Does the soul leave the body because the body dies, or does the body die because the soul has left it?

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

Actually, the body can survive quite a long time without a soul or "being". It will eventually die though, cuz there will be no "software" inside to tell it what to do. So to answer your question, the soul usually leaves the body because the body dies. But there are many reasons why someone might leave their body, including due to a great trauma, intentionally through meditation, etc. In those cases the soul usually "snaps back" very quickly and it can be an uncomfortable and strange experience to the person. If the body dies under horrible circumstances (like being murdered) and the soul cannot confront this, then you can get the phenomena called "ghosts".

Answer 3

Niether. Death is much more complicated than that. The body dies because, depending on the cause of death, the vital organs in some way stop fuctioning. It all depends on how you die actually. Someone might get shot and die from too much blood loss. There are several factors which cause the body to die. Your heart could stop working then eventually the lungs, and finally your brain and then you die. Or the organs can stop functioning for a little bit, then suddenly begin fuctioning again causing the whole "snapping back" effect. Really, the soul leaving is just an overly simplified explanation of death.

Answer 4

Both are true. Soul is immortal. Body is the shelter in which the Soul sojourns,in this birth. Soul keeps taking birth after birth until after the whole karma is washed off the soul. If the body is not in a fit condition for it to accommodate the soul, the soul leaves the body. Similarly, even if the body is in a fit condition also, the soul takes leave, if the purpose of the body is served.

Answer 5

the body dies because the soul left it. but the soul will leave if it is time for the body to die.

Answer 6

In both conditions the body dies and the soul leaves

Answer 7

What exactly do you think a soul is? What properties does it have? What part of 'you' resides in the soul?

If it's postulated that consciousness, or awareness, or sense of self resides in the soul, it's difficult to see how this can be reconciled with the complete oblivion which accompanies general anaesthesia. How could a straightforward chemical, injected into the bloodstream, anaesthetise a soul so that it effectively ceases to exist during this time? If consciousness, in the form of a soul, were some kind of supernatural faculty, it would seem implausible that it could be completely disabled by a chemical.

How about some of the other things which we regard as essential parts of what makes a person what they are? How about love, compassion, reason, empathy, memory, conscious thought, character, 'spirituality' and so on? Well, there is really no plausible doubt that all these things are properties of the physical brain - We can alter all of these properties very simply with alcohol or other drugs, and observe how they change in people who have suffered significant brain damage. Previously placid people become uncontrollably violent, intelligent people become imbeciles, and so on. Stimulate the brain artificially, and the subject reports corresponding mental activity, e.g. 'religious experiences'. We can see from brain research that all these things - thought, emotion, sensation, character traits and so on - are correlated with activity in the brain, and some things can be identified with specific areas of the brain.

So, if all these faculties and characteristics of what we regard as the 'person' reside in the physical brain, as seems to be undeniably the case, and they all cease when the person dies, then what is left to be attributed to a 'soul'? As far as I can ascertain: Nothing. If there is no part of us that can continue after death, then there is no 'afterlife'... and if there is no afterlife, then most of religion is null and void.

Answer 8

1+1=2 or 1+1=11????


body dies coz the soul left.

Answer 9

The soul leave the body beacause the body dies..

Answer 10

Body dies first and in a wink of an eye we are changed and we have new bodies for our souls.