(August 16, 2014 at 4:10 am)Michael Wrote: Baqal, I think you most have missed my opening paragraph, because you too seem to pursuing, and dismissing, an Aristotelean view of the soul, from which I distanced myself in the opening paragraph of my post ...
Firstly, the OP seems to adopt an Aristotelean model of soul, that a soul is something we have. I would say the biblical meaning is much more that we 'are' souls; that 'soul' describes the essence of our identity.
This appears to be just meaningless pretty words.
You can fix ignorance, you can't fix stupid.
Tinkety Tonk and down with the Nazis.