What is a Soul?
A person is a soul. You are a soul, an individual and unique being, who belongs to God.
Mind, body, and soul.
The breath of life is the spirit of life that God breathes into a soul to make it alive.
Adam became a living soul when God breathed the breath of life into him. Animals are also souls.
All souls belong to God.
Study 14: The Soul
Genesis 2:7
God breathed the breath of life into Adam and he became a living soul. Adam was an individual being.
Ecclesiastes 12:7
When a person dies, their breath of life and their soul return to God, and the body which God made of dust, returns to the Earth.
Job 27:1-6
Job knew that God put the breath in him. Job was an individual being.
Psalm 139:13-14
God made each soul wonderfully. The writer of this psalm knew it very well.
Matthew 22:36-40
The greatest commandment is to serve God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength.
Ezekiel 37:1-14
Individual souls will be resurrected, and God will put the breath of life back into them.
Ezekiel 18:4, 20
All souls belong to God. Souls who serve God will live. Souls who sin will die.
Matthew 10:28
Only God can kill the soul because He created everything.
1 Thessalonians 5:23
May God keep your spirit and soul and body complete at the coming of Jesus Christ.
Additional references for further study:
- Mark 8:36-37
- Revelation 6:9-10
- Psalm 42:1
- Isaiah 53:10-12
- James 5:20
- 1 Peter 2:11
- Epistle of Diognetus chapter 6 in the Apocrypha
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