Animals are called souls. I believe a soul can be thought of as the center of emotions. According to the Bible, animals have souls, and they obviously have a body.
I don't know, Russ. Using your own quoted bible passage from another thread:
"And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years."
—Revelation 20:4... we can see that the term 'soul' references more than the center of emotions. In that passage, for instance, the writer
sees the souls. Emotions cannot be seen, in this life and highly unlikely also in the next. Emotions are
felt. What feels them is most likely, the spirit. That force of life that causes a heart to begin beating. That same force of life that causes one living being being to be a happy soul and another to be forlorn for lack thereof of the same happy, content
spirit.
In the bible God may refer to his own soul. He also refers to his everlasting spirit. He makes reference to the pouring out of his
spirit. But he never states he will pour out his soul does he? His soul is the all of himself. His spirit is probably better defined as his energy, his emotion, whether that be a
spirit of love, of life, happiness, or possibly even the wrath of his angry spirit as the case may be.
As we mature, we begin to (hopefully and under healthy conditions) explore the fact that we are in a body. We may lift up our arm and look at our hand and say, "That's really weird". I experienced this when I was young. I would marvel at that fact that I had control of this body that would so whatever I "told" it to do. I realized that it was a complex machine with moving parts and intricate design.
That is so funny, I never went through that myself. It's interesting though... when someone loses a leg for instance, usually they say they can still feel their leg even though the fleshly physical part is missing.
Walk in the spirit... his spirit... of love, forgiveness, everlasting life, and even power for
his spirit is powerful. Walk humbly.
More later, time for my pillow.
