Chadd Simpson :
you're mixing greek and Latin. So sticking with Greek, they have 3 forms of like: the software (pysche), the hardware (bios), and the spirit (zoe), which is kindof overlapping with neuma (like nuematic tools, is really jusy breath... so all animals have this "soul," which is most closely related to the software. They fear, love, feel desire, are creative, etc... but both psyche and bios are of this world. What animals dont have is the spirit. The other gods have just spiritual bodies, but not flesh bodies, (but in prehistoric times, as in, before Noah's flood, they actually made demigods by having children with human women, but that was ended with the flood), and then with kinds like simions, they have the physical bodies, but not the spirit. We are also literally made in God's image, the human form, which God has, in The Angel of The Lord, which is NOT a created angel/god, but the Lord God Creator. That's the person of God who submits to being a human, Jesus of Nazareth. So yeah, all creatures have souls, but only the other gods and humans have spirits, and we are literally made in the image of God. Kindof funny how in Greek culture, after of course a telephone game across generations and new languages, beleived it was Pandora who was made by all the gods (not Adam made by The God of gods, and when she opened the box, she lost Zoe, thus all go to hell. They do have the islands of the blessed, which mirrors the old testament times "Abraham Boosom," where People who put their faith in God's redemption plan were held, until Jesus died (who first went to hell after dying on the cross, to collect them), but they are all spiritually asleep until judgement day). It's gone, and it's what purgatory is loosely based on. So I love that you are digging deeper than most, but maybe open your heart to the peace and understanding the only person of God who is here (The [Holy] Spirit), can give you about how we are made in the highest of quality ways, literally made in the image of God.
2025-07-18 18:04:33