Friday, December 23, 2011

Do souls have gender/race? Explain...?

A recommendation I can give you from almost the wisest philosopher/Theologian I have read,is Tertullian, "A Treatise On The Soul ",(easy to look up),its not my favorite treatise of the dozens he wrote,but still filled with his great intellectual style.( ca.second century A.D.),heres a tiny excerpt : ..."For it is impossible for the soul to be called either an animate body or an inanimate one inasmuch as it is the soul itself which makes the body either animate, if it be present to it, or else inanimate, if it be absent from it. That therefore, which produces result, cannot itself be the result, so as to be entitled to the designation of an animate thing or an inanimate one. The soul is so called in respect of its own substance. If, then, that which is the soul admits not of being called an animate body or an inanimate one, how can it challenge comparison with the nature and law of animate and inanimate bodies? "... Do read other Tertullian works sometime

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