Of Soul Food and Baptist Confessions of Faith

Now, therefore, take I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and catch for me game; 4and make for me dainty meats, such as I love and bring in to me, that I may eat,—To the end my soul may bless thee, ere yet I lie!" (Gen. 27:3-4)

Isaac wanted SOUL food.  The terms "soul" and "spirit" have become so intertwined and convoluted that most do not know the difference.  Even Charles Spurgeon used the wrong word when he stated in the Baptist statement of faith that at death,

"The bodies of men after death return to dust, and undergo corruption, but their souls, which neither die nor sleep, having an immortal subsistence, immediately return to God Who gave them.

The scripture reference from Ecclesiastes 12:7 states that it is the SPIRIT, not the soul which returns to God.  There IS a difference.  

Christianity has made the soul immortal, when the scriptures state in Ezekiel 18:20 that the soul that sinneth, shall die.

Isaac, thinking he was near death, wanted comfort.  That is what "soul food" does.  It comforts, appeals to the senses, etc.  and that, is how the scriptures use the term "soul" figuratively.  "Soul" pertains to the senses, to emotion, to the flesh.

Look at the difference between "soul" and "spirit" as described by Paul.  In the KJV and many other translations, "natural" is the word you read, but it is actually the Greek word for "soul".  Check out the passage from 1 Corinthians 15, below in the Rotherham version:

"It is sown a body of the soul, it is raised a body of the spirit; if there is a body of the soul, there is also of the spirit:— 45 Thus, also, it is written—The first man, Adam, became, a living soul, the last Adam, a life-giving spirit. 46 Howbeit, not first, is the [body] of the spirit, but that, of the soul,—afterwards, that of the spirit. 47 The first man, is of the ground, earthy, the second man, is, of heaven: 48 As, the man of earth, such, also, the men of earth, and, as, the man of heaven, such, also, the men of heaven; 49 And, even as we have borne the image of the man of earth, let us also bear the image of the man of heaven. 50 And, this, I say, brethren,—that, flesh and blood, cannot inherit, God’s kingdom. Neither doth, corruption, inherit, incorruption." (1 Cor. 15:44-50)

Worship songs, sermons, etc which elicit an emotional (soulish) response are many times miscalled "spiritual", when they are actually appealing to the emotions and the flesh.