Bel, I don't know the numbers either.
Me personally I'm generally a substance dualist. The spirit (pneuma) is the part of us that speaks with God, separate from the "ruah" or inner strength of a person, and the Holy Spirit which speaks back to us with God's voice.
Jewish culture really didn't ascribe to a separate soul from the body. it's was all a body embodied with God's breath
If we're going into a deep discussion on it, I'll have to reread some of my Gregory of Nyssa .
Me personally I'm generally a substance dualist. The spirit (pneuma) is the part of us that speaks with God, separate from the "ruah" or inner strength of a person, and the Holy Spirit which speaks back to us with God's voice.
Jewish culture really didn't ascribe to a separate soul from the body. it's was all a body embodied with God's breath
If we're going into a deep discussion on it, I'll have to reread some of my Gregory of Nyssa .
"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
always working on cleaning my windows- me regarding Johari
