{"id":8817,"date":"2025-08-11T18:11:05","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=8817"},"modified":"2025-08-11T18:11:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T16:11:06","slug":"about-the-human-soul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/predication.net\/?p=8817","title":{"rendered":"About the human soul."},"content":{"rendered":"

I was talking about death the other day. I mentioned what infidels say. They argue that death is to turn into nothing. We were, we will run out of smoke, steam; death is the end of everything. <\/span>This<\/span> is what living people say in mortal sin, because they fear and tremble before the judgment of the righteous God, they would like it if death were the end of everything, that’s why they do so, like a child in the dark, they whistle, they sing to conceal their fear. He who lives like an animal does not ask to live even after death. And yet he will live forever, but his eternal life will be an eternal torment! Therefore, it is better to believe that a believer’s heart is a soul than to cast our soul into damnation by unreasonable denial. Every person with common sense believes that he is a soul. Although we cannot see it with our physical eyes, faith teaches us about it, and experience testifies.<\/span><\/h2>\n

There was a famous professor in Budapest. He once dissected a human corpse. In doing so, he spoke to his medical students who were standing by: “You see, I have already dissected several thousand corpses, but my scalpel has not yet found a soul. Look here, now I will cut this body into individual organs and parts, show me where the soul is until I see it, I do not believe. “<\/span><\/h2>\n

Well, let this wise professor of medicine show me his mind until he shows it to me; I don’t believe he has a mind! However, he is right about one thing, namely that there is no soul in a corpse.<\/span><\/h2>\n

We know so much that when a person is conceived in the life of a mother, at that moment God creates a soul for him in his body, and that soul remains in that body until that person dies. When a man dies, his soul comes out of his body; but as the soul comes into the body and as it comes out of it, there is no wise man who can explain it, only God himself knows that. It lies that she is in the body; we see, we experience, because a person lives, moves, talks, cries, laughs, thinks, does, but only as long as his soul is in the body.<\/span><\/h2>\n

The soul is a spirit; we do not see it like the sun; we cannot hear it like the voice of a bell; we cannot smell it like a flower; we cannot catch it like a piece of wood, but we feel it in ourselves, because she loves or hates, rejoices or grieves, moved by her we walk or stand, she speaks and thinks in us.<\/span><\/h2>\n

St. Augustine had a friend named Genadius, a particular doctor. He was a proper, brave, and zealous doctor who treated the poor for free and carefully cared for the sick. His only mistake was doubting whether he had a soul. For his many good deeds, the Lord God granted him the grace to send an angel to him in a dream. Angel started talking to him:<\/span><\/h2>\n

“Genadius, can you see me? \u2013 Yes, I see you. \u2013 Do you see me with your eyes? \u2013 No, because now I’m sleeping. \u2013 So how do you see me? \u2013 I don’t know. \u2013 Do you hear what am I’m saying? \u2013 I hear. \u2013 Well, do you hear my voice with your ears? \u2013 No. \u2013 Are you speaking now? \u2013 Yes. \u2013 You are speaking with your mouth? \u2013 No. \u2014 Well, behold, you are sleeping now, after all, you see, hear, and speak. So do you already believe that you have a soul? “The doctor woke up and no longer doubted that he was a soul.<\/span><\/h2>\n

Surely man is a strange creature of God; he is in the world like a stone; he grows like a tree; he feels like an animal; he has reason like an angel, and he has a soul like God. As scholars make a sphere similar to our Earth from paper and draw countries on this paper so that we can see the whole world with one look, so also the Lord God, when he created our soul, he drew his image on our soul in a small way, in the soul of a person we can see a strange parable of God himself, because the soul is a spirit similar to God, it lives forever similarly to God, he has reason and free will similarly to God. <\/span>This<\/span> is what the words of the Scriptures say: “Then God said: ‘Let us make man in our image and according to our likeness! And God created man in his image. “(Gn 1,26 27). The soul of man has become like the Father in its memory, the Son in its reason, and the Holy Spirit in its will.<\/span><\/h2>\n

The soul lives forever, the Savior Jesus Christ predicted to his disciples that suffering awaits them, martyrdom, but he also encouraged them: “Do not be afraid of those; they kill the body, but they cannot kill the soul. Rather, fear the one who can destroy both soul and body in <\/span>hell<\/span>. “(Mt 10,28). After all, if there were no soul, a person would be cursed worse than the last worm. At least the worm does not feel; it does not understand that it is the last one. A lie for a person is the doubled misery of this life, because he feels and thinks; he feels that the criminals are humiliating him, he sees that he is doing well with a bastard, but he has nothing to put in his mouth. But he hopes he will suffer. Life is short, but the soul is eternal. God repays according to merit.<\/span><\/h2>\n

A better example is the parable of poor Lazarus. Lazarus was a beggar, sleeping in the open air overnight. An ugly illness plagued him; everyone turned away from him, and<\/span> only the dogs licked his wounds. And this Lazarus died, his troubles came to an end, and<\/span> angels escorted his soul to Heaven.<\/span><\/h2>\n

The soul has reason, knows the things present, and<\/span> examines the future. He knows where the world comes from, what God created it for. He believes in God with his soul, longs for Him with his heart, and<\/span> prays to Him. That is why God gave reason to our souls so that we could understand the preciousness of the soul. Let us consider that the only begotten Son of God, Jesus Christ, not man, not angel, sent us as a redeemer, but He gave Himself for our redemption. The soul has free will. God presents his commands to us, but does not force us to keep them; he leaves it to us, and we decide to do so. God does not do with us like that, stupid Father who had an iron cage made for his mischievous child, locked him in it, gave him food and drink to meet him, it didn’t make you angry. A person with complete freedom does as they please. If they perform well, they will receive retribution; if they perform poorly, they will be fined.<\/span><\/h2>\n

“Before man lies life and death, good and evil: he gets what he likes. “(Sir 15,18). True, the path of sin is easy and wide; it leads to <\/span>Hell<\/span>. The path of virtue is difficult and narrow, but it leads to Heaven.<\/span><\/h2>\n

To Sts. Once, two more critical men came to Mak\u00e1rio. They begged him to teach them such wisdom that they would benefit from it until death. St. Macarius poured the water into one container and invited those guests to look into it. What do you see in it? \u2013 asked them. We see our face reflected in that water. Then St. Macarius threw a piece of mud into the water, confused it, and asked again what they saw in it now. Nothing, \u2013 answered him. You speak well. Behold, here is the wisdom of life. If you keep your soul clean from the mud of sins, you will have an image of God himself in it. So live that this dear holy image never fails: that will be your true wisdom.<\/span><\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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