If it enters at Conception then what about conjoined twins sharing a soul, the zygote splitting a soul in half for identical twins, or worse yet, Fertility clinics freezing souls in human embroys suspended animation? does God have a soul waiting room?
If it enters at the moment of birth, then Abortion can't be murder because it is a souless entity.
2006-10-10 15:48:20 · 32 answers · asked by GobleyGook 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
abortion cant be a murder, because there is no such thing called soul in reality, soul is the key used in religions to connect you to the world after death which in reality does not exist. you can realise why human beings dont need souls to exist if you read some about psychology and biology.
2006-10-10 16:00:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Who knows? I'm going with at conception. God would have the foresight to know that the egg was going to split and provide souls accordingly. Conjoined twins? Seperate souls. As for the soul waiting room I'd say some souls are recycled which might explain why so many people are so tired and worn out these days their soul didn't have time to rest between jobs. I guess we may find all the answers out when we die.
2006-10-10 15:54:26 · answer #2 · answered by zara01 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Conception. Official Catholic teaching is sex should only be within a marriage union and it should be open to life.... the sexual union not interfered with through contraception or abortion.
This also makes reproduction an act of the union of man & wife & GOD. At conception, God also adds the human soul, which is actually the animating force of the human person. There is no "waiting room"... it is creation.
If an unborn baby is not a person and has no soul why does Luke's Gospel describe the unborn John the Baptist leaping for joy within his mother's womb (Elizabeth) at the sound of the Virgin Mary's greeting?
2006-10-10 15:49:37 · answer #3 · answered by Augustine 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Suppose the soul is part of the life of humans. Each life is unique, yet formed from the lives that joined together to create it. Just as there is no time you are not alive, there is no time you are without a soul. Perhaps the only difference it that new life will eventually die, a new soul will live on.
I've never heard science explain life any better than religion explains the soul.
2006-10-10 15:57:34 · answer #4 · answered by dave 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
very good question.
to deep to answer well offhand .
but to me the Christian God and souls are concepts that clash anyway,their suposed god was only an Anunaki,his interest in people was using them,not loving them
death is a door for the soul to other dimensions ,not a one way ticket to a garden in the clouds some where.
the Buddhists believe it enters the body at birth.and leaves at the point of death
so i will stick with them for now
2006-10-10 15:56:54 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Soul" can mean many things to many people. To some, it means the whole person, to others it means the lifeforce, and to others it means that self-aware ethereal substance that makes us individuals and lives on after we die. However you look at it, I believe that it is simply our lifeforce and therefore would come into being as soon as we do. It just means we are alive. How could anyone, with any authority, answer what you have asked? If you want there to be a "soul waiting room" then just believe it and it will be so for you. As far as abortion goes, it's up to the individual what they believe. What do you think?
2006-10-10 15:54:53 · answer #6 · answered by AuroraDawn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Assumption of the body takes place at birth, but the being will often be around during the pregnancy. Obviously if the pregnancy is terminated or the baby miscarries then there's no physical body for it to assume and it will look elsewhere.
If there is more than one fetus then there will be more than one being preparing to pick up the bodies.
The soul is the "I" or "you". The awareness of awareness unit.You are your own immortal soul.... you have a mind and occupy a body.
2006-10-10 16:18:49 · answer #7 · answered by thetaalways 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's believed that as the baby takes it's first breathe the soul enters the body. The soul exits with the last breathe. As someone said above, it comes from a pagan view....nondenominational.
2006-10-10 16:07:25 · answer #8 · answered by wandering_canuck 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i never thought of it so deeply...that is a good question!
i would have to say at conception but conjoined twins wouldnt really share a soul, they have two separate souls but the bodies are just stuck together...the ones that are frozen...???
2006-10-10 15:52:47 · answer #9 · answered by ξℓ Çђαηφσ 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Human souls are made of flesh. At conception, a person begins to exist. Don't confuse the person with their breath, that's called the spirit of life.
My definition of soul as flesh would make the question illogical for flesh cannot enter flesh, but it can be born from it.
2006-10-10 15:49:28 · answer #10 · answered by Cyber 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋