What is the Soul? | My Favorite Verses | Genesis 1.20

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🗓️ 3 May 2021

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You've probably heard people about "what's good for the soul" and "saving the soul," but what does all that really mean? What actually is the soul? Discover how the Bible defines it from https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/staff/patrick-miller/ (Pastor Patrick Miller )as he continues our series on My Favorite Verses with https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Genesis%201%3A20&version=ESV (Genesis 1.20). Interested in more content like this? Check out https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/will-you-ever-find-the-one-questions-youre-asking/ (Will You Ever Find the One?) and https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/podcasts/what-does-saving-the-environment-have-to-do-with-salvation/ (What Does Saving the Environment Have to Do with Salvation?) Like this content? Make sure to leave us a rating and share it with others, so others can find it too. Use #asktmbt to connect with us, ask questions, and suggest topics. We'd love to hear from you! To learn more, visit our https://www.thecrossingchurch.com/ (website) and follow us on https://www.facebook.com/TenMinuteBibleTalks (Facebook), https://www.instagram.com/thecrossingcomo/ (Instagram), and https://twitter.com/tmbtpodcast (Twitter) @TheCrossingCOMO and @TenMinuteBibleTalks. Your support makes TMBT possible. Ten Minute Bible Talks is a crowd-funded project. Join the TMBTeam to reach more people with the Bible. Give now.

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0:00.0	Welcome to 10 minute Bible Talks, where we connect the Bible to your life and the time it takes to get to work.
0:06.5	I'm Keith Simon. And I'm Patrick Miller. We are currently exploring some of our favorite Bible verses and how they've changed our lives.
0:15.0	Also, if you want to connect with us, follow us on Twitter at TMBT Podcast.
0:20.0	You can also check out our hashtag,
0:22.0	hashtag Ask TMBT, where you can ask us anything and we'd love to connect with you.
0:30.0	A few months ago, Disney Pixar released their latest film Soul to rave reviews.
0:35.4	I was not one of those rave reviews.
0:37.3	Now, here's the thing.
0:38.9	My bad review wasn't because I actually watched the movie. It was because I had watched the trailer.
0:45.0	And in the trailer, I saw a pop culture version of what the soul is.
0:50.0	And of course, it's what everybody kind of thinks of as a soul,
0:53.6	some sort of non-material inner nature of a person.
0:57.4	Some sort of non-material part of a person
1:00.4	that defines who he or she really really is.
1:04.0	The soul is the locus of our personality.
1:07.0	It's the heart of our personhood.
1:08.7	It's our immaterial identity.
1:11.2	The soul isn't my body. The soul is me who I really am. Now a friend of mine told me how
1:18.7	dumb I was being. He said look you cannot dislike a movie before you've watched a movie and he was right as it turned
1:25.3	out I loved the movie's soul mostly because it's not a movie about your theology of the soul
1:31.6	it's a movie with a theology of the soul as a little plot device.
1:35.9	So look the movie is not bad but I do think it begs a question. What is the soul?
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