Body or soul?

 

Body or soul?

In a galaxy called The Milky Way, there is a bluish planet that the inhabitants call Earth in one of their languages. It is a water world populated by water and carbon creatures. The dominant species are Humans who falsely believe that they rule the world. They sort of do, to some degree. The truth is, they are able to destroy themselves, but not much else.

Humans are truly marvellous creations if they could act together and use the gifts instilled in them in creation, but we have one great enemy preventing us. It is ourselves. We realized our potential at the beginning of the agricultural revolution and were divided up to keep us in our place and not challenge God. We have been divided in many other ways since.

In Babylon, it was languages that blocked us from reaching God’s level and now it is politics, economic theories, and religions dividing us. The latest is beliefs in God versus believing that there is no God or supreme being. The biggest division amongst us is between humans who believe that we are physical beings and those who maintain that we are spiritual.

Now there is an additional dimension entering the fray. Over the last fifty years or so, we built machines that can rival our intellect. Artificial intelligence can physically mimic a human and do what we do with no understanding of the spiritual aspect. Machines are unable to believe, only to follow programming. Used as a tool they are incredibly efficient but they lack our greatest potential. Yet, there are already machines that can kill us without direct human instructions.

God as we know Him is a soul or a spirit who created us in His image. He didn’t make us only a spirit, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, and other gobbledygook; nor a physical, limited being like the machines. We are both at the same time and space. The material part, the body, exists by using physical sensors that are not capable of sensing the soul.

Researchers embedded in a primitive tribe were amazed to see a young girl spending most of her time with an ancient grandmother and asked a wise elder why. The elder explained that the young child, just came from the spirit world so she felt a closeness to the old woman who is ready to go back to the spirit world. The belief in the existence of a soul is strong in humans and goes back thousands of years.

We will never know when it began, but all human groups have a belief in the existence of souls. It is not a wish to live forever, not believing in an imaginary Sky God, it is recognizing that something is there. It is not visible to any physical sense, but a soul can think and act, perhaps more powerfully than anything physical.

Many studies prove that all of our senses are regularly fooled. Ask any magician about it. Open a psychology textbook and view proof of how the eyes chose what to see or not. Our sense of time and speed is also all wrong. To be honest, we have a lot of evidence that what we call “the world” is not what we think it is. Old people told us over many generations that when we get old, we learn how much we don’t know. It’s true.

Opposing forces formed all of creation. You can’t paint light without black, there is no heat without cold, no life without death. The value of all that we desire is dictated by its scarcity. We derive pleasure from what is denied to others. A human always strives to tell others what to do and not allow others to tell us what to do. We often risk our lives for the “freedom” to do what we ourselves determined to be harmful to us. The police make a steady income by catching drivers acting dangerously.

Our opinions of what is dangerous change regularly. My mother, and all other mothers at the time, smoked during pregnancy and later while breastfeeding me. Now someone would call the police if a mother smoke with kids in the vehicle with all windows open. In France, smoking isn’t considered dangerous. We thrive on conflicts and preach peace.

The whole controversy about the existence of spirits or even the reality of material things could be only a question of human beliefs. Our latest research in quantum physics leaves the door open to human interpretation. Are we a physical form? Spiritual? Or none of the above. Were we just influenced by Christ telling us that material things are not valuable?

You must remember the parable about the guy who found a great pearl and sold all else to get it. That pearl was the discovery of the immaterial soul.

There is substantial power in being only a spirit like God himself, yet He created us a body and soul. Do we just go back to being a soul when the body dies? The all-knowing God must have had a reason to do what He did, and we are not even approaching his level of knowledge. Try to create a human or even a mouse and you will find out. He built a universe in which all things exist in balance with each other.

The first commandment is to love God with all your heart. In English, there is only one kind of love but there are many. The second is to never attempt to visualize the spirit we worship as God. I wonder why. Is it so we will know that a spirit is completely not material? Why is that important?

The knowledge creates the needed balance. God gave us that which he denied himself. The gift of being a soul with a physical, limited body. He did it because he loves us more than himself. He demands that we will love each other as he loves us for our benefit.

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