Immortality and the Soul

Anyone who believes in God has his or her own reasons for doing so. However, if one does believe in God, then they must believe in immortality because the Bible assures it. A true Christian believes that they will not die—in the spiritual sense that is. The book of Genesis shows that God gave Adam the breath of life and that he “became a living soul”. This means to me that Adam was a soul. Yet, when we die, we turn to dust and return to the ground. What happens to our soul when we are not of the flesh? Human life and the universe do not follow a straight line. If one believes in immortality, then it sounds like life does take the form of a moving circle. Like the universe, the flow of life is in perpetual motion.

Man is a living being and he is comprised of a body, a mind, and a life. These three components are intertwined in order for man to be of the flesh. Perhaps this is why according to the Bible, souls need to be delivered from death because “flesh and blood cannot enter into the Kingdom of God” (1 Corinthians). In order to enter the Kingdom of God, man must be changed from a carnal to a spiritual person. I personally think that the soul resides here on earth or heaven and that life comes from death. I believe that the body is quantitative and that it can dissolve into its parts. However, I believe the soul is not quantitative and it cannot dissolve into parts, or die.

I studied religion in college and found the Buddhist religion to be both interesting and perplexing at the same time. Buddhist believe that our today is most important and if one thinks they will probably be alive tomorrow, then they did not truly live today. They also believe that if you place greater value in the past or count on the future, then it means you did not truly live your life. Buddhist seem to live in the here and now and not for tomorrow like many of us seem to.