I am a mother of five, grandmother of eight. I love and enjoy my family. My two boys have passed, one at birth in 1972, living only 20mins..my oldest boy was murdered in May of 2002. My youngest sister passed June 12, 2005. She was proud of her indian heritage. To all my loved one's who have passed, Egogahan, Apache word meaning,"Till We Meet Again".
Our soul is nothing more than our life, and our spirit is our actual self. The physical body we carry around with us in the world is simply a tool through which our spirit--our real self--is able to act in the material world.1 Cor 15:44 It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.Paul is noting the distinction between 'two' bodies we each have. This word "natural" is Greek 'psuchikos', meaning 'animate' which is the part we have in common with the animals, i.e. a gross sensuous nature. And the word "spiritual" is Greek 'pneumatikos', meaning 'non-carnal, i.e. (humanly) ethereal (as opposed to gross)' (Strong's 5591, 4152). Ethereal means of the Heavenly dimension.
We each have 'both' bodies while in the flesh, together at the same time, for as Paul said here, "...there is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body". That means present tense, as in 'right now'.
So at death of the flesh, the "spiritual body" which already is inside our flesh vehicle, merely steps out with its 'soul' intact, and separates from the flesh at death, the "silver cord" being "loosed" (Ecclesiastes 12:5-7). This is a very natural operation which God setup, and we should never fear it, even though the devil's own do everything they can to distort this Truth, and cause many to fear it.
Love consists in desiring to give what is your own to another; to feel the joy of another as joy in yourself, that is loving.
"Love and wisdom, apart from action, are only imaginary concepts. That is, they do not become real unless they are used."
The idea that only people who are born in the Christian religion are saved is a foolish heresy. Those who are born outside Christianity are people just as much as those living within it. They have the same heavenly origin, and they are equally living and immortal souls. They also have a religious faith from which they recognize that there is a God, and that they should live good lives. And all who believe in God and live good lives become spiritual in their own way, and are saved.
Some people object that non-Christians have not been baptized. But baptism saves people only when they are spiritually washed, meaning spiritually reborn, since baptism is a symbol and a reminder of that.
Some people also object that non-Christians do not know the Lord [Jesus], and that without the Lord no one can be saved. But salvation does not come to us because we know the Lord; it comes to us because we follow the Lord's commandments. Besides, everyone who believes in God knows the Lord, since the Lord is the God of heaven and earth.Grace says Believe and Live.
"Returning To Light"
"A doctor was attending a child who was very ill. 'As I turned to pick up my medical bag, I saw a beautiful lady…approaching the child’s crib…I knew that I was not observing any member of any earthly family. The lovely being bent over the crib…and then took the spirit form of the child into its arms and passed right through the wall of the nursery with the child cradled next to her breast'."
