What is your concept of the Human Soul?
Most religions have a different concept of what the soul means. Please share your thoughts and conclude if we have one or not.
It exists
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I think that the concept of the human soul exists, simply because humans want it to. Our mind has the capacity to make things real to us, that is why we can believe things with no empirical evidence to support them. Whether or not that soul is eternal is not a question that can be answered, without dying and a recording device somehow attached to the soul going with the soul and being recovered from the ethereal world of the soul. Obviously, not possible^ My claim does not invalidate the idea of the soul, just underlines how undefinable it is. Side: It does`t
I disagree with your concept of what the soul is. First, there shouldn't even be a question whether there is life after death. When a person dies, they are totally dead, cannot think, plan, feel love or hate anymore, and are totally inert. Case closed. The only future life that soul may have is future, and dependent solely on the one that created it in the first place. In other words, the only way a person can have "life after death" is to be resurrected from that death by a force outside themselves. Churches teach that the soul continues to live after death, but that's not what the Bible teaches. It was Satan who said, "you won't die", to Eve, and she bought it. But God warned man that if he disobeyed, he would LOSE HIS LIFE, i.e., NOT BE ALIVE anymore. Once man did not exist, then he was created, and after death, he does not exist anymore. So, between the two, who would you trust? God, or Satan? Since it was God who warned Adam of death for disobedience, and obviously this is what happened, it is the lie/Satan you cannot trust. In Genesis, it is said that when God blew the breath of life into Adam, "he BECAME a LIVING soul." So, the soul includes the fleshly body and all that makes you the personality you are. That, the Bible shows over and over, is SUBJECT TO DEATH. (Ezekiel 18:4) The conclusion of the matter is not whether the soul exists or not--it definitely does--but whether it is subject to death--again, which it obviously is. Side: It exists
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ This link explains the existence of the human soul through Hinduism, the most ancient existing religion. Read and get enlightened, my friend :D Side: It exists
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The reason the soul is virtually ubiquitous within religion is that all religions I've ever heard of offer some kind of commentary on "what happens" after we die. Since there is no empirical reason to believe that anything happens aside from decay, they are forced to construct a supernatural answer, and that ends up being some kind of soul thingy (although the Buddha argued that this whole soul concept is essentially an illusion, given power only by our perceptions and weaknesses.) I won't say the soul definitely does not exist, but I have no proof that it does, no reason to believe in it, and pretty good reasons to believe that it likely emerged out of our fear of death and inability to accept the finite nature of life. Side: It does`t
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