Allen,
I seem to remember one of my philosophy professors mentioning that "the body
is an expression of the soul." That would seem to fit with your reading of
the Bible that the soul eats, gets hungry etc.
When God takes the soul to heaven, the soul has no further need for the
earthly body.
Chuck Vandergraaf
> ----------
> From: Allen Roy[SMTP:allenroy@peoplepc.com]
> Sent: Monday October 16, 2000 9:41 PM
> To: asanet
> Subject: Re: TE-man
>
> It seems to me that we need to define or discover how the Bible defines a
> soul. There are only two verses in the Bible which define the soul --
>
> Genesis 2:7 And the lord God formed man from the dust of the ground and
> breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living
> being
> [soul]. NIV
>
> 1 Co 15:45 So it is written: "The first man Adam became a living being
> [soul]"; the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. NIV
>
> This gives a very simple (for God :) formula to make a soul:
>
> A. Form a body.
> B. Infuse the body with life (Breath of life)
> C. Result: A living being (soul)
>
> Any other definition of the soul is not Biblical. Including the ever
> popular, erroneous, idea that God put a soul into a living being: i.e.
> that
> the soul is something separate from the person. It is life that was put
> into the body, not a soul into a body.
>
> Throughout the Bible we find that the soul eats, gets hungry, is happy,
> angry, gets tired, sleeps, dies, etc.
>
> This is where you must start, a Biblical definition of the soul. You can
> invent anything else you want, but it won't be Biblical and is totally
> irrelevant to the Bible.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Bjoern Moeller" <dj_mic20@yahoo.com>
> > These days I read my way through some good books all
> > written by authors holding a TE viewpoint. I certainly
> > enjoy the reading, but there is one issue I just can't
> > find in these books, and that is the spirited/souled
> > man as made in God's image (God breathed his spirit
> > into the nostrils of man etc.). It is perfectly fine
> > with me that man is a product of an evolving nature,
> > but how do TE's account for man being a creature with
> > a soul/spirit? I mean, how did the soul of man evolve?
> > Can biological evolution explain that? And, if not,
> > who can?
>
>
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