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[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Did that unknowingly when I was a teen, wondered why it is a he, can't be a she because we are talking about a spirit basically.

[–] Lyrl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (2 children)

Like many languages, languages of the Bible like Hebrew and Greek have grammatical genders. The aspect of God that smites things is grammatically male. The aspect of God that conveys spiritual strength - usually translated as "the Holy Spirit" - is grammatically female. Progressive movements of Protestantism and Judaism see God as both genders: one of the two creation stories in Genesis states God created man AND woman in God's image. The focus on the male aspect of God, and the second creation story in Genesis with the rib thing, is a conservative movement hang-up and not a general religion thing.

[–] WorldsDumbestMan@lemmy.today 6 points 3 weeks ago

Of course the male part just smites things...

[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

In his image, is a spiritual image. He gave us a rational soul.

[–] SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Spirits and souls are not real.

Try to develop a rational mind, please, your cult is killing us.

[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

they are

[–] SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

All you do to others is "source?" "verses?"

And yet when you make a claim, you provide absolutely nothing.

There is no evidence supporting what you are saying.

[–] IAMgROOT@lemmy.wtf 0 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/biocentrism/201112/does-the-soul-exist-evidence-says-yes

[–] SnoopSqueak@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago

Pseudoscience. At least they try to define "soul":

It's said to be the ultimate animating principle by which we think and feel but isn't dependent on the body.

They are referring to consciousness, which is dependent on the body (or at least the brain).

Yet, the current scientific paradigm doesn't recognize this spiritual dimension of life.

Right. Because there is no evidence for it.

It's considered the incorporeal essence of a person and is said to be immortal and transcendent of material existence.

Psycho shit.

Everything knowable about the "soul" can be learned by studying the functioning of the brain. In their view, neuroscience is the only branch of scientific study relevant to understanding the soul.

Right... because souls don't exist. They are describing consciousness.

While neuroscience has made tremendous progress illuminating the functioning of the brain, why we have a subjective experience remains mysterious.

Does it? Our subjective experience is part of the illusion of consciousness.

This is god of the gaps, but for souls.

Although the current scientific paradigm is based on the belief that the world has an objective observer-independent existence, real experiments suggest just the opposite.

Oh no. Time to misunderstand quantum mechanics.

Until observed, they have no real existence; only when the mind sets the scaffolding in place, can they be thought of as having duration or a position in space.

Wrong. It likely has nothing to do with a mind. The honest answer is that we don't know yet: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double-slit_experiment#Interpretations_of_the_experiment

The results not only defy our classical intuition but suggest that a part of the mind — the soul — is immortal and exists outside of space and time.

"The hope of another life," wrote Will Durant, "gives us courage to meet our own death, and to bear with the death of our loved ones; we are twice armed if we fight with faith."

And we are thrice armed if we fight with science.

Faith is a failure to perform science. This article is just more human wishful thinking. They haven't proven a soul, they've leapt to a conclusion despite a lack of evidence.