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To: ScubieNuc

Thanks for posting.

IMO the (remarkably few) scriptural texts supporting the immortality of the soul require a strained reading, while the far more numerous texts supporting the idea that the human soul is merely the live human being which returns to nothingness at death do not.

Occam’s Razor therefore indicates that the writers of the Bible did not believe in the Greek/Persian idea of inherent immortality.


3 posted on 04/29/2009 12:57:00 PM PDT by Sherman Logan (Everyone has a right to his own opinion, but not to his own facts.)
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To: Sherman Logan

How do you explain the parable of Lazarus in Abraham’s arms while the rich man suffers in hell from Luke 16?


5 posted on 04/29/2009 1:02:41 PM PDT by pgkdan ( I miss Ronald Reagan!)
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To: Sherman Logan

As I understand it, soul and spirit are not the same thing. The soul resides in the blood, and “sleeps” with the body at death. The soul is the specific memories, behaviors and personality traits that are unique to a given person. The spirit goes to the presence of God at death.

At resurrection, we are judged body and soul, as the two are inseperable. Those unworthy of eternal life in the eyes of God experience the second death. Afterwards, death itself is thrown into the lake of fire and annihilated.

The popular conception of Hell is a mishmash of Sheol, Gehenna and Tartarus/Tartaroo. The Bible states that the flames of eternal torment are for those rebellious angels and evil spirits that were bound in the deepest depths of Sheol.

I’m not going to go out on a limb and say that there is no punishment other than annihilation after death for sinners, however.


10 posted on 04/29/2009 1:12:19 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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