So I looked up the soul, because God apparently has one.

1) soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion

So if I were to just look at the main definition here, (soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion) I can definitely understand the first three, and equate them with God. He has a “self.”

I found “creature” before. This reference I found in Genesis, as I was studying the creation. Person, mind, living being, desire, emotion and passion I can understand and equate with God with no problem.

However, I never would have equated the word “appetite” to God. The reason is because I don’t see us eating in heaven. I recognize grand feast when we the “bride,” meet up with and “marry” the “bridegroom,” Christ. However, I don’t know that I equate that feast on the same level as what we know of as a feast here.

First of all, we will have different bodies; spiritual bodies. We’ll have shed our outer covering of flesh, and the spirit beings that we are shall be seen. We won’t need food as we know it here. So I can only assume that any feast in the heavenlies is a feast of the word, or a spiritual feast of some sort.

So, that being said, I find it hard to equate the word “appetite” with God. The only thing I can connect that word to, is worship. God craves our worship. It is the one thing He requests and requires as a service to Him.

When I think of the appetites of man, all I see is greed and gluttony. But with God, when I think of that word appetite, I only see desire and passion.

a) that which breathes, the breathing substance or being, soul, the inner being of man

That which breathes…Most people don’t think of God as a living, breathing being. He may not have a fleshly body, but there’s more substance to Him than to any of us.

b) living being
c) living being (with life in the blood)

If God has a soul, and this is defined as a living being with life in the blood, then I have to wonder if there is some type of blood within a spiritual being. Not blood as we know it, but some type of blood on a spiritual level. However, this is purely speculation. It could be just that there is a separation of some of these meanings. Some could apply to God, and some could apply to man, and some could apply to both.

However, a thought I have is that God created us after Himself. So far, I’m seeing similarities in the fact that He, like us, has a soul, an appetite, and now I’m wondering…blood.

I never had the connotation that a spiritual being would have any of this, but apparently, He does. I mean, now that I think about it, it seems that God has every quality, characteristic and the same content we have, just in a spirit form versus flesh. What do you think? After all, He created us with all of this, and He made us in His image and likeness.

d) the man himself, self, person or individual
e) seat of the appetites
f) seat of emotions and passions
g) activity of mind
1) dubious

Well, we definitely see evidence of the activity of the mind of God all around us. Our entire environment was the design of the active mind of God. Yet there are those that have doubts about it.

This is why I’ve asked God to ensure the safety of my pets once Christ returns and takes us up. I don’t know for any certainty that they’d be taken as well, although some people have tried to convince me of this. I don’t know of scripture that supports the claim, but I’d like to believe it.

What I do know, is that the animals do have a soul, according to Genesis, because of the same reference to “creature” there. So they too have an active mind.

h) activity of the will
1) dubious

There is no doubt that the God who created our wills and gave us the freedom to use them as we please, has, himself, an active will, which He exerts to accomplish His purposes in our lives.

i) activity of the character
1) dubious

And yes, this living being, God, has activity of the character. This is evidenced by His blessings, provision, and the fact that His promises are true, and He is a God of integrity, who keeps His promises.

Isa 1:14 Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear [them].

So here, it is quite clear that God abhors what they are doing, because He’s so upset by their lack of proper respect and love, that it has irritated Him down to His “soul.”

Weary
1) to be weary, be impatient, be grieved, be offended
a) (Qal) to be weary, be impatient
b) (Niphal) to be tired of something, weary oneself
c) (Hiphil) to weary, make weary, exhaust

This faithless ritual of theirs has so offended Him that He says He is just too tired to put up with them.