Immortality of Human soul

Introduction

In the first chapter of Genesis reveals that man was specially created by God in His very own image and likeness.

The exact nature of a living soul is in the heart of debate about that person. For a modern, orthodox Christian ears, the word "soul" means something that is immortal and conscious after death, something that goes to heaven or hell (Freese 2005 138). But the biblical usage of the word is quite different.

This is the educational concept of the human soul. The human soul, which is a fundamental principle of intellectual power, is the principle of life in the human body, and essential forms, entelechy, or other authority. And the human soul is not only essential form, or entelechy, as well as the soul of plants and animals in accordance with the biological philosophy of Aristotle, the human soul and spirit, spiritual substance can exist apart from matter, CE of the human soul is the root principle of spiritual forces that are not intrinsically dependent on matter. Man is both soul and spirit, and this is his very substance, subsistence and existence that are brought to the attention of the whole human substance in order to make a human being, as it is, and do it there and there. Each element of the human body human, and exists as such, by virtue of the existence of an intangible human spirit. Our bodies, our hands, our eyes are there because of the existence of our soul (Lantz 2003 499).

Immaterial soul is the essential first root is not only intelligence, but all that is in us; in spiritual activity and it is also the first significant root of all our other activities of life.

The existence of the soul

It is this immortality, and how scholasticism established its rational certainty that I would now like to talk about.

Of course, we must understand that we have a soul, before we can discuss whether it is immortal. Thomas Aquinas proceeds in this matter.

He notes, first of all that has activity; the activity of intellect, which itself has no value. Activities of intelligence do not matter, because the proportional or "innate" the object of human intelligence is not, as the object of the senses, and especially the limited categories of things, or rather a particular and limited category of qualitative properties of things. Proportional or "innate" nature of the object intelligence sense perceivable things considered in a comprehensive manner, all relevant sense can be. It's not only - as for vision - the color or color things (which absorbs and reflects such or such rays of light), or - for both men - the sound or the sound source, it's a whole universe of meaning and texture, perceived reality, which may be known intelligence, because intelligence does not stop at quality, but breaks beyond, and continues to look at the essence (Mahan 2003 520)This fact alone is proof of spirituality, or total intangible our intellect, for each activity in which the latter played an ...