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   >>he below confusion of hebrew/greek word meaning and range of use reflects   
   >>the jw vatican not haveing any scholrs of those languages.  This leaves   
   >>vast wiggle room to pour jw vatican theories of scripture in to scripture   
   >>bits.  Behold, see that in action below:   
   Friend james struggles to respond below.  Fact, the word for "pirit" he   
   uses is only one among othrs with the same meaninging/use.  That word   
   aloneg   
   can have a range of meanings.   
      
   We return to the fact, the jw vatican has *no* scholars of biblical   
   languages which results in the confusion and misdirection taught to friend   
   james.  He must accept what the jw vatican says, if he shuld know something   
   they will tell him and also what they want him to understand.  Individual   
   thinking is not allowed.   
      
   Friend james is not at fault, he can only rotely plugin info he has been   
   spoon fed.  How does he know it is valid, the jw vatican told him so.   
      
   >Yes, see the truth in action below:   
   >   
   >These are all Bible truths. If you don't accept the Bible Scriptures   
   >as recorded, what is your hope? Or, if those you oppose quotes a   
   >scripture correctly, does that make it any less true?   
   >   
   >>   
   >>>Why not?   
   >>>   
   >>>--Churches' soul immortal.   
   >>>--Bible soul mortal:   
   >>>   
   >>>-- King James   
   >>>Ezekiel 18:4  Behold, all souls [nephesh] are mine; as the soul   
   >>>[nephesh] of the father, so also the soul [nephesh] of the son is   
   >>>mine: the soul [nephesh] that sinneth, it shall die.   
   >>>   
   >>>--Churches' soul only for humans.   
   >>>--Bible soul can also be non-humans:   
   >>>   
   >>>-- Darby's Bible   
   >>>--Genesis 1:20  And God said, Let the waters swarm with swarms of   
   >>>living souls, [nephesh] and let fowl fly above the earth in the   
   >>>expanse of the heavens.   
   >>>   
   >>>--Churches' soul survives death and goes to Heaven or Hell(fire)   
   >>>--Bible soul has multiple meanings, One of which means a whole   
   >>>physical person:   
   >>>-- American Standard   
   >>>Genesis 2:7  And Jehovah God formed man of the dust of the ground, and   
   >>>breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living   
   >>>soul.   
   >>>   
   >>>Notice these:   
   >>>   
   >>>"The soul in the O[ld] T[estament] means not a part of man, but the   
   >>>whole man-man as a living being."   
   >>>(The New Catholic Encyclopedia)   
   >>>   
   >>>"The Christian doctrine of the soul has been strongly influenced by   
   >>>the philosophies of Plato and Aristotle."   
   >>>(Funk and Wagnall's Encyclopedia)   
   >>>   
   >>>"the individual was believed to be a unit, not a composite of body,   
   >>>mind, and soul."   
   >>>(Compton's Encyclopedia)   
   >>>   
   >>>  A "soul" can eat meat (De 12:20), a soul has blood (Jer 2:34), a   
   >>>"soul" can physically touch things (Le 5:2), etc.   
   >>>   
   >>>In the NT, the "soul" (phykhe) can also mean LIFE FORCE. That is why   
   >>>when some one dies and their "soul" leaves the body, it is the life   
   >>>force that leaves the body. And it contains NO personality. Because   
   >>>when a person dies, all his thoughts cease. Ec 9:11,   
   >>>   
   >>>- American Standard   
   >>>Ecclesiastes 9:5  "For the living know that they shall die: but the   
   >>>dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the   
   >>>memory of them is forgotten."   
   >>>   
   >>>Jesus and Paul referred to dead people as sleeping, as John 11:11-14   
   >>>fsays.   
   >   
   >Sincerely James   
   >The one who will   
   >rescue the earth   
   >4/21/2023   
   >Goto jw.org   
      
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