5- SOUL
Has anyone seen or touched a soul? Has anyone felt their own soul? Humans are born, grow up, get old and die just like animals, how can we say that we have souls? Or if humans have souls, why don't animals have their souls?
But the wisdom of God's Word is beyond the reach of science, we are the lucky and blessed ones because we put our faith in Jesus Christ and rely on the Bible, which is extremely wise and can explain the puzzles of science:
Gen 1, Sections 26-27 about God's creation of man: God said: "Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the livestock, all the wild animals and all the creatures that crawl on the ground." God created man in his own image. God created man in the image of God, God created man male and female."
It is not by chance that the Bible repeats three times: "God created man in the image of God.": IMAGE of God is THE TRUTH, THE LIFE, man like God is SOUL, man is born from the HOLY BODY of God is the TRUTH, the LIFE.
On July 31, 1966, Jesus Himself revealed in the Message of Merciful Love, to Mrs. Margaret: "I have created your SOUL in My IMAGE." And on June 23, 1967: "I have created your SOULS in My IMAGE." Thus, Jesus has more than once affirmed the phrase LIKE THE IMAGE OF GOD in the book of Genesis is the SOUL. Jesus further revealed the union between body and soul on June 25, 1967: "The soul is much more important than the body, because it nourishes the body and makes the body flexible. The body can contribute to the life of the soul, then the soul certainly contributes even more to the life of the body to glorify God."
And the sentence "We made man in our image, in our likeness, SO that they might have dominion over the fish of the sea, the birds of the air, the cattle, the wild beasts, and all the earth and all the creatures that crawl on the ground": man is LIKE THE IMAGE OF GOD, is a man with a SOUL that is a thousand times wiser than animals, and can dominate all things.
The Book of Genesis also clearly talks about the soul in Genesis 2:7: "The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the BREATH OF LIFE, and the man became a LIVING BEING."
"The LORD God formed man from the dust of the ground" means God created our bodies from matter, and we have mistaken the word "Breath of life" as giving man the breath to live, which is physical life in this world. In fact, we have understood it literally, in the close sense, because no animal is breathed with life and yet they still breathe, live and reproduce, so the word "Breath" that the Bible wants to express is giving man a soul. Jesus himself taught us very clearly the meaning of the word "Breath" when He BREATHED into the disciples and said: "Receive the Holy Spirit..." That is exactly like the Bible describing God BREATHES into Adam's nostrils, but the first time God gave man immortal life, which is the SOUL, and this time the Son of God gave the HOLY SPIRIT, who restores and nourishes the soul.
So, "LORD is God who formed man from dust from the ground" means that God created the human body from material, whether it was through love between husband and wife, through promiscuity, or in a test tube... As long as it became a human being. And "Breath of life" is any creature that is called a human being, whether white, black, yellow, brown, red, blind, crippled, illegitimate, abandoned... All are BREATHED by God to create the IMAGE of God as an immortal SOUL to unite with that body.
We must also add the meaning of "God breathed": God does not breathe like us, but must understand that "BREATH" is the FLESH and BLOOD of God. Therefore, the Bible clearly states that: When our body was formed in the mother's womb, God BORN (breath of life) a SOUL like an angel in the spiritual world, with God's own IMMORTAL FLESH and BLOOD to be united with that body. Therefore, the soul of all people, whether good or evil, holy or sinful, are all BIOLOGICAL CHILDREN of God, all were born by God, so all people are BROTHERS and SISTERS with each other, so we have found the answer to the sentence Jesus said: "Do not call anyone on earth your father, for you have only one Father, the Father in heaven." And the soul is created from the IMMORTAL FLESH AND BLOOD of God, then the IMMORTAL SOUL, which needs to be nourished by the IMMORTAL FLESH AND BLOOD of God in order to grow, be healthy, bright, and holy.
Thus, the supremely wise Bible teaches very clearly: MAN HAS A SOUL and only man has a soul, because no animal is given breath, no animal is created in the image of God. Therefore, no animal we are allowed to believe has a soul.
As for science, there is no machine, no method or means to probe and determine whether there is a soul in each person. That is God's intention. He wants to set limits for science so that His law of BLESSING AND SIN can be implemented. But in incidents such as ghosts, the return of the dead, demonic manifestations, demonic possession... We must admit that: only when a person has a soul will this happen. For example, in the case of ghosts, demonic possession, each person has a soul, but if there is more than one soul in a body, then that phenomenon will occur.
And as discussed in "The Origin of the Universe" that the whole earth and the atmosphere are immersed in a super-material solvent a thousand times denser than all things, which scientists with the most modern machines have not yet discovered, and there is also that extremely precious thing which is TRUTH and Jesus prayed: "Father, sanctify them with TRUTH, Your Word is TRUTH." The first meaning of TRUTH is the Teachings of Jesus Christ, the second meaning of TRUTH is the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ, the Eucharist of God, and our souls are created with TRUTH so we must confirm that the soul is truly an existing spirit that science has not yet reached. We believe in the existence of a soul, but if we understand that the soul is weak and fragile, contained within the body,that is not correct, because look at the phenomenon of two twins, when someone raises their hand to hit one, sometimes both raise their hands to block, even though the other does not see the hit. In many cases, parents in their hometowns fall seriously ill, their children far away are restless and anxious, or in many cases, children in the battlefield are shot and their mothers at home feel sharp pain and stagger... That phenomenon can be scientifically explained as: As we see, people can use electricity, power sources to control rockets, spaceships, can see the outside world thousands of miles away, can talk to relatives across the ocean as if they were right next to them, so the soul must be understood as a LIVING ENTITY that is strong, sophisticated, and thousands of times more flexible than an electric source, is combined and attached to the body, but has a range of activity and radiates outside the body, covering and connecting with loved ones, so the good or bad thoughts, words, and deeds of parents always have a contagious influence on their children, as we have discussed about "Original Sin".
The soul is also understood as Jesus said: "The soul of the righteous will shine like the sun in the kingdom of their Father": It means that the soul of the righteous is nourished by God every second throughout their life until it becomes as bright and great as the sun in heaven, so we understand scientifically that: The soul shines like a light source from each person's body, so the soul of the husband and wife becomes one like the light of two lamps and covers the bond with the children like the light of lamps in a house, thus spreading both virtue and sin.
In short, the human body is extremely small in space and the life of the body is also extremely short in time, but let us thank God because from the moment we are born with the FLESH and BLOOD of God, the soul lives forever and those who are blessed to be nourished by the EUCHARIST of God every day can also grow tall and bright like the sun in the Kingdom of God, because of God's intention to fulfill His LAW OF BLESSINGS AND SIN, so God created our senses that cannot perceive the soul, just as no machine can touch the soul, no technology can probe the soul, but we believe that the Bible is the LIVING WORD, the TRUTH and the clear perceptions in daily life that we recognize the soul.
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