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  2. Soul in the Bible - Wikipedia

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    The only Hebrew word traditionally translated "soul" (nephesh) in English-language Bibles refers to a living, breathing conscious body, rather than to an immortal soul. [4] In the New Testament, the Greek word traditionally translated "soul" (ψυχή) "psyche", has substantially the same meaning as the Hebrew, without reference to an immortal ...

  3. Christian mortalism - Wikipedia

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    The Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible, 2000 says, "Far from referring simply to one aspect of a person, "soul" refers to the whole person". [227] The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia says, "Possibly Jn. 6:33 also includes an allusion to the general life-giving function. This teaching rules out all ideas of an emanation of the soul."

  4. Christian conditionalism - Wikipedia

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    In Christian theology, conditionalism or conditional immortality is a concept in which the gift of immortality is attached to (conditional upon) belief in Jesus Christ.This concept is based in part upon another biblical argument, that the human soul is naturally mortal, immortality ("eternal life") is therefore granted by God as a gift.

  5. Annihilationism - Wikipedia

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    Christian writers from Tertullian to Luther have held to traditional notions of Hell. However, the annihilationist position is not without some historical precedent. Early forms of annihilationism or conditional immortality are claimed to be found in the writings of Ignatius of Antioch [10] [20] (d. 108/140), Justin Martyr [21] [22] (d. 165), and Irenaeus [10] [23] (d. 202), among others.

  6. Eternal life (Christianity) - Wikipedia

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    [10] The Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible on the other hand, contends that "the nature of eternal life is only sketched in its essential elements in the New Testament". [9] John W. Ritenbaugh says that eternal life is knowing God, and that Jesus implies an intimate relationship with God that matures over time. [11] Ostromir Gospel of John, 1056

  7. Christian anthropology - Wikipedia

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    The semantic domain of biblical soul is based on the Hebrew word nepes, which presumably means "breath" or "breathing being". [23] This word never means an immortal soul [24] or an incorporeal part of the human being [25] that can survive death of the body as the spirit of dead. [26] This word usually designates the person as a whole [27] or ...

  8. Problem of Hell - Wikipedia

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    Christians picked up these pagan beliefs inferred by the Greek of immortality of the soul, or spirit being of a mortal individual, which survives the death of the body of this world and this lifetime, which is at odds and in contrast to the scriptural teaching that the dead go to the grave and know nothing and then at the end, an eternal ...

  9. Intermediate state (Christianity) - Wikipedia

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    The soul rests in an interspace in which one will experience a manifestation of one's soul resulting in a cold sleep state, awaiting the Day of Judgement. In Islam all human beings go through five steps of age: The age in the world of souls is where a human soul has been created and the soul waits until being imbued into a chosen fetus by an Angel.