If you lose all your body parts can you still be alive?

[Memaw]

You have a platonic understanding of the soul. According to Aquinas the soul is the form of the human body. That is to say a body is human in relation to its form. What makes a body human is the intellect of human beings. As far as i can understand it, Aquinas seems to say that the form of the human body is both a form and a thing by itself and is thus able to continue existing after the body dies. However, since the form is with out the body, a complete “human person” no-longer exists, and all that is left is an incomplete thing that was a human. This implies that a person as we understand it is not a soul in a body, but rather a person is union of both soul and body. This means that “you” are not your soul. It is merely apart of what makes you you. And until your form is united with its body, your existence as a person will be incomplete.

Perhaps my interpretation is wrong. I am not sure.

Perhaps it is, The intellect of the human being is in the soul, it goes with the soul after death. We are BOTH body and soul, but they do separate at death until the end of time. It is God’s will that the soul works thru the body as long as the body is alive but at death the soul functions quite nicely by itself. The soul is immortal and the body is not. At least not until it is resurrected at the end of the world by God and made immortal. That’s God’s Will, HE designed us that way and that is what the Catholic Church teaches and has always taught. What is most remarkable is that EVERY soul God creates at the moment of conception is unique and non repeatable. That is what helps to make us who we are. How we choose to live determines the final destination of our soul and consequently our body also

 

[Thing]

Eh…that would give you an age greater than the dirt in our know universe.

Are you sure you haven’t been at the scotch or the whiskey bottle again?

Granny is made from stardust.

 

[armalanon]

I am reading the quotes and I can feel some kind of conflict between who has the perfect wisdom on this subject .wisdom is not given to us on a certain age it is given to all those that seek him , you are not credible because you say you are 100 and I am less credible because I am 20’ from the mouths of the children wisdom speaks a child of 5,of 20 or 0f 100
years it makes no difference its the wisdom inside the child that makes you credible and not on how old are you like I am seeing in these quotes .every one of us put together we might come out with the right answer together we make sense our salvation depends from each other too so every one of us will give the best of him or her so that finally we come together with the truth if it’s Gods will.

 

[Memaw]

I am reading the quotes and I can feel some kind of conflict between who has the perfect wisdom on this subject .wisdom is not given to us on a certain age it is given to all those that seek him , you are not credible because you say you are 100 and I am less credible because I am 20’ from the mouths of the children wisdom speaks a child of 5,of 20 or 0f 100
years it makes no difference its the wisdom inside the child that makes you credible and not on how old are you like I am seeing in these quotes .every one of us put together we might come out with the right answer together we make sense our salvation depends from each other too so every one of us will give the best of him or her so that finally we come together with the truth if it’s Gods will.

Don’t look now but I think we were just kidding. God Bless, Memaw