On the Human Soul

The human soul is ‘seed of eternity we bear in ourselves’.  It’s our link to the eternal wonder of God…yet it is not eternal.  Not in the true sense that God is eternal.  God’s eternity means that there was no beginning.  But the soul did have a beginning.  Its beginning was its creation.  God was not created, but simply is.

But still, we have this link implanted in us.  An idea of eternity…a concept that teases our minds, because the truth of eternity is too large for us to grasp. 

The nature of our soul is immortal…meaning it has no end.  Even this cut version of eternity is difficult for us to imagine…and impossible for us fully understand.  

You might have heard some of the many analogies to explain ‘forever’.  Things like: If every leaf from every tree in the world represented one hundred years, then that would be the first day of ‘forever’.  But even these analogies do not make you understand.  They just boggle the mind further. 

You have to wonder why God would give us a property that we can’t comprehend.  We comprehend our hunger, our thirst, and our other desires.  We comprehend our body and most of the physical properties.  We even comprehend our ability to think and feel emotions.  But we cannot comprehend our immortality.

In this, we share in the mystery of God.  We are a reflection of his image.  Or perhaps just a shadow. 

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