question about the soul.?

Question

If the body is impermanent why do we say we have a soul?
That suggests that we think there is something permanent about impermanence.

Answer 1

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Ge 2:7 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.

his people.
Le 17:11 For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your SOULs: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the SOUL


people.
Le 20:6 And the SOUL that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that SOUL, and will cut him off from among his people.


Le 26:15 And if ye shall despise my statutes, or if your SOUL abhor my judgments, so that ye will not do all my commandments, but that ye break my covenant:
Le 26:30 And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my SOUL shall abhor you.
Le 26:43 The land also shall be left of them, and shall enjoy her sabbaths, while she lieth desolate without them: and they shall accept of the punishment of their iniquity: because, even because they despised my judgments, and because their SOUL abhorred my statutes.


Nu 15:31 Because he hath despised the word of the LORD, and hath broken his commandment, that SOUL shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.


De 4:9 Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy SOUL diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;
De 4:29 But if from thence thou shalt seek the LORD thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy SOUL.
De 6:5 And thou shalt love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy SOUL, and with all thy might.
De 10:12 And now, Israel, what doth the LORD thy God require of thee, but to fear the LORD thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve the LORD thy God with all thy heart and with all thy SOUL,
De 11:13 And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the LORD your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your SOUL,
De 11:18 Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your SOUL, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.
De 12:15 Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy SOUL lusteth after, according to the blessing of the LORD thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.
De 12:20 When the LORD thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy SOUL longeth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, whatsoever thy SOUL lusteth after.
De 12:21 If the place which the LORD thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the LORD hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy SOUL lusteth after.
De 13:3 Thou shalt not hearken unto the words of that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams: for the LORD your God proveth you, to know whether ye love the LORD your God with all your heart and with all your SOUL.
De 13:6 If thy brother, the son of thy mother, or thy son, or thy daughter, or the wife of thy bosom, or thy friend, which is as thine own SOUL, entice thee secretly, saying, Let us go and serve other gods, which thou hast not known, thou, nor thy fathers;
De 14:26 And thou shalt bestow that money for whatsoever thy SOUL lusteth after, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy SOUL desireth: and thou shalt eat there before the LORD thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou, and thine household,
De 26:16 This day the LORD thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy SOUL.
De 30:2 And shalt return unto the LORD thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy SOUL;
De 30:6 And the LORD thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy SOUL, that thou mayest live.
De 30:10 If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the LORD thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the LORD thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy SOUL.

Answer 2

If the soul is like a person, the body is like a shirt. As the shirt wears out, the person discards it and wears another shirt. So, the person is, in a limited sense, like the permanent soul; and the body is like the shirt that is discarded.

There is no confusion thus far. But, what happens to the Soul after it leaves the body? The answer to this is given differently by different Religions. That is where the idea of re-birth comes in too.

Some people dont care about life after death. Take your pick.

Answer 3

I think people believe that the soul is actually not included with the body. It can drift freely out once the persons body quits functioning. Remember those experiments where they weighed an animal (or person?) before death (or at the moment of death), and after to see if a soul could be detected leaving the body?

Answer 4

Don't think of the soul as a physical thing. It isn't comprised of matter, but energy instead. The true form of energy, energy as you know can not be destroyed. So since all matter contains energy, when we die the energy within our body will leave our body. Where does it go? Well that depends on what your beliefs are.

The soul transcends what we know of matter, mass, and energy.

Answer 5

Dear friend,
to give you an example,just as you throw your old clothes or stop wearing them so to say..the soul also leaves the body to enter a new one after gaining experience perhaps the highest of it.All this may seem bookish but that's the truth..one gets to know and learn from his experience (good or bad) and this is something we all are here for-gaining experience..One who is close to GOD and thinks every work that he does as serving him is the happiest of all (at least i think so)..As MOTHER THERESA had quoted - it was all between u and him(GOD),it was never between u and them(people) anyway..

Answer 6

Because your body houses your soul. The body is temporary...and the soul lives forever.

Answer 7

Deep man, deep.

My guess is that someone at some point thought about the big, empty abyss of death and wanted to thwart it somehow.

On that note, I'm out. Peace, love and nerve gas.

Answer 8

confusing question... but the soul is not impermanent, to use your lingo.

Answer 9

the body is a shell which contains your soul. your being. your essance. when the body dies, your soul is freed. perhaps to zoom into a newborn baby? go on to the after life? Heaven? Hell? i cannot say...

Answer 10

An object cannot be mass-free and physical, it cannot react with energy without having energy and mass is just condensed energy. In order to react with the brain it must have mass, but in order to be invisible it must be mass free. In order to be undamagable it needs to be mass free, but in order to see it requires photoreceptors and energy measuring devices which need to interact with the physical world.

Answer 11

the soul is what you choose to make it but it will be here when your body is gone