Excellent! I would tend to agree with that from Lewis.
More multiple choice theology with a liberal answer key that says all the answers are correct if you believe them to be.
>You don’t have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. — C.S. Lewis
I like that quote, and agree with it. Besides that, if there was no ‘immortal soul’, as it were, what then did Paul mean when he talked about seeing Him [Jesus] being like Him it the Resurrection?
Also, given the above, why is it that some people believe that resurrected beings are ‘ghost-like’ when Jesus plainly says to Thomas “Stick your hands in my holes” (hands and side) as well as ate with the disciples? A spirit/ghost cannot do those things, indicating that the resurrection is indeed physical as well.
Therefore, I believe that the soul and the body will both be resurrected. Whether or not the soul is ‘immortal’ is immaterial at this point because in order to resurrect people long-dead He would have to [re-]create bodies for them; and how hard would it be for God to [re-]create a soul if it had ‘died’? If it hadn’t, then how hard would it be for God to give this soul a new body?
In all, a moot point in the face of an All-powerful God.
1st Thessalonians 5:23 And the very God of peace sanctify you wholly; and I pray God your whole spirit and soul and body be preserved blameless unto the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Hebrews 4:12 For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
According to the Word there is a difference between the spirit and soul.
Yes I am. And I belong to Him, the Creator of everything.
Eze 18:4
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Darn! you beat me to it.