Lack of knowledge on the subject? I don't know where your assumption that I lack knowledge of the nature of souls comes from.
I never stated you lack knowledge of the nature of souls in general. I said that you lacked knowledge of others belief that a soul may be; bartered, sold or given up. I am not here to banter with you, I gave you my opinion, you asked a question and I answered your question. You know, lacking knowledge is not a negative thing....not taking the necessary steps to gain knowledge or making declarations based on a lack of knowledge is negative. It this bothers you, take the steps to change it.
That's why I ASKED the particular person why they believe this notion, but apparently they don't want to tell me.
Your assuming that I don't know about particular belief systems in which this idea exists, and that's why I asked. In reality I asked because I am trying to understand the individuals point of view and not assume they are merely blindly following a dogmatic point of view with no reason rather than to do it.
But apparently since I am asking you to clarify what your opinion is instead of assuming I understand exactly what you mean, you feel I am "Bantering" with you. Would you have instead preferred to have me go on a long diatribe and telling you how I think your dumb in a very stereotypical internet forum like fashion?
Your point makes no sense to me because it seems to revolve on this a notion that is not about FINDING OUT THE TRUTH, rather finding out what ones belief system is. Are you advocating blind faith?
The reason this idea bothers me so much is because the internet is abuzz with bad information. Mix in the extremely fluid and subtle world of the spirit which can creates a gross misunderstanding of how these things work. This can lead to many things such as, people who are new to such things to become afraid and turned off of spiritual things, or become afraid and make their lives harder for themselves out of fear.
So in my mind I am trying to stop the spread of disinformation. But instead of coming out immediately and saying, "hey you can't sell your soul stupid," I asked why the belief existed in the first place,
not on some dogmatic level, rather to the individual person. But since apparently they do not wish to respond then I will show my disagreement.
But instead of ASSUMING I understand or know someone's belief system or why they believe something I will ask them so I can understand where they are coming from. But apparently in your mind since I want to know first hand from people what they think that makes me ignorant.