02-22-2010, 02:25 AM
(02-22-2010, 12:42 AM)Cyriacus Wrote:(02-18-2010, 12:13 PM)QuisUtDeus Wrote: The next question as to why He doesn't make a soul and ask it if it wants to be incarnate goes back to the first one - what does He do with a soul that doesn't want to go? Well, He won't make it non-existent (see above). So, it could go to a waiting room, but then He's creating souls outside of the contract. Also, the Church condemned the notion of the pre-existence of souls. You also have the problem that the soul doesn't have the experience to decide using informed reason if it should go or not.
The pre-existence of souls was condemned at the Second Council of Constantinople along with broader "Origenism," but I am unclear whether it applies to only the Platonic notion of the soul as eternally pre-existent and essentially uncreated, or to all pre-existence; that is, the soul could not have been created at a prior time and infused in the womb (as is found in Jewish oral teaching).
Could you expand? Clarify? ???