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Since the phrases "soul sleep" or "soul death" do not occur either in the Bible or in early Patristic materials, an explanation is required for the origin of the term. [citation needed] Additionally, several other terms have been introduced which relate to the view.
It is believed that God eventually will reclaim the zombie's soul, so the zombie is a temporary spiritual entity. [19] The two types of zombie reflect soul dualism, a belief of Bakongo religion and Haitian voodoo. [20] [21] Each type of legendary zombie is therefore missing one half of its soul (the flesh or the spirit). [22]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 3 March 2025. This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources. The Last Judgment by painter Hans Memling. In Christian belief, the Last Judgement is an apocalyptic event where God makes a final ...
Faustina also claimed to have seen Catholic nuns in hell for breaking their vows of silence, [32] as well as souls whom God had marked for great holiness. [33] She further claimed that Jesus told her that, when a sinner repents of sin, Satan flies away to the bottom of hell in fear, [ 34 ] and that, when a soul is damned, it plunges Jesus into ...
According to Genesis 2:7 God did not make a body and put a soul into it like a letter into an envelope of dust; rather he formed man's body from the dust, then, by breathing divine breath into it, he made the body of dust live, i.e. the dust did not embody a soul, but it became a soul – a whole creature. [7]
Victim soul status is a matter of private revelation unlike dogmas; therefore, individual believers are not required to accept, as part of the Catholic faith, the legitimacy of any particular person for whom such a claim is made, nor the genuineness of any miraculous claims that have been made in connection with such a person. [2]
And these spirits shall rise up against the children of men and against the women, because they have proceeded from them. From the days of the slaughter and destruction and death of the giants, from the souls of whose flesh the spirits, having gone forth, shall destroy without incurring judgement. —I Enoch 15:8–12, 16:1 R. H. Charles
The Roman Catholic Church has often held mortification of the flesh (literally, "putting the flesh to death"), as a worthy spiritual discipline. The practice is rooted in the Bible: in the asceticism of the Old and New Testament saints, and in its theology, such as the remark by Saint Paul, in his Epistle to the Romans, where he states: "If you live a life of nature, you are marked out for ...