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   Friend james tries another bite of the apple:   
      
   >The churches teach us that all humans have an immortal soul. That when   
   >we die, the soul departs and goes to live somewhere else. The churches   
   >claim to represent God and the Bible. We have an IMMORTAL SOUL?   
   >So let's see:   
   >   
   >Ezekiel 18:4  Behold, all souls are mine; the soul of the father as   
   >well as the soul of the son is mine: the soul that sins shall die.   
   >   
   As before, the jw vatican has *no* scholars of greek/hebrew.  That leaves   
   them dependent on translation and the narrow meaning.  Some transla5ions   
   have "body/life" in place of "soul", what gives?  Eeasy, the hebrew easily   
   inclues a range of meaning that allows    for all above, from the verse in   
   question :   
      
   nephesh (neh'-fesh)   
      a breathing creature, i.e. animal of (abstractly) vitality; used very   
   widely in a literal, accommodated or figurative sense (bodily or mental)   
      
   Yes, God the Father or God the Son has "vitality",ie. a "soul".  Humans who   
   sin can have a loss of their "vitality", ie. a death of the body/"soul" as   
   the hebrew provides above.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)