If souls are so "immortal", why are they affected so much (i.e. death) by trivial things such as the beating of the heart or electricity running through your brain?
2006-06-15 10:33:19 · 7 answers · asked by braininabox 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
If souls are so "immortal", why are they affected so much (i.e. death) by trivial things such as the beating of the heart or electricity running through your brain?
To elaborate: Why is it that when your heart stops beating, your soul somehow knows to "leave" the body or make some other transition.
2006-06-15 13:39:29 · update #1
Our soul lives in our body, our body is not immortal until we are resurrected. Then we will have bodies of flesh and bone like our Heavenly Father. Did you know your body is just a shell four your spirit? So your body actually looks just like your spirit...neat hu.
2006-06-15 10:37:32 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The question makes no sense. If a soul exists, it would not be affected by the beating of a heart or electricity in the brain. These all affect the physical body. If the heart stops, the body dies. No one ever said anything about the soul being affected by that. If you're going to ask a question like this you need more examples of how a "soul" would be affected by small physical things.
The original Hebrew in the references to the bible in the below response is "naphesh" which basically means "living thing." The same word is used when God was creating the animals, etc. if I recall correctly. So yes, very good point. I was considering making that one but then it wouldn't have answered the question of theoretical soul being affected by physical things, which makes no sense anyway. Going by "soul" meaning "living thing" then obviously a living thing would be affected by life sustaining elements such as the beating of a heart and electricity in the brain.
To answer the "Additional Details" added, if in theory there was an immortal soul, when the body physically died there would be no use for it anymore. Why would a 'soul' stay in a body that can no longer do anything. Otherwise it would be like 'Night of the Living Dead'
2006-06-15 17:56:31 · answer #2 · answered by antisocial1981 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Let's get this straight; you do NOT HAVE a soul, but you ARE a soul.
And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (Gen 2:7)
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam [was made] a quickening spirit. (1Co 15:45 )
A living soul is made by adding the breath of life to the body, but without that breath of life you can consider yourself to be a dead soul.
Very often the Bible makes it seem as if we possess a soul, but when God talks about souls, He is speaking of persons. Another way to look at the usage in the gospels is that the word "soul" is referring to "life", but in the writings of Paul it is used as a reference to a person.
2006-06-15 18:36:18 · answer #3 · answered by Marty 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that there are several types of pain that hurt us emotionally and I think these are the ones that affect the soul. Pain is received only because we have a physical body, but I think if it hurts too much then it affects the soul. So if we didn't have a body then we wouldn't feel pain so our soul wouldn't hurt.
2006-06-15 17:41:31 · answer #4 · answered by Luvfactory 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because everyone else trys to tell us what to do with our "physical bodies" and shame us if we do things that aren't necessarly part of the "mainstream" (which of course is bull-****, but no one will admit to anything)
2006-06-15 17:37:28 · answer #5 · answered by vanessa w 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because everything is energy and our bodies our the principal receptors of positive and negative energy.
2006-06-15 17:37:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
They aren't, souls don't exist.
2006-06-15 17:35:49 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋