Which experiences pain, body or soul?

Question

If the body experiences pain, why don't we feel the pain while it's being cremated?

Answer 1

Since your body & soul are the same:

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

The body feels physical pain, the soul feels emotional pain. Once the human physical body has died, the soul leaves it to go and be renewed and refreshed before it's next incarnation, which is whay no pain is felt on cremation..... the body is dead and the soul has left it.

Answer 3

The answer to the first question is BOTH...the body feels with it's physical sensors of such, while the spirit encompasses the entire experience of it.

An inanimate human body feels nothing, since all sensory perception organs are dead as well...the spirit does not feel this because at the moment the body is no longer of usefulness, it returns Home.

Answer 4

Pain must be do to our perception of things. Our identification with the complex temporal physical self is so strong and deep rooted we may experience so much pain or fear. But, if we identified with our eternal self then we would possibly no longer have trouble with pain and other miseries.

Answer 5

depends on what kind of pain, emotional pain is pain of the sould, physical pain is pain of the body. however, they can cross over. emotional pain can manifest itself in a physical form, and physical pain can cause the soul to hurt also.

Answer 6

Body and Mind... soul does not exist.

Answer 7

First the soul.

Answer 8

Both

Answer 9

both, but the body heals and recovers much more quickly.

Answer 10

It's our body alone !