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To: edwinland

‘You are a soul; you have a body.’


15 posted on 02/09/2021 5:30:28 PM PST by Marchmain (i vote pro-life)
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To: Marchmain
‘You are a soul; you have a body.’

Although some people mistakenly attribute the quote above to C.S. Lewis's book Mere Christianity, Lewis never wrote that. If you are a Christian, I would caution you that the belief you just expressed is very close to the dangerous heresy of Manichaeism. This was the heresy that St. Augustine took many years to break free of. As Christians who profess the Nicene Creed, we believe that God gives us both a body and a soul and that both, while tarnished by sin, are good and that we will be returned to our earthly body at the end of time.

19 posted on 02/09/2021 10:13:46 PM PST by Ronaldus Magnus
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To: Marchmain
‘You are a soul; you have a body.’

Can the soul die?

27 posted on 02/10/2021 9:11:01 AM PST by edwinland
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