2006-09-26 22:55:31 · 20 answers · asked by ? 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I think it is the other way around. You are a soul that chooses to live within a human body. So you acquire a body.
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Sharon
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2006-09-27 01:19:04 · answer #1 · answered by Soul 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Where does the soul reside while waiting for a human to become more than a mere mass of undefined cells?
It depends on what you define a soul as. If you mean someone's concious being, then a soul is not achieved until they acquire true conciousness. A baby may move and act with personality but for a certain period of their life it is all based on reaction and instinct.
If you define the soul as some sort of ethereal part of us that exists in some other plane of existence, that can exist away from us then I don't know. I know that people have claimed to have seen or heard 'ghost' babies, though evidence is unobtainable. If a ghost is the remnants of a person's soul crossing the boundries between planes then that would suggest that perhaps the soul is built in from birth, I haven't ever heard of a ghost feotus.
2006-09-27 06:09:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is a misunderstanding of what being a human being is.
Your spirit or soul is your primary reality. Currently you are spirit having a human experience. This human experience is your secondary reality. It is incorrect to say that your body acquires a soul after conception. This is putting the cart in front of the horse.
The truth of you is the soul, this is what you are. The soul acquires a body, not the other way around.
Seeing it backwards like your question sees it causes a lot of problems.
Love and blessings
don
2006-09-27 06:05:17 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Given that by definition, a human being does not exist before it is conceived, it is logically impossible for it to acquire anything before conception! But the question is doubly meaningless, because when has the existence of a 'soul' ever been established?
2006-09-27 05:59:39 · answer #4 · answered by Avondrow 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Spiritualists believe that a person negotiates what it is they wish to learn before coming to the physical plane. Therefore it is technically correct that a human being acquires a soul (spirit) before conception.
The spirit or soul which ever you prefer, has to be in situ before the birth of the foetus.
2006-09-27 18:11:29 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, conception is when a human acquires a soul
2006-09-27 05:57:16 · answer #6 · answered by albert_rossie 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Before asking this question, especially knowing that atheists, agnostics, and skeptics are going to answer, you must first establish the existence of the soul. You have not done this, but you shouldn't feel bad, nobody's ever given real proof that souls exist.
2006-09-27 08:03:52 · answer #7 · answered by Big_Drew 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its possible, of course, because there is no way to prove it either way. To make it logical though, you could simply imagine souls as existing waiting for bodies to host them. Not a far stretch of the imagination, and its devoutly taught by some religions.
2006-09-27 05:57:53 · answer #8 · answered by Blue Devil 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well it is possible, but seeing the concept of a soul is entirely a matter of faith, it all depends what you believe in.
For what it is worth, I don't believe in the concept of soul, unless you mean Otis Redding.
2006-09-27 05:59:02 · answer #9 · answered by hallam_blue 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
soul can reach in to womb based on the good or bad deeds of its earlier birth. Hence only after conception only soul gets life.
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2006-09-27 06:00:20 · answer #10 · answered by D.Kumar 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋