You've heard the phrase guard your soul or God loves your soul or Jesus died to save

your soul.

We toss around this word soul a lot in religious circles.

We have a body, we have a mind, we have emotions, but what is our soul?

So often assume the idea of an eternal non-physical existence that humans living on after

death, apart from their bodies as disembodied souls forever and ever.

That's a really important idea in the Bible or a main teaching of the Bible.

And I certainly thought that till I actually started to read the Bible.

I'm John Collins and this is the Bible Project Podcast.

And today we're going to talk about how you don't have a soul.

But you are a soul.

So Tim and myself and the rest of the Bible Project crew have been making a series of videos

on biblical words.

The word we're working on now is the Hebrew word nefesh, which in our English translations

of the Bible gets translated as soul.

But it is actually hardly ever the meaning of the soul in the Bible.

How do biblical authors use this word nefesh?

What are they imagining and what does it mean for us as humans to be a soul?

Thanks for joining us.

Here we go.

Okay, we are going to talk about the soul.

Yes.

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