Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!uupsi!njin!paul.rutgers.edu!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: jclark@sdcc6.ucsd.edu (John Clark) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Not Straight to Heaven - Re: Believers Life after Death Message-ID: Date: 8 May 91 08:24:26 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego Lines: 17 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article emery@tc.fluke.COM (John Emery) writes: + +"As the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without deeds is dead." + (James 2:26) The word in Greek is pneuma, wind, breath. In other words, a body not breathing is dead.(As the body without breath is dead, so...) It would seem the writer is not making a statement about some etheral body, here, but what can be generally observed about the dead person. There are other text which may have a metaphoric use of life's breath, but this one I think is stretching it. -- John Clark jclark@ucsd.edu