Bells,
Jim Jones was an atheist.
Bells, stop digressing.
When you visualise in your mind an apple, is there an actual apple in your head?
Good question. Maybe you should attempt to find the answer.
How do you know there is no God (appreciate the upper-case distinction)?
You really should calm down. Thus far you've simplified and trashed two or three serious genres.
Like I intimated, the ancient greeks weren't as adept in this subject matter as other cultures,
That's one possibility of what constitutes the soul.
Do you have any others?
You make it sound like theism is some sort of club or organisation.
jan.
When Jim Jones gave nearly 1000 people poison laced Cool Aid, he was doing God's work? His soul made him do it on God's orders as he claimed at the time?
Jim Jones was an atheist.
If you do not believe your brain directs your thoughts, then who does? God? In that case, each time someone kills and says 'God made me do it', then they speak the truth, correct? Or does God only appear to direct one's thoughts when you want him to?
Bells, stop digressing.
So what directs your thoughts? If you hear a voice in your head telling you to kill your family, will you think it is your God given soul? Or will you think you are mentally ill and in need of psychiatric help?
When you visualise in your mind an apple, is there an actual apple in your head?
What is your soul?
Good question. Maybe you should attempt to find the answer.
Your immortal essence that rises to heaven on your death? Do you think that is what governs your thoughts and makes you who you are? There is no heaven. Just as there is no God.
How do you know there is no God (appreciate the upper-case distinction)?
If you believe your psyche is your soul, therefore you don't think mental illness exists, correct?
You really should calm down. Thus far you've simplified and trashed two or three serious genres.
Since if one's psyche - ie one's mind - is ill, then it means their soul, what makes them a part of the divine connection to God, that is ill. Since there is no God, believing in a soul makes you... delusional? Which can be inherited, which makes it biological.
Like I intimated, the ancient greeks weren't as adept in this subject matter as other cultures,
Ergo, like for my example to Jan above. If someone hears voices that tells them to kill others, is it their soul? If they believe they hear voices from God, by your reckoning and by Jan's, then they hear God. Since your psyche and your soul is your connection to God, correct? So lets say you hear voices in your head, or your psyche hears voices telling you that it is God and that you must kill others. It is your soul. Does that make you mentally ill? If there is a history of schizophrenia in your family, does it make you divine? Or is it an inherited trait which you have unfortunately inherited which means it is biological?
That's one possibility of what constitutes the soul.
Do you have any others?
One of the irony's of theists is how quick they are to distance themselves from people who claim to be carrying out God's will as they believe they have been ordered to by God and instead, you all argue that they must be mentally ill because what they claim cannot be true. Yet you are all so quick to argue souls are real and that your psyche is your soul and your thoughts and beliefs stem from your soul.
You make it sound like theism is some sort of club or organisation.
jan.