Does it exist?if it exists,is it separate from the physical body?Does is live on after dead?

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Hi David :) These are really good questions...maybe the short answer is that a soul is made when the spirit is present in the flesh body, and the spirit is what continues after the flesh has died, then at the resurrection the body is raised, incorruptible, for eternal life. 


"We are confident, [I say], and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord." - Cr 5:8

“What is a soul? Does it exist?” This is a good question because it makes us consider the concrete (noun) and the abstract (adjective)... A concrete soul being the result of YHWH breathing “the breath of life” into the flesh housings of His creations which have blood. The result of this constitutes “a living soul”.

“And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Gen. 2:7  “For the life of the flesh is in the blood:” Lev. 17:11

Interesting thing about “a living soul”… a being with a body and a conscious mind, but without “the breath of life” from our Creator, would not result in “a living soul”. These beings would technically be “soulless” unless YHWH chose to breathe his spirit of life into them...

I find this interesting in light of chimeras and devas and other lab-created beings who were not created by our Creator and perhaps do not have his “breath of life” because He did not sanction their creation... so, they would be abominations.. oh yeah, and “zombies” for example lol and Frankenstein's monster, etc.... But seriously, these things, without His breath of life, cannot constitute “living” souls, despite the fact that they are bodies with spirits, because the spirit animating them is not the Creator's breath of life... i'm not saying He can't make these other creatures living souls.. just that chances are, soulless creatures, in terms of "the walking dead" - living creatures, whose lives were not brought about by YHWH, are possible.

Many famous people have admitted selling their souls to the devil in exchange for their fame… I think this quite literally means they sold the lives here on earth to him, since our allegiance in this physical life determines our allegiance in the eternal life.

Then there’s the abstract “soul”... which exists only as the description of the traits of the concrete, “living soul”... like “soul music” or “soul food” as an adjective to describe nouns which demonstrate expressiveness or passion, or in other words, life.  “If it exists, is it separate from the physical body?” Since a living soul is the result of the breath of life in the flesh body, rather than a separate thing on its own, such as a spirit, it can't really exist 'out there on its own'.. but the person's spirit can.

Prodigal Son commented a while back that, “The words which are translated as soul are always used to apply to creatures who have a flesh body animated by a spirit. The spirit + body = soul. In this way, it is surely a necessary truth that the soul can not last eternally.

Cyprium commented a while back that, “Eternal life means having that soul made incorruptible in resurrection through the redemption of Yahushua's blood.”

Evil spirits roam this physical dimension in search of human souls to destroy... lives to destroy.. "But those that seek my soul, to destroy it, shall go into the lower parts of the earth" Psa. 63:9 "And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him which is able to destroy both soul and body in hell." Mat. 10:28  This is that second death.. after the resurrection, where judgement is passed and some are resurrected to eternal life and others to eternal death.


So there is a lot of hope for all those who have died, who are no longer living souls, but whose spirits have departed to the Father, and who will be resurrected incorruptible through Messiah, in whom their souls trusted in their earthly lives, just as Messiah himself died and resurrected, in His glorified, incorruptible body.

God created great whales and every living creature that moveth,which the waters brought forth abundantly,after their kind ,and every winged fowl after his kind and God saw that it was good{Genesis 1:21,king King James version}.


Ecc 12:7

I have been reading here of late and this question was one that I too asked when I first began to be interested in the Word about 17 years ago. I asked many people who were teachers, but never got an answer that satisfied me.  What made us different from the animals?  Spirits and souls.  The verse Bean gives us is a good one.  The word used for God in the verse is this word:


so which father are we returning to??  Father or father??

For me the understanding of the soul came about by my joining this site and the interactions, studies and revelations that came to me during my time and activity here. For which I am eternally grateful.   I was seeking understanding of the spiritual realms, and specifically their influences in my own life.  That led me to study the book of Enoch and for the first time, things gelled in my mind about spirits and souls and why we exist as we are on the earth today.  Our condition as it were.

  From the Book of Enoch you find these words


What I have come to believe is that eternal beings, the Watchers, mated with finite beings, the daughters of men and created something that had not been before, a man with an eternal life inside them that continued after the death of the body, in other words, the soul.

I also believe that the man that Father created in Chap. 2 was not the same kind of man Father created in Chap, 1:




So two kinds of souls existed after that time, living souls, and dead or headed for death, souls.  

Later in the book of Enoch we see that Father created spiritual holding places for these souls to go after the death of the body and in fact include the number of years they could live in the flesh.  


I do see things differently from the leaders on the site, they may have other understanding and I do not discount theirs as false.  This is just how I have come to see the issue of the soul and our status  as eternal beings.  We can have a soul that is headed for death or a soul that has eternal life while both still are souls that exist.  Without the covering of Yahushua we are souls that are headed for death at the end of this time set for us , this time of the curse to work its way through the tenants set forth by Yahuah at the time of the flood.  In my understanding it was all because of the fallen ones taking the women and making these eternal souls and creating a problem that needed to be rectified by Father Yah.

I pray this helps you grasp even more understanding David and that Father blesses you with answers to all your questions.

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