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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