What do Christians teach about the soul and what happens to it after death?

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What do Christians teach about the soul and what happens to it after death? The soul is the immaterial part of a person. It is usually thought to consist of thoughts and personality, and can be identical with the spirit, mind or self. In theology, the soul is often believed to live on after the person’s death, and some religions posit that God creates souls.                         The belief that we composed of both body and soul is known by philosophers as “dualism”. The Bible takes this view point, every human is a union of “soma” which means body and “psyche” which means soul. The soul
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is a spiritual, non-physical thing. Soma and psyche are separate things, the Bible teaches that in each of us humans, they are strongly connected and tied into each other, such that only death can separate them.                                                                Christianity teaches that we will be resurrected by God after we die. It does not teach that the soul goes to heaven and the body decays into nothingness. This is not what Christianity teaches but this is the idea taught by the ancient Greek philosopher Plato.”It is sown a physical body, it is raised a spiritual body “This is the Christians view point made ...

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