Most of your physical senses are attached directly to your brain – sight, sound etc. Other senses, while still attached to your brain, are attached more indirectly – kinesthesia, hunger etc. Your brain gathers information from each of those senses, processes that information and stores some of it – somewhat like a computer. Your brain came equipped with the ability to recognize and respond to patterns in that information. Some of those patterns are learned – social graces, mathematics etc; some are part of the native equipment – reproduction, heart rate etc. Gathering and processing information and responding to the perceived patterns are abilities that vary from one individual to another. Similar abilities are common, to one degree or another, in every organism on the planet. Just how sophisticated those abilities are determines not only the level of intelligence a creature has, but but many of its capabilities. That whole package of abilities represents the invisible part of the creature or its soul. The soul then, determines the behavior of the creature.
It doesn’t matter if the creature is a gnat, a blue whale or even an amoeba, the information processing is just analysis, reaction and storage. It’s not consciousness. It’s not awareness. It’s not life. Those things require a different explanation. But no dictionary has a very adequate definition for life. Such a definition appears to be beyond our grasp. In fact, the only thing we have that comes close to a definition for life is that it is an undefinable gift from a creator God – a mystery. Every creature, then, that has life has received that peculiar attribute from God. How a creature’s soul deals with the information and patterns it collects is called “animal behavior”.
We humans have that same animal behavior. But, we have been given a bit more. The difference that bit makes is enormous. Humans have been given the special ability to communicate with the God that created them. That special bit is the human spirit. The spirit along with an animal nature make up the human soul. That makes the human soul different from the souls of all other creatures.
What does that mean? One thing it means is that unless God chooses to give life to a machine, no robot will ever be able to rise above the level of of its programmer. (John 6:63) Another thing it means is that any human being who does not exercise his or her spirit will function no higher than an animal. (Romans 8:5)
What do you think?
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Each of us is a unique spiritual being. We are born individually, die individually and stand before God every moment of our lives as an individual. No matter how large a group we are in, our relationship with God is one on one. Therefore our worship and each of our styles of worship must be accordingly unique. That concept is developed and expanded in the book “Worshiping Alone” available on Booklocker, Amazon or Barnes and Noble If you haven’t read it, please consider doing so.
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