Christians: Before conception, does the soul exist or is it created during conception?

Question

Is there a 'locker room' where souls reside, waiting for two people to conceive a child so the soul can inhabit a body?

Or does the act of conception create a new soul?

Does God have a spiritual 'factory' churning out souls?

What creates a soul?

Answer 1

we do not exist until the conception. read Genesis 2 verse 7

Answer 2

I have read every one's answer here. I do not know abt the bible. There is a lot of speculation. You can get this answer in the Bhagwat Gita from the verse.
Quotes from (Chaper:verse)

For the soul there's never birth nor death. Nor, having once been, does he ever cease to be. He is unborn, eternal, ever-existing, undying and primeval. He is not slain when the body is slain. (2:20)

Partha, how can a person who knows that the soul is indestructible, unborn, eternal and immutable, kill anyone or cause anyone to kill? (2:21)

As a person puts on new garments, giving up old ones, similarly, the soul accepts new material bodies, giving up the old and useless ones. (2:22)

The soul can never be cut to pieces by any weapon, nor burned by fire, nor moistened by water, nor withered by the wind. (2:23)

This individual soul is unbreakable and insoluble, and can be neither burned nor dried. He is everlasting, all-pervading, unchangeable, immovable and eternally the same. (2:24)

It is said that the soul is invisible, inconceivable, immutable, and unchangeable. Knowing this, you should not grieve for the body. (2:25)

If, however, you think that the soul is perpetually born and always dies still, you still have no reason to lament, mighty-armed. (2:26)

For one who has taken his birth, death if certain; and for one who is dead, birth is certain. So, in the unavoidable discharge of your duty, you should not lament. (2:27)

All created beings are unmanifest in their beginning, manifest in their interim state, and unmanifest again when they are annihilated. So what need is there for lamentation? (2:28)

Some look at the soul as amazing, some describe him as amazing, and some hear of him as amazing, while others, even after hearing about him, cannot understand him at all. (2:29)

Descendant of Bharata, he who dwells in the body is eternal and can never be slain. Therefore you need not grieve for any creature. (2:30)

Answer 3

Origen taught that the souls of human
beings had a separate, conscious, personal existence in a previous state; that having sinned in that preexistent state, they are condemned to be born into this world in a state of sin and clothed with a material body. This view (called "pre-existence) has absolutely no Scriptural basis.

The majority of Catholic and Reformed theologians hold the view (called creationism) that God directly createsa new soul for each new child that is
conceived, either at the moment of conception or soon after. Passages thatsupport this view include: Ecclesiastes12: 7; Zechariah 12: 1; Hebrews 12: 9.

Theologians like Tertullian, Gregory of Nyssa and Luther hold that the person's soul is somehow derived from the souls of his or her parents (this view is called transducianism). There are both Scriptural and theological arguments in support of transducianism. Despite these strengths, transducianism has a serious flaw in the area of Christology.

The Bible does not give us a definitive statement regarding the origin of the soul. Perhaps the best position to adopt is that of Franz Pieper who explains, "We received our soul and body... from our parents [in the secondary sense] and at the same time we know that God is our creator and Father… He who made a man out of the ground also creates men to this day from the blood of the parents."

Answer 4

Genesis 2:7: The God eternal shaped the guy -- dirt from the soil -- and breathed into his nostrils the breath of existence, so as that the guy grew to become a residing being. The Hebrew word for "residing being" is nefesh chai (soul). In different phrases, existence starts whilst God breathes the soul into the physique with its first breath. An English such as the Hebrew may be: God shaped a soul from the soil. .

Answer 5

Yes it's like a spare parts storeroom at the back of heaven, it's full of cardboard boxes these in turn filled full of soul widgets waiting to be placed into an otherwise soulless fetus, without the soul the fetus would be born like Damien and be completely demonic and have frightening evil powers burning stuff to the ground with just a look and biting his friends hands off etc...maybe, maybe not.

Answer 6

We exist has spirits before this life, the term soul is often misused. The soul is the combination of Spirit and body. When a couple conceive a child when that child is a fetus our spirits go into that body.

We are the Children of our Heavenly Father, Literally.

Answer 7

The souls of my children are part of my soul, part of my husband's soul and a part of God's soul. When they got their souls I don't know, but it is the defining moment of whether that is life or just tissue growing. That's what both sides of the abortion issue argue about, when does a fetus stop being a fetus and becomes a person with a soul?

Answer 8

A soul exists when the fetus gains self-conscioussness, at about 6 months into the pregnancy.

Answer 9

the soul has been is and will continue to be. we are spirits having a physical experience not a physical body searching for a spiritual one.

Answer 10

souls do not leave unless they reach attainment...... its something like sea and fish in it..... if you take the fish out of the water... the body of the fish comes out.... life (soul) stays in the sea.......... i would think the soul enters right after conception..... ..... the whole universe is one big soul..... we are fragments of it........God created the universe.....