SOUL -- The Greek word for soul is translated as life. The best example of this usage are those passages in the New Testament.

For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake will find it. What, then, will a man gain if he wins the whole world and ruins his life? Or what has a man to offer in exchange for his life? - Matt. 16:25-26 -

For anyone who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my sake, and for the sake of my gospel, will save it. What gain, then, is it for man to win the whole world and ruin his life? And indeed what can a man offer in exchange for his life? For if anyone in this adulterous and sinful generation is ashamed of me and my words, the Son of Man will also be ashamed of him when he comes in glory of his Father with the holy angels. - Mark 8:35-38 - Luke 9:23-26 -

Anyone who loves his life loses it;
anyone who hates his life in this world
will keep it for the eternal life. - John 12:25 -

This idea is also present in the Old Testament. For example, the soul of a dying person departed at death. - Gen. 35:18 -

The prophet Elijah brought a child back to life by stretching himself upon the child three times and praying that God would let the child's soul come back into him. - 1King 17:19-24 -
This means more than being given physical life; the Sacred Scripture declares that man became a "living soul" or a person, a human being, one distinct from all other animals.

The soul is described as the seat of many emotions and desires: the desire for food. - Deut. 12:20-21 - love - Song 1:7 longing for God - Psalms 63:1 - rejoicing - Psalms 86:4 - knowing - Psalms 139:14 - memory - Lam. 3:20 -

In the New Testament, Jesus spoke of his soul as being 'exceedingly sorrowful,'
My soul is sorrowful to the point of death. - Matt. 26:38 - John 12:27 -

Mary, the mother of Jesus, proclaimed that her soul 'magnifies the Lord.' - Luke 1:46 -

John prayed that Gaius would 'prosper in all things and be in good health and spiritually and as your soul prospers. - 3John 2-3 -

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Sunday, May 24, 2009

I have through years of reading, pondering, reflecting and contemplating, the 3 things that last; FAITH . HOPE . LOVE and I would like to made available my sharing from the many thinkers, authors, scholars and theologians whose ideas and thoughts I have borrowed. God be with them always. Amen!

I STILL HAVE MANY THINGS TO SAY TO YOU BUT THEY WOULD BE TOO MUCH FOR YOU NOW. BUT WHEN THE SPIRIT OF TRUTH COMES, HE WILL LEAD YOU TO THE COMPLETE TRUTH, SINCE HE WILL NOT BE SPEAKING AS FROM HIMSELF, BUT WILL SAY ONLY WHAT HE HAS LEARNT; AND HE WILL TELL YOU OF THE THINGS TO COME.

HE WILL GLORIFY ME, SINCE ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. EVERYTHING THE FATHER HAS IS MINE; THAT IS WHY I SAID: ALL HE TELLS YOU WILL BE TAKEN FROM WHAT IS MINE. - JOHN 16:12-15 -