Unlimited souls??

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I was wondering about something. I suppose the human mind simply cannot comprehend certain things.

God creates our souls and then gives us human life on Earth right? So he keeps making new souls constantly, why? Would hell/heaven get full?

He creates souls for the animals too unlimited?

I'm not sure if I'm wording this very well or not lol.

Wondering if the bible says anything about this or simply the personal opinions of fellow Christians :)
 
I was wondering about something. I suppose the human mind simply cannot comprehend certain things.
Until God chooses to causes us to comprehend. We do not comprehend God at all, until He reveals Himself to us, according to Christ the Lord.
God creates our souls and then gives us human life on Earth right? So he keeps making new souls constantly, why? Would hell/heaven get full?
Certainly not. God is not limited.
He creates souls for the animals too unlimited?
Yep. We have very little information from Him about the souls of animals, but we indeed do have it written, in the Hebrew of early Genesis, that animals are defined as having living souls. You may encounter many traditionalists who cannot stand it, including those who claim that the King James version is always right; do be careful. In Genesis 1:24, common translation says "living creature", but there is no word having to do with the verb "creation" there; it's "soul".
I'm not sure if I'm wording this very well or not lol.

Wondering if the bible says anything about this or simply the personal opinions of fellow Christians :)
You're doing rather well I'll think!
 
God creates our souls and then gives us human life on Earth right? So he keeps making new souls constantly, why? Would hell/heaven get full?
He is apparently creating enough souls for how many people there will be. Once Jesus comes back, there will be no more people being born, so the number of souls is limited.

The early Church fathers debated about how God creates souls. In Genesis 2:2 it says that God ceased from all His creation work. Thus God does not create things out of nothing anymore.
Some people thought that when a woman gets pregnant, God creates a soul out of nothing right then and there for the new person.
Some used the Genesis 2:2 passage to say He doesn't do that - He finished His creation work. So they said that God by omniscience or foreknowledge knew how many souls He would need and thus, He create all of them on the days of creation, and now they are just sitting around waiting to be put in a body. Some jokingly refereed to this as a "soul bank."

Others said that somehow the soul comes from the physical/mystical interaction of the sperm and egg at the time of conception. This way the whole human race is one race - we are all connected somehow and this doesn't violate Genesis 2:2

It appears that in the New Heavens and New Earth, the population will be static. No births and no deaths. Same thing with Hell.
 
So he keeps making new souls constantly,

God wrapped His creation labors at the end of the sixth day and went on a
sabbatical.

The seventh day isn't bounded by an evening and a morning like all the six days
before it, which strongly suggests to me that God's sabbatical has not yet ended for
Him to return to work and pick up where He left off. (cf. Heb 4:4-10)

The thing is: God created only one human soul directly from dirt in all those six
days and He hasn't created any additional human souls since then, viz: Adam's life
is the only human life we know of, and it is a transferable kind of life so that God
need not lend a hand for each baby's conception.

For example: Eve was constructed with material taken from Adam's body. In other
words: Eve didn't get her life from God, instead, she got her life from Adam. What
I'm saying is: God doesn't make new souls constantly, no, Adam's family has been
doing it for themselves all along via the blessing of fertility. (Gen 1:27-28)


Would hell/heaven get full?

Those are supernatural locations whose dimensions, to my knowledge, have never
been given.

However, the cosmos is continually expanding in all directions in accord with
something called the Hubble Constant. Well; in my opinion if the cosmos is
expandable, then it's reasonable to posit that Heaven and Hell might be expandable
too so that no matter how many souls the human race manages to produce, there will always be room enough to accommodate them.
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Ecc 3:1 To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
Ecc 3:2 A time to be born, and a time to die;

When scripture declares that for everything there is a time and season to be born and to die, this can mean how we walk in this life here on earth through all the trials and tribulations this sin laden world throws at us. This is all allowed by God with great purpose that our faith will not be wavered and we stand strong in the Lord. Only God knows who are His own.

Romans 8 is all about our life in the Spirit as nothing can separate us from the love of God as no one can limit His love.

Rom 8:38 For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Rom 8:39 Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Who are we to limit anything that God has done for His purpose under heaven, especially within the Spiritual things we can not always comprehend.

2Peter 3:9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
2Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
2Peter 3:11 Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,
2Peter 3:12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
2Peter 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

Gen 1:27 So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Gen 1:28 And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Rev 4:11 Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.

Gen 6:3 And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

Gen 6:5 And GOD saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Gen 6:6 And it repented the LORD that he had made man on the earth, and it grieved him at his heart.
Gen 6:7 And the LORD said, I will destroy man whom I have created from the face of the earth; both man, and beast, and the creeping thing, and the fowls of the air; for it repenteth me that I have made them.
Gen 6:8 But Noah found grace in the eyes of the LORD.

The big question is, are we finding grace in the eyes of the Lord?
 
Wondering if the bible says anything about this or simply the personal opinions of fellow Christians :)
The bible does talk about the creation of life, in Genesis chapter 1+ 2.

In ch 1, it says God created all living things.
In ch 2 it says that God breathed life into man.gen 2:7 from the amplified bible.
— 7 then the Lord God formed [that is, created the body of] man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and the man became a living being [an individual complete in body and spirit].
This is not said of animals.
Read the chapters yourself and see, use biblegateway and you can check over 20 different Bible versions.

Will heaven ever get full? NO. How does one fill infinity with what is finite?
 
I need to clarify what I posted in post #5.

Ecclesiastics 3:1-2 says there is a time to be born and a time to die. We can't limit this.

In the OP a question was asked, why does God keep on making new souls as would hell and heaven get full?

I took this in a direction that we can not limit God and His purpose for all He has, and will continue to create, but also to show that God is not limited in His mercy and grace either.

Since this thread was made back in April 6, 2023 this member has not been here for quite a while and probably will never respond. That's what happens with old threads as people come and go.
 
I am sorry my post #5 made you angry. Can you and I discuss how this made you angry?

My angry emogee was relative to PrimFinallyFoundGod's questions. But seeing as how
they haven't even been seen on CF dot net since Dec 14, 2023, it doesn't matter
anymore.
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