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To: dsc

ensoulment? Thats a fresh one to me.


49 posted on 08/29/2004 9:05:35 AM PDT by Stubborn (It is the Mass that matters)
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To: Stubborn

"ensoulment? Thats a fresh one to me."

Well, with every human conception, a new soul is created and God locates it in that preborn person, right?

In Genesis, God made man from dirt. Surely he didn't have a soul at that point. After God had him ready, He breathed a soul into him.

"If man evolved, it necessarily follows that somewhere in there, man did not have an immortal soul"

No, some halfway creature that God was molding into a receptacle for a soul didn't have one. So what?

"- which would mean that "our immortal souls evolved" - which is an obvious oxymoron."

No, it wouldn't mean that at all. It would just mean that until God got His receptacles ready, He didn't endow them with souls.


62 posted on 08/29/2004 9:42:08 AM PDT by dsc
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