> On 20-Jul-2019, at 5:24 AM, 'Brent Meeker' via Everything List > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 7/19/2019 3:14 PM, Philip Thrift wrote: >> Soul atoms are particularly fine and are distributed throughout the body, >> and it is by means of them that we have sensations and the experience of >> pain and pleasure. Body without soul atoms is unconscious and inert, and >> when the atoms of the body are disarranged so that it can no longer support >> conscious life, the soul atoms are scattered and no longer retain the >> capacity for sensation.
Excerpt from Human: Body or Soul? https://signsandscience.blogspot.com/2017/05/human-body-or-soul.html Preamble Who are we? Are we our body or are we our soul or is it a combination of the two? Do we have an existence independent of our body? When we die, do we leave the body, or does life leave us? Who is the I we are so fond of? What are we made of? What do the scriptures say? The Bible and The Quran both inform us that we are made of dust: [Bible, Genesis 3:19] In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread till thou return unto the ground, for out of it wast thou taken; for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.” [Al-Quran, ar-Rum 30:20] And among His Signs (is) that He created you from dust then behold! You (are) human beings dispersing. We all know that we have a body that is composed of earthly materials. Religious people generally believe that they are a SOUL that is temporarily staying in the body. Atheists do not believe in the existence of a SOUL. Jews, Christians and Muslims (People of the Book) shroud and bury the body of their dead. Hindus (Polytheists) burn many of their dead and crush the remaining bones into dust. More on Funeral Rites in References and Further Reading at the end of this post. >From the Bible, we learn that the prophets Jacob and Joseph were concerned >about their body after their death, and asked for it to NOT to be left in >Egypt. From a saying attributed to Prophet Muhammad, we learn that breaking >the bone of a dead person is similar to breaking the bone of a living person >... . . . REST IN PEACE What does the phrase Rest in Peace really mean? What are we wishing or praying for the dead? It seems that there is an intermediate existence, after death and before resurrection, in the graves: يَا أَيُّهَا الَّذِينَ آمَنُوا لَا تَتَوَلَّوْا قَوْمًا غَضِبَ اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِمْ قَدْ يَئِسُوا مِنَ الْآخِرَةِ كَمَا يَئِسَ الْكُفَّارُ مِنْ أَصْحَابِ الْقُبُورِ O you who believe! do not make friends with a people with whom Allah is wroth; indeed they despair of the hereafter as the unbelievers despair of those in tombs. [Al-Quran 60:13, Translator: Shakir] Our earthly residence is further confirmed: Have not We made the earth a receptacle (For the) living and (the) dead, [Al-Quran 77:25 – 26] And not equal (are) the living and not the dead. Indeed, Allah causes to hear whom He wills, and not you can make hear (those) who (are) in the graves. [Al-Quran 35:22] >From Genesis 47:29 – 30, we know that Jacob asked to be buried in Canaan. Why >not Egypt where he died? >From Genesis 50:25 we learn that Jacob’s son Joseph asked for his bones to be >taken away from Egypt when God liberates the children of Israel. Why? >From the Quran, we learn that the Pharaoh, who drowned in Exodus, and his >people are routinely shown the Fire: The Fire; they are exposed to it morning and evening. And (the) Day (will be) established the Hour, "Cause to enter (the) people (of) Firaun (in the) severest punishment." [Al-Quran 40:46] Q102 (Surah at-Takathur) informs us that we will surely see Hellfire when we reach the graves. Q19:68-72 informs us that each one of us must come to the Fire. From Q7:40 we learn that the guilty will not be able to escape and ascend to the gates of the sky/heaven until the camel passes through the eye of the needle, and from Q15:44 we learn that Hell has seven gates. There are seven permanent lava lakes on Earth. (A video of a lava lake at National Geographic) We learn from Q18:98-100 that when the promise comes to pass, Hell will be exposed to view. Several ayaat across the Quran inform us that the mountains will be removed then. Q78:20-22 explicitly states that when that happens, Hell is lying in wait. Lo! as for those whom the angels take (in death) while they wrong their NAFS, (the angels) will ask: In what were ye engaged? They will say: We were oppressed in the land. (The angels) will say: Was not Allah's earth spacious that ye could have migrated therein? As for such, their habitation will be hell, an evil journey's end; Except the feeble among men, and the women, and the children, who are unable to devise a plan and are not shown a way. As for such, it may be that Allah will pardon them. Allah is ever Clement, Forgiving. Whoso migrateth for the cause of Allah will find much refuge and abundance in the earth, and whoso forsaketh his home, a fugitive unto Allah and His messenger, and death overtaketh him, his reward is then incumbent on Allah. Allah is ever Forgiving, Merciful. [Al-Quran 4:97-100, Translator: Pickthall] ... . . . -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/everything-list/DBD4AB1B-8481-471B-B2DB-219013CB5B57%40gmail.com.
