| ▲ | AStonesThrow 2 days ago | ||||||||||||||||||||||
> does not exist inside the body Uh okay but let us not be reductive, because again you are confusing physicality and temporal space with spiritual reality, which is nuanced. A Christian would never say that “the soul [never] exists inside the body” because what do you mean by “inside”? That begs the question. Look up hylomorphism: https://www.catholicculture.org/culture/library/dictionary/i... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hylomorphism While the soul, in death, can indeed exist apart from the body, even after the destruction of the physical human body, the soul is immortal, and lives on, in anticipation of its reuniting with that body. Whether in Heaven or Hell, the soul and body shall be reunited. Even if the body is “destroyed” by physical means, that is a subjective judgement by human senses, and that glorified body will be reconstituted by Almighty God for everlasting unity with the soul. > emergent property of the brain Unfortunately, even this scientific definition is reductive. It ignores the theology of the Soul as an animating principle of everything that is created. Animals have souls [thus their name derived from “anima”]; rocks and stones have souls; trees have souls rivers have souls: everything that we can detect in this world, and every invisible thing, possesses a soul. The difference with human souls regards their essence and immortality. But material souls are likewise considered souls in orthodox theology, and this should be considered by scientists. Even in an “eternal death” in Hell, the body and the soul will be reunited there for eternal torture, body and soul. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | bryanrasmussen 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
inside is a reference to a physical property, the brain is an organ that exists inside the body, we can discern which part of the body is brain and which is not, the soul evidently has never been so identified, although there have been conjectures throughout history that various body parts were the seat of the soul. | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | yieldcrv 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Lets fast forward this conversation to its conclusion of “its open to interpretation” and Christianity doesn't have a monopoly on religion or the fungible and unquantifiable soul concept | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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