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What is the difference between heart, mind, and soul?


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LK 10:27 And he answering said, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy strength, and with all thy mind; and thy neighbour as thyself.

 

I'm guessing "strength" is probably a reference to our physical abilities, though I'm open to a more spiritualized interpretation, like strength of character/will.  But, what about heart, soul, and mind? 

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49 minutes ago, Endtime_Survivors said:

  But, what about heart, soul, and mind? 

In this context heart represents emotions, soul represents the will, and mind represents thoughts or the thought-life. Our thoughts, our emotions, and are wills must all be entirely focused on the love of God, which translates into the obedience of God's and Christ's commandments.

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13 minutes ago, Ezra said:

In this context heart represents emotions, soul represents the will, and mind represents thoughts or the thought-life. Our thoughts, our emotions, and are wills must all be entirely focused on the love of God, which translates into the obedience of God's and Christ's commandments.

Quite right :D

The expression taken as a whole is meant to encompass the whole of our being - everything that we are is to love the Lord our God. 

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Good answers.

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On 7/29/2016 at 11:13 AM, Ezra said:

In this context heart represents emotions, soul represents the will, and mind represents thoughts or the thought-life. Our thoughts, our emotions, and are wills must all be entirely focused on the love of God, which translates into the obedience of God's and Christ's commandments.

That's a good answer, but I wonder about the "heart" part.  Why should the heart be associated with emotions?  And if the heart is deceitful above all things, how does that fit in?

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1 hour ago, Endtime_Survivors said:

That's a good answer, but I wonder about the "heart" part.  Why should the heart be associated with emotions?  And if the heart is deceitful above all things, how does that fit in?

As James tells us, sin begins with lusts, and lusts are essentially desires. A desire is an emotion, and the heart is deceitful because emotions can cloud the mind.  Most decisions are not strictly rational, and more so for women than for men.

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