{"id":60727,"date":"2023-05-08T12:20:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T17:20:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=60727"},"modified":"2023-05-08T12:41:08","modified_gmt":"2023-05-08T17:41:08","slug":"4-reasons-why-i-write-about-embodied-souls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/?p=60727","title":{"rendered":"4 Reasons Why I Write About \u201cEmbodied-Souls\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A Word from Bob<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Someone recently thanked me for my posts on\u00a0<strong>embodied-souls (God designed us as a complex union of body and soul)<\/strong>. Then they asked if I would share what motivates my interest in <strong>embodied-souls and biblical counseling<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Good question.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ll share four main reasons for my interest in embodied-souls and biblical counseling, but first some background\u2026<\/p>\n<p> <strong>What Do We Mean by \u201cEmbodied-Soul\u201d?<\/strong><strong>\u00a0<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>Many theologians use the term \u201cembodied soul\u201d (which I tend to hyphenate as \u201cembodied-soul). What do we mean by this and where do we find this perspective in Scripture?<\/p>\n<p>From the very beginning, God designed us as a complex, comprehensive union of body and soul\u2014embodied-soul.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">\u201cThen the Lord God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being\u201d (Genesis 2:7).<\/p>\n<p>For 112 biblical passages on how God designed us, see: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/rpmministries.org\/2023\/03\/112-biblical-passages-on-being-embodied-souls\/\">112 Biblical Passages on Being Embodied-Souls<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>God did <strong>not<\/strong> design us only as physical bodies.<\/p>\n<p>God did <strong>not<\/strong> design us only as non-physical souls.<\/p>\n<p>God did <strong>not<\/strong> design us as two un-united substances that do not interact and interrelate\u2014body <strong>and<\/strong> soul.<\/p>\n<p>God designed us as complex body\/soul beings\u2014embodied-souls. We are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What motivates my interest in and writings about embodied-souls and biblical counseling?<br \/>\nThe post 4 Reasons Why I Write About \u201cEmbodied-Souls\u201d appeared first on RPM Ministries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":60729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[6],"tags":[5329],"class_list":["post-60727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rpm-ministries-bob-kellemen","tag-embodied-souls","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/biblicalcounselor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/cropped-RPM-Ministries-Logo-Square-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60727"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60727\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60730,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60727\/revisions\/60730"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biblicalcounselor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}