Remember what Jesus identified as the greatest commandment in all the law: But is that really all that soul can mean? Not at all. So it is true that the word “soul” can simply refer to a person rather than to an inner component of a person. “So then, those who had received his word were baptized and that day there were added about three thousand souls” (Acts 2:41). Indeed, people are often referred to as “souls” when they are numbered, such as when Luke writes of the day of Pentecost: “So also it is written, ‘The first man, Adam, became a living soul.’ The last Adam became a life-giving spirit” (2 Corinthians 15:45). “Then the Lord God formed man of dust from the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and man became a living being ” (Genesis 2:7).Īnd commenting on the same passage, Paul says:
It certainly can simply mean “a person,” such as when we today say something like “you poor soul.” In the creation account, for example, the Bible does say: Similarly, the word “soul” holds more than one meaning in Scripture. The sentences are nearly identical, but the words “exercise,” “right,” and “arms” all have completely different meanings derived from the context in which they are being used. If I am teaching a class at a gym and instruct a group of men to exercise their right arms, I mean something very different than a militia leader who urges his men to exercise their right to bear arms. The same word can have different meanings in different contexts. This is, of course, one way the biblical authors use the word “soul,” though hardly the only way.
They claim that the soul “is the entire creature, not something inside that survives the death of the body.” 1 (accessed 6/13/17) Man (according to the Watchtower) does not have a soul, man is a soul, and “soul” simply means a living, breathing, physical being. They deny that humans have a “soul” or any spiritual component to their being.
They insist that human beings entirely cease to exist at the moment of physical death. Jehovah’s Witnesses claim that there is no part of a man that continues to exist consciously after death.
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