Sometimes comes that rare moment when he feels the absolute freedom of the soul from what is happening. In “War and peace” Leo Tolstoy described the scene when Pierre Bezukhov was taken as a prisoner of the French. His position was hopeless, his shot – and in that moment, he suddenly experiences the feeling of absolute freedom.
Pierre feels the sense that he possesses an immortal soul. And he laughs. The whole situation seemed ridiculous. “I want to kill? My immortal soul?” – thinks Pierre.
If you’re confident in the immortality of your soul, then you are not “trembling creature”, you are eternity itself. And death to you it seems stupid and not a scary grim Reaper. Above it is possible to mock even in the shower.
A person who believed in the immortality of the soul can cry happy tears. But for this we must be ready to find a place in his inner world for this Supreme truth, the old truth that transcends any political and cosmic cataclysms. Link to http://www.olgasedakova.com/Moralia/280
Old REALLY old as Socrates, who argued, based on even more ancient doctrine that “souls, departed from here, are in Hades and come back here, arising from the dead”. As the opposite of the opposite. Link to http://grani.roerich.com/plato/txt/phaedo2.htm
And dohodchevo explains this with examples, coming to the conclusion that “living arose from the dead is no different than the dead from the living.” And that arise the opposites continually balance one another, as if describing a circle.
Our soul existed before we were born. And when we die it will exist no worse than before our birth. Socrates cites other evidence of this.
Socrates, sentenced to death, not fear it. On the eve of death philosophizes with friends, in prison, writes poetry, composes fables!
“The wise man dies willingly, because he hoped by the death to achieve true life.”
At the same position and stood the great Greek philosopher Plato (430-348 BC). “The eternity of the soul,” he says, ” is the condition of possibility of true knowledge, and back – validity of cognition is the basis from which more and more positive just to ensure the eternity of the soul.”
Now let us turn to the Bible. What is said in the Book of books about the immortality of the soul? What she could to comfort me? The Scriptures tell us that the soul is not immortal. The Bible says that the soul can die. This was written by the prophet Ezekiel: “the Soul that sinneth, it shall die”. And that is not sin? The Bible can be found the expression “dead soul,” which means the corpse.
And in the grave “there is no joy, nor intentions, nor knowledge, nor wisdom” is as true as the fact that after death the body turns to dust (Ecclesiastes 9:10). Dead soul is in a state of inactivity. But we can be sure that our deceased loved ones do not suffer. The Bible still leave us hope that in the future Jehovah will Wake the sleeping dead sleep, returning them life (Acts 24:15).
The ancient philosophy about the immortality of the soul I almost cuter materialist Bible in this regard.
