I don’t know what the Church teaches, but my idea of the soul is it’s like personhood. It’s an extension of a being’s identity. You are you, but you have a soul and a person. The soul answers to God and the person answers to society. That is my understanding of what the soul is.What is the nature of the soul? Is it akin to a personality? Does the soul remain unchanged throughout a person’s life even though a person may change as it grows?
The person is the composit of body and soul. The soul remains the same throughout life even though every cell in the body is replaced about seven times throughout ones life. The soul remember is a spiritual substance, it has no potency to change. And since the soul is the form of the body the Person also remains unchanged throughout life. We are the same person on our last day that we were on our first day.What is the nature of the soul? Is it akin to a personality? Does the soul remain unchanged throughout a person’s life even though a person may change as it grows?
Genesis 6:1-4 has humans interbreeding with non-humans. Does Genesis count as a “Church document”?Show one Church document that references any sort of hybrid or hominid. There aren’t any.
I’m not Catholic, I just cited the Catechism to show that in the Church a soul has nothing to do with DNA.Does the church teach that the soul that God has given us is a generic one and not necessarily matched to ones personality?
Just on the face of it, you should know this would be impossible. How could an immaterial being mate with a human?Genesis 6:1-4 has humans interbreeding with non-humans. Does Genesis count as a “Church document”?
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Nobody said anything about immaterial beings mating with humans. During the days of Adam and Eve, other hominids were likely available for mating. This is likely the way that Cain found wives in the East of Eden.Just on the face of it, you should know this would be impossible. How could an immaterial being mate with a human?
The Church explains this passage as follows. The sons of Adam and Eve who followed the Lord were termed Sons of God. While those who followed Cain were termed sons of men.
Did immaterial God mate with the Virgin Mary, or did he just have a material embryo implanted in her womb while preserving her virginity?Just on the face of it, you should know this would be impossible. How could an immaterial being mate with a human?
Sorry, I thought you were making the same erroneous conclusion made by others.Nobody said anything about immaterial beings mating with humans. During the days of Adam and Eve, other hominids were likely available for mating. This is likely the way that Cain found wives in the East of Eden.
" Sons of God " here should be interpreted as descendents of Adam and Ever who worshiped God and lived good moral lives. They could be regarded as " adopted sons of God " in the sense that all morally good people are adopted sons of God. And therefore, they differed from Christ, who was God’s real son.If Adam and Eve’s first two offspring were Sons of God, did they differ from Jesus in that they were adopted by God rather than begotten by God? Both terms “sons of God” and “son of God” appear in Jewish literature and leaders of the people, kings and princes were called “sons of God”, predating the New Testament.
God is a Spirit, what you suggest is not possible and is very irreverent. We don’t know how God worked this miracle. Obviously, He who created the universe can do what he wishes just by willing it. On the other hand he turned water into wine. So he could have converted the available material into a male body.Did immaterial God mate with the Virgin Mary, or did he just have a material embryo implanted in her womb while preserving her virginity?
There is a lot of excellent information out there so I am assuming you are asking random people on the Internet because you are not truly interested in knowing the answer.What is the nature of the soul? Is it akin to a personality? Does the soul remain unchanged throughout a person’s life even though a person may change as it grows?
Your assumption is wrong. I am really interested in knowing an answer. Understanding the nature of the soul is a key interest of mine. That way I can avoid asking unanswerable questions.There is a lot of excellent information out there so I am assuming you are asking random people on the Internet because you are not truly interested in knowing the answer.
It is pretty clear that if one does not have an inkling of the divine, of the world of the spirit, one will end up talking about hominids and such, missing the whole point.
If you don’t want unanswerable questions, you may wish to reconsider science:Your assumption is wrong. I am really interested in knowing an answer. Understanding the nature of the soul is a key interest of mine. That way I can avoid asking unanswerable questions.