The biggest challenge to my faith is the seeming randomness of everything.

Some are born into the lap of luxury while others are born into unspeakable misery. Wonderful people suffer unbelievable tragedy, while complete monsters live the life of Riley. King David also had these though when he would pen, "Why do the wicked prosper while the righteous perish.? " These things do no destroy my faith, and it is an age old question. I'm just saying it's the one thing that I haven't had a totally satisfactory answer about. Perhaps bloated skeleton in the horn of Africa goes to such bliss, that his or her afterlife is actually worth the suffering and misery they experience on earth.

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TheRascallyOne · 31-35, M

You shouldn't worry too much about bodies human its the soul that lives forever

cherokeepatti · 61-69, F

@TheRascallyOne truth

puck61

@TheRascallyOne It's the spirit that lives forever, in my opinion, of course. The soul is corruptible whereas the spirit is incorruptible. At least that is the doctrine I ended up favoring most. However under spiritual awaking the soul becomes beneficial to the body and spirit, and the threefold nature of my sould aligns with the threefold nature of God.
I see the soul as being the realm of passion, and creativity, and there are things we can do to damage it. Like I said though, that does not necessarily make another doctrine less valid.