all part of your worship of God?
“So is eating meat, drinking wine, and kissing one’s children. Point?”
That is a frivolous response.
“If you ask me to pray for you, is it my body that does it or my soul? Does my soul die when my body dies? If you think I have an everlasting soul and its my soul that does the praying, isn’t it then consistent to treat all souls alike, whether or not the body is dead?”
I believe this is a serious response and presents an interesting argument.
If valid it would cover praying for deceased people, but not to them.
So is eating meat, drinking wine, and kissing one’s children. Point?
Did God command us to abstain from meat, wine or kissing our children?
Some Pagans traditionally cut themselves as an act of mourning. Will you copy this as well?
If you ask me to pray for you, how does my soul get the message? Does it not go through my body?
Since when do humans have the ability to have direct soul to soul contact?
My communication with any other person on this planet is through the five senses of my body.
Not one person on this planet has the ability to communicate with another human being without going through that means.
We communicate with God, who is spirit, through our spirit, not because of our ability to communicate with another's soul or spirit but because of His.