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Does the soul Age?

 While it might be unwise to say the soul ages, it might be wiser to say the soul matures with age. The longer we live, the more things we experience. The soul retains all of our experiences in life, and through memory can replay those experiences. When we experience something happy, the soul remembers it, so in a way we can say the soul is shaped by the good and not so good experiences in life. The human soul has the capacity to experience and understand God, and this is what makes us different from other living beings like plants, and animals. 


When the soul learns new things, it creates new memories and new experiences, so this would be the closest thing to it aging. Although it is proper to say that when we are in a physical body, the person is a whole being only as a body and a soul, so in this sense, the whole person ages. A human being isn’t just a soul or a body, they are both. So what happens at death is an unnatural experience because the soul is separated from the body. This is why for the Christian to be whole again, there must be a resurrection from the dead, because a person’s soul is only made complete when it is united to it’s body.


Will the soul and body age after the resurrection? Yes and no, because we will be in eternity, time won’t affect our bodies in the same way that time affects the body now. Because our souls are regenerate or born again, we will have fellowship with God forever, but the age of our souls will probably be the same age they are now, or will be at the Second Coming of Jesus Christ. When we leave this world in death, our souls await the resurrection if we are saved, and will reunite with our bodies at the rapture.


While living this life and even at death, we must all remember that our souls belong to our bodies, and even though we are separated from our bodies at death, our faith and the Bible teaches us that one day we will be made whole again in the first resurrection. This is Mike.


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