The soul is by nature and by virtue of an inherent quality immortal, right?

Answer 1

That's the theory. Trying to prove it by physical or philosophical means is near impossible. Most every religion will tell you that it is immortal. Is immortality a quality of the soul? Lots of people seem to think so. People who claim to be in contact with the dead will tell you so too. If you can take their word for it. If you get a past-life regression done, it seems to indicate your soul has been in a physical form before. But is that your former life, or are you channeling some dead person and seeing things from their view? Is there really any difference?

Answer 2

Excellent question ...

If we have a slender thread called spirit .. perhaps it is sheathed in this "soul".. perhaps the spirit is impersonal and stellar .. and this soul is more planetary and is of archetypal essences that we ourselves are refining ...

This soul may have immortal qualities .. in fact a very timelessness may be the penultimate quality to develop in it .. A certain unification with the spirit thread may be in order to affect this immortality ...

But this does not make this soul necessarily imperishable ...

Let us say .. further there is another sheath exterior to this soul .. which to us is more "the instincts" ... And perhaps we can place the mind (in its typical orientation) as mediating between the instincts and the soul ... That the view of "most lives" never turns up from this gazing down amid the flux and sway of the numerous instincts .. To look up into the soul from here is to glimpse a comparatively transtemporal self .. yet the immortality is not yet assured ...

Finally the fourth external sheath is simply the body as we know it ...

If over multiple incarnations .. an individuality vested with these (three interior) sheaths chose dire selfishness .. a very difficult thing to do multiple times .. It could theoretically divest itself of a "soul" .. and of an individualism it had priorly earned ..

Yet .. this loss is not a doom .. as it is much like a composting .. the hummus rather what falls away and is lost .. perhaps becomes dirt and stone again .. and resumes it's migraton to attaining soul as raw constituents for other entities to process ...

Your fine question here, requires metaphors ... I have taken the liberty of creating metaphorical layers here .. There are no tangibles that we can point to saying , "here" or "there" when speaking of these things ... I am the beneficiary of alot of studies, and some hardwon contemplations too (hardwon delusions.. lol)... but this is original "spin. warp, and weave" here ...:D





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Answer 3

Spinoza didn't think so. However, some other philosophers did think so. So it's your call.

I'd ask you this -- if you knew your soul was immortal, how would it affect what you did in this life? If you knew your soul was NOT immortal, how would it affect what you did in this life?

Most folks I know who believe in the immortality of the soul seem to be saving their love for the afterlife. If you know you are only here once, it makes each breathing moment all the more precious. In my opinion, if there is any trick to immortality, it's in living life as though you are not. The echo you leave in others' lives will be your immortality regardless.

Just a thought.

Answer 4

First you would have to define Soul.

I do not think there is a universally aceptable answer. Every religion would define it diferently. Its more or less an Idea. or more to the point a myth among all religions.

Some of you may disagree, But not one person on this planet can tell me how I define my "soul". As it is a non-tangible object.

Therefore I would say that it is not immortal cause to be honest its existance can only be discussed in certain belief circles, thereby classifying it as a universal untruth.

So my answer for all mankind would be No it is not immortal. This is the only way to answer this question. Anyone who answers based on their religious beliefs does not understand the true meaning of religion.

Answer 5

Christians have a totally whacky idea of what the 'soul' is supposed to be. For the Jews of that time... including Jesus... the 'soul' was an enveloping emanation from the godhead that resulted from the community's relationship with god. The soul as a component of a human being (Christian view) is an artifact of Greek thinking on 'dualism'... which was incorporated into Christian dogma and lore by Gentile theologians, who were ignorant of Jewish (and Jesus') concept of 'soul'.

So... apart from the fact that all of this stuff is mythological nonsense, anyway... everyone's worries about what happens to their personal 'soul' are of no consequence... it does not exist.

Answer 6

The soul is a personification of human emotions and qualities. It does not exist - like the leprechauns of Ireland it is nothing but myth.

Answer 7

No... Here's a really good explanation of the Biblical use of soul, spirit and the hellfire doctrine and how it's been misused:

http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/2002/7/15/article_02.htm

Answer 8

OH SO WRONG!!!! gen,2:7-man is a living soul-1cor.15:45 "it is
even written:'the first man adam became a living soul' 1peter 3:20,
Gen.9:5, Josh.11,11-no where in the bible does it state that any
part of man is immortal.even the beasts are living 'souls'

Answer 9

No, not according to Ezekiel 18:4.

Answer 10

Yes. Though that immortality is sustained from outside itself by God.