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Originally Posted by bible_reader
I think the spirit is the breath and belongs to God.When a person dies the spirit goes back to God,the soul is the one that goes to either heaven or hell depending on the person's actions while he or she lived .Now the soul holds the part that has memory,emotions and feeling.
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Biologically we understand how memory is stored in the human brain, how glandular cells are stimulated to secret hormones, and how these hormones in turn affect the feeling in human beings depending on the circumstances.
Attributing physical body reactions to spiritual existence with no biblical barking is heretic. I would like some questions to be answered:
1. Is multiple punishment concept a doctrine? That is a sinner is punished more than once, the first sound before judgment?
2. Is death by definition not death but a relocation to another life form? Soul life (or spirit for that matter).
3. Why did Paul say that our hope is ONLY in the resurrection of Jesus, which if is a heresy then our faith is doomed yet our souls at death already is with Him in paradise?
4. If a sinner who is already dead can admit his guilt to a righteous dead man, then what is the point of this hope in the second coming for the purpose of punishing even the dead sinners (they will be resurrected again) yet all could simply die and meet in wherever souls meet to see their past deeds?
5. Those that Jesus resurrected as miracles (e.g. Lazarus), were they already in paradise enjoying? If yes so Jesus decided to bring them back to this tormenting life?
6. Were all the verses (In Psalms, Job, Ezekiel, Ecclesiastes, John, Acts etc) that speak of dead souls, or no life immediately after death not inspired by Holy Ghost?
7. Is there no better understanding of the rich man vs Lazarus parable consistent with teachings that death is a mere sleep? Taking note on why the parable was said, the 'mind talk' of the audience, and the ending of the parable speaks something deeper.