think about a soul ,if you have one or not?

Question

if you got a soul what is it.whats its purpose
do animals have souls.
what about all living things.

Answer 1

As a Buddhist, we believe that all things have a soul or rather an internal essence and this is part of our faith to harm no animals or people. However, we also believe that that each of our reincarnations is just steps towards eternity...not heaven, but a oneness with everything. We use the wheel as a sign of Buddhism relating each spoke to a life or reincarnation, even Siddharta Guatama were through several reincarnations before he attained perfection of the soul. He was a teacher, not a God, and his purpose was to prepare us to accept things we can not change. My wheel must be shaped like a bicyble wheel with lots of spokes....so I am going to spend a long time learning how to obtain enlightenment.

Answer 2

The Bible teaches that the soul is not separate from the body.
A person IS a soul
GENESIS 2:7

“SOUL: - The spiritual part of man regarded as surviving after death and as susceptible of happiness or misery in a future state.” (The Compact Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary) Most religions more or less agree with this definition. The New Catholic Encyclopedia says: “The doctrine that the human soul is immortal and will continue to exist after man’s death . . . is one of the cornerstones of Christian philosophy and theology.”

Perhaps it would surprise many that this cornerstone belief is derived from pagan philosophy.
Long before the birth of Jesus, it was believed that the soul was something intangible that could exist apart from the body. It could thus survive the death of the body, living on in the form of a ghost, or spirit.

The Greeks articulated this belief in philosophical terms. Socrates, the famous Greek philosopher, has been quoted as saying: “The soul, . . . if it departs pure, dragging with it nothing of the body, . . . goes away into that which is like itself, into the invisible, divine, immortal, and wise, and when it arrives there it is happy, freed from error and folly and fear . . . and all the other human ills, and . . . lives in truth through all after time with the gods.”—Phaedo, 80, D, E; 81, A.

The New Catholic Encyclopedia understates matters when it says: “The notion of the soul surviving after death is not readily discernible in the Bible.” It would be more accurate to say that the doctrine of the immortality of the soul is not found at all in the Bible! That encyclopedia admits: “The concept of the human soul itself is not the same in the Old Testament as it is in Greek and modern philosophy.”

In the Old Testament, the Hebrew word ne′phesh, commonly translated “soul,” occurs 754 times. In the New Testament, the Greek word psy•khe′, also commonly translated “soul,” appears 102 times. When we examine how these words are used in the Bible, a surprising picture emerges.

At Genesis 2:7 we read that God breathed into Adam’s nostrils the breath of life, and Adam “came to be a living soul [Hebrew, ne′phesh].” Notice: Adam was not given a living soul; he became one. In other words, the newly created Adam was a soul! Little wonder that the New Catholic Encyclopedia concludes: “The soul in the Old Testament means not a part of man, but the whole man—man as a living being.”

Other scriptures confirm this. Leviticus 7:20, for example, refers to “the soul who eats the flesh of the communion sacrifice.” Leviticus 23:30 says: “As for any soul that will do any sort of work.” Proverbs 25:25 says: “As cold water upon a tired soul, so is a good report from a distant land.” And Psalm 105:18 tells us: “With fetters they afflicted his feet; into irons his soul came.” Now, what is it that can eat meat, do work, be refreshed with water, and be put in irons?
Is it a separate, spiritual part of man, or is it man himself? The answer is obvious.

So the Bible is very clear about this subject.
It is some beliefs about it that are wrong

Answer 3

There is no such thing as a soul. A soul implies there is some part of us that is separate from the physical body, that only inhabits it during our lifetime. But all our experience goes to show that we are our physical bodies and there is nothing else. For example, when we drink alcohol or take drugs, our emotions and thoughts are affected - and we can see this effect on the brain chemistry by measuring hormones and via brain scans. And if we have an accident that destroys part of the brain, frequently our ability to process thoughts and emotions is affected. How does this happen if thoughts and emotions really come from an extra-physical "soul"?

Answer 4

>>"if you got a soul what is it.whats its purpose"<<

whats the purpose of a driver in a car?

your physical body is merely a car. you are your soul, the driver.

>>"do animals have souls."<<

some do, some don't, some have collective souls, like an individual Bee, would not really have a soul as such, but a swarm, might be said to, as a collective, at least thats how I see it.

all living things have a sort of life energy, but its not neccesarily a discrete, cohesive "entity" as such.

on the animal stuff, at least thats how I see it.

but souls definitely exist, unlike some will tell you.

Answer 5

We all have a soul, its purpose is to experience all that there is whether it be this lifetime or the next. Its like when you go to school you must learn to extend to the next level and so on. I think the souls purpose of experiencing is also to extend that information learnt/gathered back to its core, for we are but an extension of the Creator.
Regarding animals I've not heard much on that to comment.

Answer 6

Of course I have a Soul. It is from Allah, and to Him is the home-coming. Little knowledge is given by Allah on the Soul, not all the knowledge. Yet, volumes have been written on that little knowledge. About Animals? Perhaps every creation has a soul. Sun and Stars are also creations. I repeat...perhaps.

Answer 7

The soul is the bioholographic residual image of the physical life form:

http://www.bioholography.org/

quote:
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Astonishing discovery has been made: LIVING OBJECTS EXPRESS HOLOGRAPHIC PROPERTIES

It is possible to acquire holograms of malfunctioning organs/tissues by recording induced emission of human fingertips, elbows or heels. Only holograms can demonstrate the whole picture by affecting their minor parts. Authors have examined up to 8,000 patients to prove that internal structures of living systems can be visualized on fingertips' radiation coronas.


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Answer 8

the soul is the seat of the emotions and thoughts. it is made of of the heart (not the physical one but the other one) and the mind.
only human beings have a soul.

Answer 9

We all have a soul.... it is the vehicle which makes us mobile in this world..... it is a "vessel" if you will, that contains the spirit....

Which is why in dreams, we see ourselves as "houses".... whereby a person will say, "I was in this house"..... it is the body!!

Now...

When a person is moving about.... the body is likened unto a vehicle.... So, some, in dreams, see their bodies as boats, cars, bicycles, automobiles, etc.... because the spirit shows that the body is in motion.....

where the house only shows the status of the body among others.....


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Answer 10

that little bible they believe in so much never explained that part, and since the BIBLE is "GOD'S" word, I guess we will never know b/c he put down the pen long ago. As every theist only accepts words of the past regardless of psychological advancements about what the innner "soul" is.