QUESTIONS AND ISSUES IN BIBLICAL PSYCHOLOGY

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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?



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