Before I was a Christian the word "soul" wasn't really in my vocabulary, except maybe poetically as in "soul music" or "soul food," implying something emotional, as in "soulful." Oh, also as in "Old King Cole was a Merry Old Soul..." in that case just an old-fashioned word for "person."
Now I equate it with my I-ness, my consciousness, my whole feeling-thinking-willing self apart from my body, which I was always aware of but for some reason didn't identify by the term "soul," the invisible part of me which is the real me. Something like that. I think I used the word "self" for this before I was a Christian, or "consciousness."
And now I believe that the soul is immortal, and that it separates from the body at death, but will be reunited with the body, or really a new body, in the resurrection.
Edited by Faith, : No reason given.
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