Lexical Investigations: Soul mate August 20, 2013 soul mate, soulmate, Buster Keaton, true loveThough the phrase soul mate gained steam toward the end of the twentieth century, the idea goes all the way back to Plato’s Symposium, written in 385–380 BCE. In Symposium, when the two dialogists discuss love, Aristophanes tells Socrates that human beings used to have four arms, four legs, and two faces, and they were happy and complete. But Zeus was jealous and split them in two with his thunderbolt, and now humans spend their lives searching for their other half. This idea of an “other half” has been with us ever since. My Husband Is Not My Soul Mate hardly seems romantic from a wife on her first wedding anniversary, but this viral article set out to challenge common notions about romance, and somewhat surprisingly, Christian counselors agree – God does not have the one, your perfect spouse, eternally chosen from the beginning. A soul mate is not a Christian idea, biblical counselor June Hunt, founder, CEO, and CSO of Hope For The Heart ministries, told The Christian Post on Monday. Rather, an ancient Greek philosopher, Plato, taught that men and women were made in one body, but separated by the gods. Each man and woman scours the earth for their perfect spouse, so the two can again become one, Hunt explained. Phrases like my other half or my better half actually come from this Greek myth, and well-meaning parents pass on the romantic idea to their children. Thought if one person is your soul mate ,than that means when they die you have no right to remarry .
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