What's a soul?

Question

Where does it come from? When do you get it? Where is it physically located? When you have a soul-mate, does that mean that your souls are conjoined? Does mold have a soul? What about plants? Do "lower" animals have souls? What if you get a soul, but don't want one? When you're done with your soul do you have to give it back? How many souls are there? Can you sell a soul (i.e., on eBay)?

Answer 1

First of all, you do not have and immortal soul, if you did, then why had no one gone to Heaven before Jesus came to the Earth, 4000 years had came & gone since Adam & Eve, millions of people had died, what did Jesus say to a man of the Pharisees, Nic·o·de'mus was his name, a ruler of the Jews.

John 3:13
Moreover, no man has ascended into heaven but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man.

What is a Soul?
Right in the very first book of the Bible, Genesis, we are told that the soul is not something you have, it is something you are. We read of the creation of Adam, the first human being: “The man came to be a living soul.” (Genesis 2:7) The Hebrew word used here for soul, ne'phesh, occurs well over 700 times in the Hebrew Scriptures, never once conveying the idea of a separate, ethereal, spiritual part of man. On the contrary, the soul is tangible, concrete, physical.

Look up the following cited texts in your own copy of the Bible, for the Hebrew word ne'phesh is found in each of them. They clearly show that the soul can face risk, danger, and even be kidnapped (Deuteronomy 24:7; Judges 9:17; 1 Samuel 19:11); touch things (Job 6:7); be locked up in irons (Psalm 105:18); crave to eat, be afflicted by fasting, and faint from hunger and thirst; and suffer from a wasting disease or even insomnia as a result of grief. (Deuteronomy 12:20; Psalm 35:13; 69:10;) In other words, because your soul is you, your very self, your soul can experience anything you can experience.

Does that mean, then, that the soul can actually die? Yes. Far from being immortal, human souls are spoken of in the Hebrew Scriptures as being “cut off,” or executed, for wrongdoing, being struck fatally, murdered, destroyed, and torn to pieces. (Exodus 31:14; Deuteronomy 19:6; 22:26; Psalm 7:2) “The soul that is sinning—it itself will die,” says Ezekiel 18:4. Clearly, death is the common end of human souls, since all of us sin. (Psalm 51:5) The first man, Adam, was told that the penalty for sin was death—not transfer to the spirit realm and immortality. (Genesis 2:17) And when he sinned, the sentence was pronounced: “For dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:19) When Adam and Eve died, they simply became what the Bible often refers to as ‘dead souls’ or ‘deceased souls.’

Answer 2

This would all depend on the person's beliefs on how the answer the question. Here is what I believe:

I believe that when you take your first breath is when your soul enters your body. I think it came from heaven. Your soul is your personality, your consience, your feelings, your body is just your shell. I believe that each of us a a half of a soul, and when we find our soul mate the two souls come together a complete each other. I dont believe that mold or any plants have souls, but I do believe that animals have souls. Everyone has a soul, regardless if you want one or not. Your soul is what makes you you, to me, it is your body that you have to give back (to the earth), not the soul. No one knows just how many souls there are, but I think tons and tons and tons. I dont believe that you can sell a soul.

Answer 3

The original-language terms(Heb.,ne'phesh;Gr., psy khe')
as used in the Scriptures show "soul" to be a person,an animal,or the life that a person or animal enjoys.
The connotations that the English "soul" commonly carries in the minds of most persons are not in agreement with the meaning of the Hebrew and Greek words as used by the inspired Bible writers.This fact has steadly gained wider acknowledgment.Back in 1897,in the Journel of Biblical Literature(Vol.XVI,p, 30.),Professor C.A. Briggs as a result of detailed analysis of the use of ne'phesh,observed "Soul in English uusage at the present time conveys a very different meaning from [ne'phesh] in Hebrew,and it is easy for the incautious reader to misinterpret".
More recently, when the Jewish Publication Society of America issued a new translation of the Torah,or first five books of the Bible, the editor-in-chief H.M. Orlinsky of Hebrew Union College,stated that the word 'soul' had been virtually eliminated from this translation because,"the Hebrew word in question, here is 'Nefesh'".He added "Other translators have interpreted it to mean 'soul' which is completely incorrect.The Bible does not say we have a soul.'Nefesh' is the person himself,his need for food,the very blood in his veins,his being" - The New York Times,October 12 1962.
The meanings popularly attached to the English word "soul" stem primarily,not from the Hebrew or Christian Greek Scriptures,but from ancient Greek philosophy,actually pagan religious thought,
So in a nutshell, we ARE a soul,we DONT have a soul

Answer 4

A soul is your spirit and your body combined. To lose your soul is to take the path of the devil and not be with your father in heaven. All animals have a soul I am not sure if other things do or not but the earth has been talked about in the bible as if it was alive so their is a possibility they do.

Answer 5

Genesis 2:7: Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow in to his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul.

Notice that it says that man became a soul, a living person

Read 1 Corinthians 15:45.

Answer 6

Does mommy and daddy know you're playing on the computer unsupervised

Answer 7

Interesting question...
I'd say the answer would depend on your belief system, what you were taught, what your religion teaches, and what you choose to believe.
There are any number of answers to your question.

Answer 8

It's your subconscious. It's the part of you that dreams and the part that goes on after death of physical body.

Answer 9

UR SOUL IS U.... UR BODY IS A SHELL. EVERYTHING ABOUT U, UR PERSONALITY, AND YEAH

Answer 10

its your mom