In The Bible, " Soul" is translated from the Hebrew ne'phesh and the Greek psy.khe'. Bible usage shows the soul to be a person or an animal or the life that a person or an animal enjoys. To many persons, however, " soul" means the immaterial or spirit part of a human being that survives the death of the physical body. Others understand it to be the principle of life. But these latter views are not Bible teaching.
What does the Bible say that helps us to understand what the soul is?
Genesis 2: 7 reads: "Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul." ( Notice that this does not say that man was given a soul but that he became a soul, a living person ).
When someone says that there are 3'000 souls in this city, our understanding is there are 3'000 people living in the city, which is very much in line with the meaning of the word "Soul".
The scripture that speaks about the "soul " is Ezekiel 18: 4 in these words. " Look! All the souls to me they belong. As the soul of the father so also the soul of the son- to me they belong. The soul who sins is the one who will die." ( Soul = the life of the person ) Ecclesiastes 12: 7 reads. " Then the dust returns to the earth, just as it was, and the spirit (life force or breath of life see Genesis 2: 7) returns to the true God who gave it.
Does conscious life continue for a person after the spirit( the breath of life) leaves the body?
Psalms 146:4 has the answer, in these words." Our spirit ( breath of life ) goes out, we return to the ground; On that very day our thoughts perish.
Our comprehension of the word " soul and spirit " is very important. The "soul" according to the Bible is the living person that we are, and the word "spirit" is the breath of life that Adam had received from God, according to Genesis 2: 7.
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That would be the Book of Malachi.
Genesis
Nowhere.
The Apocalypse is found in the Book of Revelation.
the bible of course
In the book of Psalms
The book of Matthew.
The book of Ruth
Book of phillipians
Book of Genesis
You can find Ruth in the Book of Ruth, which is in the Old Testament of the Bible.
There is nothing confusing about the book of Exodus. This is a story from the Bible.