Question regarding life within us - Christ?

[tshark1]

I have a question regarding the life we have within each one of us. I will try to be as clear as I possible can…

I see my body as a shell(?) that God created, and the life within me is Christ himself.

God created my body, and as I remember from genesis, he breathed into Adams nosestrills, this “breath” of God, is the life in my body. Without this life inside my body it is just like an empty shell, or like a body of someone dead, no life at all.

This “breath”, my soul,spirit etc, is it Christ himself?

I know i might have messed it all up, but i tried to be as specific as possible, I see this in my imagination in a very simple way.

I know we all have souls, the question I have is my soul, my understanding etc = Christ himself?

If this is the case, then God is inside each one of us with or without sanctifying grace? e.g Jews, Muslims, Hindus etc, in the sense that God = Life itself, and all life = God???

I hope I can get some answers on this topic. And Im sorry if i made it more complicated than it actually is…

Thanks!!!

 

[fhansen]

Augustine once said, “I found you not, Oh Lord, because I sought without that which was within”. As God’s creation, and made in His own image to boot in the case of man, we cannot help but have, and even require, His life in us in some manner, just in order to exist and be sustained.
"God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’" Acts 17:27-28

Taking a bit of liberty perhaps, taking into account Church teachings as a whole, it could be proper to sum things up by saying that God the Trinity indwells all of us but that we’re cut off from Him in any direct conscious and spiritual sense, not knowing or recognizing Him, not necessarily hearing and heeding His voice, not in communion with Him. This separation is the essence of the state known as “original sin”, also as the “death of the soul”. Man was made for communion with God. And while this communion begins here with our faith, as His nature and will have been revealed to us, faith being a gift of grace, full communion or knowledge isn’t attained until the next life.
"For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known." 1 Cor 13:12

 

[bob4]

I suggest you consult the Catechism of the Catholic Church. In the index, under ‘soul’ you will find a number of references. If you don’t own a catechism, you can access it online. Specifically, I think you can find helpful information in sections 362 to 368.