Hi Brett,
The answer that Ray gave, in the e-mail,
indicated to me that we will remember the people in our lives.
I feel pretty certain myself that we will remember the people we have known in this life.
This is from Ray's second letter to James Kennedy.
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The "soul" is the seat of sensation, consciousness, and feelings, not the body or the spirit. It is the spirit that imparts life to the body and the body then becomes a living soul (Gen. 2:7).
A thorough study of the word "soul" in the Scriptures proves that it is used of consciousness, feelings, and emotions. Hence, "sensation" is a good word to define its usage.
� souls can touch (Lev. 5:2)
� souls have knowledge (Pr. 2:10)
� souls have
memory (Lam. 3:20)
� souls can love, and be joyful (Psa. 35:9; 86:4)
� souls can hunger and thirst (Deut. 14:26)
� souls can sin (Lev. 4:2)
� life can be given to a soul (Job 3:20)
� souls can die (Ezek. 18:20)
� souls can be converted (Psa. 19:7)
� none can keep alive his (own) soul (Psa. 22:29)
� honey is sweet to the soul (Pr. 16:24)
� even God has a soul (Lev. 26:11, I Sam. 2:35, Jer. 32:41)
� souls can hear (Acts 3:22-23)
� souls can experience pleasure (Heb. 10:3)
� souls can be purified (I Pet. 1:22)
� and souls can receive salvation (I Pet. 1:9).
These verses show the wide range of emotions and sensations that "souls" experience,
And the soul has everything to do with perception and sensation as clearly seen from the verses above.
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Lam 3:20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.
Lam 3:21 This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope.
We have experiences that build character, these are the good works that will remain.
1Co 3:13 the work of each will be revealed; for the Day will make it known, because it is revealed in fire; and the fire will prove the work of each, what sort it is.
1Co 3:14
If the work of anyone which he built remains, he will receive a reward.
The good works, of course, are the works that Christ is doing in us.
I just think we could not separate the lessons we have learned in this life,
from the people involved.
We will be in the family of God in the kingdom, and those relationship are being developed now.
Eph 2:19 Now therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints, and of the household of God,
So that's the way I see this.
mercy, peace, and love
Kat