Once science can attribute all of our cognitive functions to our brain (which it will), will Christians finally stop believing in the soul?
2006-10-01 16:34:19 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The soul is a nonsensical, meaningless concept. It is indeed imaginary.
The primary attribute of the term “soul” is unidentified. At best, spiritualists have postulated that a soul is “immaterial”—but this description simply tells us what a “soul” is not, not what a “soul” is, and thus there is no connection established between a “soul” ’s metaphysical nature and any secondary properties that one should wish to attach to it. If a term’s primary attribute is unidentified, we cannot say what attributes can be applied to it or not applied to it, because we are unable to say what it is that it may possess any particular characteristics at all. Consequently, this concept of a "soul" is meaningless.
2006-10-01 16:35:47 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
So you think you have the answers, do you? Well good for you. Then you're probably familiar with the law of conservation of matter and energy which states that "Energy and Matter can neither be Created nor Destroyed on Transfered or Transformed." This is an accepted, proven scientific law. And if this is true, which I believe it is, then where did the first energy and matter come from? There must have been an original source, a devine source if you will.
Neurologists and scientist have also proven upon death the human body spontaniously loses approximately 21 grams of weight. And no it's not urine or feces. You seem to be so certain about your answers, so why are you here asking questions?
Maybe you're right, but what if you're wrong? When you die what if instead of an ending you find that your soul is hurtling through a spacial void? What will you do then?
2006-10-02 00:07:58 · answer #2 · answered by lifhapnz 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. They won't. It is a religious person's only hope for survival. Even ex-religious persons like me have trouble believing that we aren't something more than physical. My body seems to be at least partially under the control of my mind, but I still feel like there's another part of me that controls my body and mind, that my will is a higher-level of control for my whole self. I don't see it as something that will be alive and conscious after my body dies, but I do feel that there is a "me" that isn't just my mind. But I can't prove it, no one ever really has. Even if we call it "consciousness" instead of soul, it remains impossible to properly define.
Now I'm not sure I have a soul. Nice going, dude. That hissing sound you hear is all the air rushing out of my newly burst bubble.
2006-10-01 23:48:58 · answer #3 · answered by anyone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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.
2006-10-01 23:38:28 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
You are a Spirit, you have a Soul, and you Live in a Body.
Spirit is the Real YOU (conciousness)
Soul is your Invisible Spiritual Super-Computer(Second Mind), some call the Sub-Concious.
The Body will fall over when YOU and your Soul come out of it.
2006-10-01 23:40:00 · answer #5 · answered by maguyver727 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Genesis 2:7 Â 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.
The living soul is a combination of the body and the breath of life.
2006-10-01 23:35:43 · answer #6 · answered by Exodus 20:1-17 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I believe it is a delusion that somehow we have a part of ourselves that transcends our neurons and organs. However, since faith does not depend on science, I don't think you can count on religious people to yield on the soul when no one can find it. No one can find God either, and 80% of Americans still believe in him.
2006-10-01 23:37:21 · answer #7 · answered by NHBaritone 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Evidence and reason never stopped the Christians before. Why should anything ever change?
2006-10-01 23:36:31 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
No. They'll simply embrace the idea that our free will in the metaphysical dimension retroactively alters reality, so that we still have free will, and everything observable is deterministic (or completely random).
2006-10-01 23:36:58 · answer #9 · answered by lenny 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Or .... you could read Plato's argument for the transmigration of the soul.
2006-10-01 23:36:09 · answer #10 · answered by Aspurtaime Dog Sneeze 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋