Hey, this is John at the Bible Project.

Today on the podcast, we're having a Q&R question response on Mephesh.

A few months ago, we released a video and some corresponding podcasts talking about the

Hebrew word Mephesh.

So in Hebrew, the word Mephesh, originally and most basically meant your throats.

But in our English Bible, the word Mephesh often gets translated as life, or often as

soul.

So how do we get the word soul from a word that originally meant throat?

That's a long conversation.

It involves Greek platonic philosophy, how the King James Bible impacted our culture and

the difficulty of understanding biblical context and nuance.

And we have a lot of podcasts talking about that.

A couple key takeaways though.

According to biblical authors, we don't have a soul.

We are a soul, a living, breathing Mephesh.

And secondly, the biblical hope is that God will one day sustain our Mephesh beyond death,

so that we can enter a renewed creation in a physical embodied state.

As you can imagine, this topic is a bit of a mind vendor for everyone, including me.

So today, Tim and I respond to your questions about Mephesh, the soul, and the afterlife.

Thanks for joining us.

Here we go.

Okay, here we are.

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