Does Jesus have a soul?

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I know this is a stupid question and I am pretty sure I know the answer. I am pretty sure that Jesus does indeed have a soul since He is both man and God but I wanted to get a confirmation to make sure I have the correct answer. So, does Jesus have a soul?
 
the implication would be that jesus had a human body, and in the way our souls operate our bodies, jesus being divine it would be god functioning as his soul, but this maybe raises further questions…
 
I don’t know that it’s a stupid question. It’s an interesting question - perhaps even a conundrum. I’m surprised some athiest hasn’t brought it up. :hmmm:

This question is not nearly so simple as it appears on the surface.:hypno:

I’m curious what the gallery has to say. Bueller? Bueller? Anyone?
 
Holly3278 said:
I know this is a stupid question and I am pretty sure I know the answer. I am pretty sure that Jesus does indeed have a soul since He is both man and God but I wanted to get a confirmation to make sure I have the correct answer. So, does Jesus have a soul?
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Yes, and it is present in the Holy Eucharist. (Body, Blood, Soul and Divinity)
 
Yes, He has a human soul (paragraph 470 in the Catechism). No, it isn’t a silly question. 😉
 
Holly3278 said:
I know this is a stupid question and I am pretty sure I know the answer. I am pretty sure that Jesus does indeed have a soul since He is both man and God but I wanted to get a confirmation to make sure I have the correct answer. So, does Jesus have a soul?
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CCC 470 Because “human nature was assumed, not absorbed”, in the mysterious union of the Incarnation,** the Church was led over the course of centuries to confess the full reality of Christ’s human soul**, with its operations of intellect and will, and of his human body. In parallel fashion, she had to recall on each occasion that Christ’s human nature belongs, as his own, to the divine person of the Son of God, who assumed it. Everything that Christ is and does in this nature derives from “one of the Trinity”. The Son of God therefore communicates to his humanity his own personal mode of existence in the Trinity. In his soul as in his body, Christ thus expresses humanly the divine ways of the Trinity:

The Son of God. . . worked with human hands; he thought with a human mind. He acted with a human will, and with a human heart he loved. Born of the Virgin Mary, he has truly been made one of us, like to us in all things except sin.
 
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the implication would be that jesus had a human body, and in the way our souls operate our bodies, jesus being divine it would be god functioning as his soul, but this maybe raises further questions…
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What you have just described is a heresy promoted by Apollinaris in the late 4th century. I’m sure you didn’t intend to do this 🤷 but anyhow when you have a chance check out Marthalers The Creed. It’s a good text that explains some of the early heresies the Church worked through before coming to its current understanding of Christs nature.
 
But we make use of necessary examples, everywhere keeping undivided the Union and repelling thy severance. The example of the sun however, none of them who think aright brings to the establishment of union, knowing that we follow the Divine Scriptures, which have it that the Word of God (as we have said) should partake in like wise as we in blood and flesh ensouled with a reasonable soul, and not on the contrary that it is man who by participation and mere affection, is illuminated by the Divine Economy as if from a ray of the sun. - St Cyril of Alexandria, Against Theodore, ch. 6
 
I’m not disagreeing on what the Catholic Church teaches, or what I believe for that matter, but merely “looking outside the box” for a moment
 
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I’m not disagreeing on what the Catholic Church teaches, or what I believe for that matter, but merely “looking outside the box” for a moment
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Thats what Apollinaris said. 😉

(Just kidding. I’d never even heard of Apollinaris before today.)
 
Oh okay. I thank you all for the replies to my post. That said, I had forgotten about how the Eucharist is the body, blood, soul, and divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ. I also didn’t think to look in the Catechism. :o
 
ok with all said,
1,we have the the Father God, who is all Spirit
2, we have the Holy Spirit
3, we have Jesus
4, and his Spirit…(also known as the “Word”, correct? and the Word dwelt among us)

and since there is but One God, the Spirits, 1, 2, and 4, are one and the same, but differenct, correct??

In Christ!
 
Yes, Jesus absolutely has a soul.
If not, He would not have been truly human, and He also could not have truly died. Human death is the separation of body and soul. When Jesus died, His body and soul were separated, as with any other human, but He was able to rise from the dead because this human body and this human soul were still united to His divine Person, which, of course, cannot die.
St. Thomas Aquinas wrote that without a soul, Jesus would not have been a true man, but rather some other species. He also wrote that since Jesus came to redeem us from our sins, He would of necessity take on a human soul because it is in the soul that sin originates. By bringing both body and soul with Him in the Ascension into heaven, Jesus shows us the value and dignity that both parts of our humanity have.
 
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