[Vision2020] Animal Souls in the Bible

[Andreas Schou]

All --

I think I screwed up which was nephesh and which was ruah. I have
since corrected myself and will stop spouting off about languages I
don't speak.

-- ACS

On 11/17/06, Andreas Schou <ophite at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 11/17/06, nickgier at adelphia.net <nickgier at adelphia.net> wrote:
> > Hail to the Vision!
> >
> > Thanks to Ralph Nielsen for the Bible lesson.  He is soooo good at it.
> >
> > As I have argued in my article "Hebrew and Buddhist Selves," the Hebrews had one of the most materialistic view of the soul in the ancient world.
> >
> > The Bible also teaches that animals have souls (Heb.nephesh; Gk. psyche). Ralph is also right: the Hebrew Bible teaches that those souls all go to the same place after death: Sheol, the Hebrew equivalent of Hades.
>
> Nick --
>
> My understanding was that animals have a certain type of spirit (Heb.
> ruah; Gk pneuma) but not reason, which they called 'nephesh'. Do you
> have a scriptural cite for this?
>
> -- ACS
>