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Greetings, Reformed Superfriends!
The moment you talked about the origin of the soul was quite interesting. I never heard about traducionism vs creationism. It seems that there’s a third view called pre-existence that comes more from Plato than scripture, I really don’t know, I went to search on the internet (as anyone else in my age would do :’)). What boggles my mind is that, thinking about dichotomy (tough I was raised in a widely trichotomic tradition, pentecostalism to be precise) if spirit and soul stands for the same thing than, it seems clear from Ecc 12: 7
“Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it. (NKJV)”
that it comes from God. Can I receive a little hand here? I searched on the heidelblog about it, but couldn’t find much.
Sorry if the text is not quite well written, any corrections, please comment, it is quite hard to think/write in a foreign language.
Thanks in advance,
God bless the wonderful work of the HRA,
João de Sousa Luz
João
The pre-existence of the soul is a pagan view, usually attributed by the Fathers of the church to Plato. Origen was condemned in AD 553 in part for adopting this view. It is a heresy because it makes the soul co-eternal with God and is thus, at bottom, polytheism.
On trichotomy see: Reformed Basics On Dichotomy And Trichotomy