>You don’t have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body. — C.S. Lewis
I like that quote, and agree with it. Besides that, if there was no ‘immortal soul’, as it were, what then did Paul mean when he talked about seeing Him [Jesus] being like Him it the Resurrection?
Also, given the above, why is it that some people believe that resurrected beings are ‘ghost-like’ when Jesus plainly says to Thomas “Stick your hands in my holes” (hands and side) as well as ate with the disciples? A spirit/ghost cannot do those things, indicating that the resurrection is indeed physical as well.
Therefore, I believe that the soul and the body will both be resurrected. Whether or not the soul is ‘immortal’ is immaterial at this point because in order to resurrect people long-dead He would have to [re-]create bodies for them; and how hard would it be for God to [re-]create a soul if it had ‘died’? If it hadn’t, then how hard would it be for God to give this soul a new body?
In all, a moot point in the face of an All-powerful God.
Yes, one could say that.
In your post to Petronski you raise a bunch of questions. I believe that the article Ken wrote answers them all. Have you read it all? When I first read it I found myself taking a fine-toothed scalpel approach in examining it. Much of what he said I had already known, but he added some finishing touches to what I discovered. I'm thankful that articles like this exist, and that they can be shared.
The problem being that given an All-powerful God, EVERYTHING is a moot point.