Questions for reflection and that deal with the issues of Biblical Psychology
Please feel free to email me and submit any suggested questions that you are aware of along the lines of these issues (see below)
General Issues
How should we understand
ourselves as Christians ?
Are we more than just
a body?
What does the Bible say
about what parts make us up as human beings?
Does the Bible teach
that there is a soul part of the human being as distinct from the body?
What does the Bible teach
that a soul is?
How does man as a being
relate to the spiritual realms or dimensions?
How does Man relate to
God?
What happens to us when
we are born again?
When we are Ressurected
will we remember what we did on earth?
What happens to us when
we die?
What happens to our consciousness
when we die?
What is the soul?
Tripartite Issues
If there are 2 parts besides
the body as those who hold the 3 part views maintain,
then what is a spirit
as distinct from the soul, what is it ie what is it's nature and characteristics?
If the 3 part views are
correct then how do the spirit and soul relate to one another?
Does the soul exist in
the body or the spirit part of the human or in both during life and only
the spirit part at death?
Afterlife Issues
What form do people take
when they die?
Will we remember what
we did during this life after death?
Will we be conscious
and be able to think in the afterlife?
What is the nature of
our experience of the Intermediate State prior to the Resurrection?
What happens to the human
being when he or she dies?
What is a person's experience
in the afterlife like?
What will we look like
in the Resurrection? Will we look like mature adults in the prime of our
lives or some other way? Ie how will those who died as infants appear?
Does the body look like
the spirit part?
Soul/Mind - Brain Issues
what is the relationship
between the soul and the body?
what is the relationship
between personality and the soul?
Words, Meanings and Scripture
What do Hebrew terms like
Nephesh, Leb, Lebab, and Basar mean in the contexts in which they occur
in the Old Testament Scriptures?
What do Greek terms like
Pneuma, Psuche, Soma and Sarx mean in the contexts in which they occur
in the Septuagint and the New Testament Scriptures?
Functions of the different parts
Is conscience a part of
the spirit or the soul?
Is consciousness and
human ability to be aware or to direct attention an attribute of the soul
or spirit part of the human being?