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suggest that the soul will ultimately be like God and transcend both time and space.
The religious understanding of soul might suggest that there is a ‘world soul’ of some sort — of which, individual souls form a part. Or — along similar lines — it might be said that a ‘consciousness’ of some kind — be it spirit, soul or mind — pervades all of matter. We might be happy to call this ’God’, or just ‘the universe’. But God then seems reduced to an abstraction — a Universal Spirit. Such a view might provide us with further explanations of the world. But religious people usually want more from their God than this! They want a bit of interaction with humanity, a bit of involvement with history, even a few miracles. What’s been said so far doesn’t rule God out, but equally it doesn’t tell us anything about Him/Her/It. So let’s turn now to religion itself, to find out more.
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