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Does the Catholic Church teach there is only one person?
No, in fact the Catholic Church teaches no such thing. One approach to seeing this is to understand the way the Church sees the body and soul:
The human person, created in the image of God, is a ...
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Does the Catholic Church teach there is only one person?
The O.P.’s question is not addressed by Church documents, because it is a philosophical one. Nevertheless, based on Church teaching, it is possible to assess the position expressed by the interlocutor....
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Does the Catholic Church teach there is only one person?
Objection 1: Other people are only another physical form of yourself.
Objection 2: There exists only one unposseded [by ego] and indivisible mind.
No, the Catholic Church doesn't believe in this. In ...
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Does the Catholic Church teach there is only one person?
What this "person who has made a few interesting claims" appears to be arguing is the Averroist tenet that there is one collective soul for all humans (i.e., that humans do not have individual souls).
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Is my view of the Trinity accurate, and what is exactly the role of the Holy Spirit
The Trinity declares that there is only the One Being of God. A Divine Being is not to be confused with a human being. Also, God is Spirit. Before Jesus came to earth to born as a human, he existed ...
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Ephesians 2:2, which one comes first in the Calvinist view?
From Calvin's commentary on Ephesians 2:2 :
We may now draw from it also this inference, that ungodly men have no excuse in being driven by Satan to commit all sorts of crimes. Whence comes it that ...
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Where did our spirit come from? (Overview)
The discussion of the origin of the human soul/spirit (on this topic they are generally spoken of as one immaterial part) is a very old one in Christian history. There are many serious implications ...
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Jesus says, that God the Father is a Spirit AND Paul says there is one (1) Spirit. How do trinitarians understand who or what the Holy Spirit is?
Trinitarians understand God to be three persons.
Simply put, Trinitarians understand God to be three persons (the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) with one nature. The Father is God, the Son is ...
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According to the Catholic Church, are there levels of spiritual enlightenment in Christianity?
I believe you are looking for the three ways or states of the spiritual life.
Our process of conversion to Christ is a journey that takes place over the course of a lifetime. You can probably look ...
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In The Nicene Creed is Jesus equal to God the Father?
When the Nicene Creed states that the Son is consubstantial with the Father, it is indeed making the claim that they are equals. In mainstream Christian Theology, Jesus Christ, the God-man, is the ...
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Can the human spirit remember anything without a physical body? (LDS perspective)
Yes it can, in fact every person on Earth had a perfect knowledge of the universe and of the plan of salvation prior to being born into it. It was for this reason that the Earth was created, and the ...
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Can the human spirit remember anything without a physical body? (LDS perspective)
Yes.
Gospel Fundamentals Chapter 35: Life after Death
In the spirit world our spirits will have the same form as when we lived on the earth with bodies of flesh and bones. We will look as we do ...
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According to the Catholic Church, is there any supernatural (non-physical, non-mathematical, non-scientific) part of a human being?
The answer can be found here in the Catechism of the Catholic Church; in particular, it says:
366 The Church teaches that every spiritual soul is created immediately by God - it is not "produced&...
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What is the biblical support for being 'born again' (or' born from above') in this life?
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! According to his great mercy, he has caused us to be born again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, to an ...
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Is my view of the Trinity accurate, and what is exactly the role of the Holy Spirit
Our understanding of God need to go much deeper than that.
Let's not forget that He is the eternal self-existent substance that created the entire expanse of the universe, because, let's face it, ...
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According to the Catholic Church, is there any supernatural (non-physical, non-mathematical, non-scientific) part of a human being?
Breaking down the question first, bear with me.
My previous understanding of the Catholic Church's teaching was that a human being is of two conjoined natures: physical and spiritual.
Glad this was ...
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Does the Catholic Church teach there is only one person?
In addition to the above great answers, I would also like to quote the Fifth Lateran Council, session 8, which for me also seems to oppose such claims:
Consequently, since in our days (which we ...
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Why does the Book of Revelation allocate such a subordinate role to the Holy Spirit?
Subordinate can mean "under the authority of" or it can mean "of lesser value or importance". In this answer I hope to demonstrate that the latter of these two is reasonably ...
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Eastern Orthodoxy: What is the 'nous' and how is it distinguished from your mind and the rest of your spirit?
If you are using the word theologian in the traditional sense, I'm not sure if Frederica Mathewes-Green counts (I won't judge her) but I can tell what she has to say on the topic in Welcome to the ...
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Why is everything created spiritually before physically?
Technically, we are not first created as spirits. This is a simplification. We existed as intelligences, which are not clearly explained, and later formed into our spirits by God.
Man was also in the ...
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Does the Catholic Church teach there is only one person?
Considering the Catholic Church teaches that there are three persons in one God (St. Patrick famously used the three-leaf clover as an analogy), there have to be at least three persons.
I'm not ...
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What is the difference between God and the Spirit of God?
What is the difference between God and the Spirit of God? What is the difference between Christ and the Spirit of Christ? What is the difference between the Father and the Son?
We could go on and on. ...
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Why does the Book of Revelation allocate such a subordinate role to the Holy Spirit?
The claim that the Book of Revelation "allocates a subordinate role to the Holy Spirit" is quite astonishing, given the sixteen times the Spirit of God is detailed in that book. It might be ...
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Jesus says, that God the Father is a Spirit AND Paul says there is one (1) Spirit. How do trinitarians understand who or what the Holy Spirit is?
Jesus says, that God the Father is a Spirit, yet Paul says there is one Spirit. How do trinitarians understand who or what the Holy Spirit is?
The essential elements on the Holy Spirit may be resumed ...
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What is the difference between Soul and Spirit?
Christian theology deals with God's relationship with us and God's work within our soul for our salvation. Christian theology leaves open to philosophical speculation the constitution of our soul and ...
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In The Nicene Creed is Jesus equal to God the Father?
In terms of mainstream Christianity, that is, Trinitarianism, your questions would probably be better answered by referring to the Athanasian Creed (better formatted). Trinitarianism has also ...
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Ephesians 2:2, which one comes first in the Catholic view?
This is Eph 2:1-2, Catholic translation:
You were dead through the trespasses and sins 2 in which you once lived, following the course of this world, following the ruler of the power of the air, ...
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Ghosts Appearing as Children [Latter-day Saint perspective]
I don't know if there is a definitive answer out there. In the gospel fundamentals manual it says:
We are the spirit children of our Father in Heaven. While we lived with Him in heaven as
spirits, ...
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According to Roman Catholicism, are humans the only beings that can be tempted?
The saints are in heaven, and presumably immune from temptation. They "are in glory, contemplating 'in full light, God himself, triune and one, exactly as he is.'" (CCC954)
The angels "...
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Is God ever said to be a "soul" in the Scriptures?
There's a lot of parts to your question. It confuses theology proper with anthropology without explicitly showing the connection. Additionally, you mention a Greek word, which seems to preclude the ...
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