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Nature, Nurture or Soul?

wellwisher

Well-Known Member
The soul is analogous to all our memories, which include recollections, habits, skills, POV, etc. If you were to have life after death, unless you retained your unique memories, you would never know about your past, or why you are there. However, if all your memories were preserved, there will be a sense of continuity between the two planes of existence. In the Old Testament people believed when you died you slept. One is not conscious when you sleep; day spirits are quiet, and there is no erasing of memory. When you awaken, in the morning your memory or soul is there to be animated by a spirit; Jesus.

The soul is like the hard drive of a computer or cell phone. The soul of your phone, within the hard drive of that device, can be transfer to a new phone. You can preserve all your setting from the past, going forward. If our soul and memories are preserved you can recognize people who died before you, and reestablish old acquaintances, and add new memories to your soul.

It makes no sense to wake up in heaven or hell with total amnesia; lost soul. If you appear without all that data, you would not know why you ended up, where you ended up. God would not put babies in hell, so you would awaken as an adult, all alone with no history. But if you retain your soul and memories, you will know why you are there, to accept the reward or atone for the sins, and you also you will know your favorite relatives who died they will remember you and you them.

The hard drive does not do anything, unless the processor; CPU, which are connected to the spirits, act upon the hard drive. When you transfer settings to a new phone, the spirit of the new phone; operating system and CPU, like an external spirit, triggers the old phones hard drive and transfer the data over the air waves. In classic symbolism, this will be St Peter and Jesus transferring your memories; soul, to the new vessel that your soul will occupy, which, like the newest model cell phone, will have many new bells and whistles. It may take some time to get used to the new features. But you have eternity to even upgrade, periodically.

Note: The 2nd says that the entropy of the universe has to increase, while an increase in entropy absorbs energy. What this means is the universe is bleeding energy into the ever increasing entropy. And, for the entropy to continue to increase, that means net energy is lost to the universe. However, due to energy conservation, it is conserved, but a form that is not fully available to the universe. It is like in another realm, that is getting more and more energy, faster than the universe can take some back; the entropy energy pool is filling.

The brain and life are intimately connected to the 2nd law and entropy, which is a movement toward complexity. We each add to the universal entropy pool, by living and thinking and using our memory. On earth, we have the Cloud that back up your cell phone data. The entropy pool appears to be a universal cloud for souls, that collect living data, as the 2nd law increases entropy. It is very possible the divine soul is more like a copy of the brain's original. The original may not go forward. Rather, the copy is transferred to the new vessel.
 

Lisa Sims

Not BORN AGAIN Yet, But I'm On My WAY!
What do you mean by "soul"?
Thank you, Martin.

The soul is the man, created by God in the image of God. There is no Divinity in the soul, unless and until, after its one and only incarnation into the fetus of human parents, it seeks the Divine Love of God, either in this world or the next, which will then begin to flow into it replacing its human nature with the Divine Nature as Jesus did and taught, and as the first humans (souls incarnated into animal fetuses, but "beautiful") refused.

The incarnation gives the soul its spirit body and it's carnal body. It survives physical death in its spirit body.

What the soul is and what it is not
"...First, I will say, that the human soul is a creature of God and not an emanation from Him, or a part of His Soul, and when men speak and teach that the human soul is a part of the Over-Soul, they teach what is not true. This soul is merely a creation of the Father, just as are the other parts of man, such as the intellect and the spirit body and the material body, and which before its creation had no existence. It has not existed from the beginning of eternity, if you can imagine that eternity ever had a beginning. I mean that there was a time when the human soul had no existence; and whether there will ever come a time when any human soul will cease to have an existence, I do not know, nor does any spirit, only God knows that fact. But this I do know, that whenever the human soul partakes of the Essence of the Father, and thereby becomes Divine itself, and the possessor of His Substance of Love, that soul realizes to a certainty that it is Immortal, and can never again become less than Immortal. As God is Immortal, the soul that has been transformed into the Substance of the Father becomes Immortal...

As I said, there was a period in eternity when the human soul did not exist and was created by the Father, and when it was made the highest and most perfect of all God’s creation, to such an extent that it was made in His image - the only one or thing of all His creations that was made in His image, and the only part of man that was made in His image, for the soul is the man and all his attributes and qualities, such as his intellect and spirit body and material body and appetites and passions, are merely appendages or means of manifestation given to that soul, to be its companions while passing through its existence on earth, and also, qualifiedly, while living in eternity. I mean some of the appendages will accompany the soul in its existence in the spirit world, whether that existence be for all eternity or not..." Jesus,
3/2/1917, new-birth.net

Blessings...
Lisa
 

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Lisa Sims

Not BORN AGAIN Yet, But I'm On My WAY!
Well, some people seem to have some hereditary predispositions for soul. Aretha Franklin, for instance.
Hi Viole,

There is an interesting Disney animated movie called "SOUL" which encompasses both the musical genre and the pre-existing "entity."

Blessings,
Lisa
 
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