Your Soul is What Makes You, YOU!
Our ability to reason, our emotions, our free-will are all evidence of the existence of our Soul. Our soul works in unison with our physical body. Our Soul is the "electricity" that animates our body, brings it to life, allows it to move about, read a book, drive a car, play sports, know and love God!
Our ability to analyze complex information reveals our intelligibility Our intelligibility gives us superiority over all other creatures on the planet. No other creature can conceive, create and operate a computer, an automobile, an airplane, a submarine or space shuttle. Mankind has made millions of inventions throughout history, some of which consist of tens of thousands of moving parts operating in harmony to aid us in our work, and in our play.
The superiority of human being's abilities and intelligence is also captured in our exquisite paintings, sculptures, music, dance, literature and films. All these forms of art allow mankind to display his inward imagination outward because he desires to share them with others.
Mankind’s intelligibility also allows him to look inside his own mind and body helping him to cure the defects of his mental, physical and spiritual well-being. No other species has ever psycho-analyzed their own species. No other species has built universities to share the knowledge it has accumulated over thousands of years. A chimpanzee has never performed a triple by-pass on a pig so it could gain the medical knowledge of how to perform the same operation on another chimpanzee—and it never will. Why? Because revelation from God has told us that only mankind has "god-like" abilities.
The first book of the Holy Bible is the Book of Genesis. It says that humankind was made in the image and likeness of God:
"So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them. 28 And God blessed them, and God said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over every living thing that moves upon the earth." 29 And God said, "Behold, I have given you every plant yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree with seed in its fruit; you shall have them for food. 30 And to every beast of the earth, and to every bird of the air, and to everything that creeps on the earth, everything that has the breath of life…" (Genesis 1:26-30)
The essence of God, living in us is how we have god-like abilities. Being made in the "image and likeness" of God (Genesis 1:27) allows us to become the adopted sons and daughters of God. As Jesus said when he quoted Psalm 82, "Is it not written in your law, 'I said, you are gods?" (John 10:34).
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