You believer guys missed my point: Why should we care about the soul if it´s not ours?

Question

You can care about your neighbor all you want, it has no relevance on this question. It´s like saving say... your neighbor´s car from a flood. It´s a good deed but what about say... your sofa? To complete the analogy, I care more about my personality than my hypothetical soul because the soul is not me, my personality is me. You could give yourself to God but what´ll go to heaven is not you, it´s just a piece of something that God hypothetically put into your body. Whay should we save it?

Answer 1

you don't have a nephesh/psuche, you are one. You are not your breath, but it animates you. The body is part of you. WIthout body and breath, you don't exist.

Answer 2

Your Personality is part of your Soul:

I)Your Soul is made up of;
a) Your Personality,(Mind/Intellect).
b) Your Will.
c) Your Emotions.

It has been said that The Mind is The Seat of The Soul. Whatever, as God is a Trinity, and we are made in His Image, we are a Trinity.
a) We are a Spirit.
b) We have a Soul.
c) We Live in a Body.
Each can be divided into Three Parts. But are still a whole.

II) Your Spirit is made up of;
a) Our spirit comes from God.
b) Our spirit is Eternal, it can not die.
c) Our Regenerated spirit communes with God.

The Body and the Soul are the only of the Three that can die. They must be resurrected.
The death of the Soul is a death of Mind. The Soul becomes Reprobate, and worthless.
The Bode that dies sufferers decay. They both must be renewed,

III) Your Body is made up of;
a) Physical form, molded by the Hand of God.
b) The creative ability given by God.
c) An Imaginative ability not found in Beasts.

Answer 3

What causes your personality? Random little flickers of electricty. RIght that is what a very, vague science tells us. But the soul is in essence your personality, the being that you are. The body is merely a shell for that soul, your personality.

So imagine your life souless. And how do you compare a sofa to a soul? I mean seriously? Not quite equal.

Now i will play into your analogy a bit:
Lets say that I knew this flood was coming, and I had already moved my possesions to higher ground. And now I am going back to help others save their possesions. Still not quite equal to the souls and eternity, but oh well. I mean if I am protected why should I avoid going back for others?

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Answer 4

If we had a soul, and it actually embodied any part of what makes us who we are, then perhaps it would be worth saving... but in fact this is demonstrably, provably not the case. Every aspect of what constitutes a person is a function of the physical body.

Let's suppose, hypothetically, that souls exist.

If it's postulated that consciousness, or awareness, or sense of self resides in the soul, it's difficult to see how this can be reconciled with the complete oblivion which accompanies general anaesthesia. How could a straightforward chemical, injected into the bloodstream, anaesthetise a soul so that it effectively ceases to exist during this time? If consciousness, in the form of a soul, were some kind of supernatural faculty, it would seem implausible that it could be completely disabled by a chemical.

How about some of the other things which we regard as essential parts of what makes a person what they are? How about love, compassion, reason, empathy, memory, conscious thought, character, 'spirituality' and so on? Well, there is really no plausible doubt that all these things are properties of the physical brain - We can alter all of these properties very simply with alcohol or other drugs, and observe how they change in people who have suffered significant brain damage. Previously placid people become uncontrollably violent, intelligent people become imbeciles, and so on. Stimulate the brain artificially, and the subject reports corresponding mental activity, e.g. 'religious experiences'. We can see from brain research that all these things - thought, emotion, sensation, character traits and so on - are correlated with activity in the brain, and some things can be identified with specific areas of the brain.

So, if all these faculties and characteristics of what we regard as the 'person' reside in the physical brain, as seems to be undeniably the case, and they all cease when the person dies, then what is left to be attributed to a 'soul'? As far as I can ascertain: Nothing. If there is no part of us that can continue after death, then there is no 'afterlife'... and if there is no afterlife, then most of religion is null and void.

Answer 5

The whole person, minus the body, will spend eternity either with God or separated from God. Your spirit, your soul, your personality, the character you have developed are all a part of you. Even God has three separate and distinct persons with different qualities and characteristics. The soul is the part of you that was wounded in "the fall" by sin. It is the part that needs healing and restoration (saving) so that we can live in the presence of God.

Answer 6

In the 70's people cared about soul the music was great back then! but today nobody cares about soul anymore! Look at the music we got today. The 80's were the last decade for good music. We need another Blues Brothers mission from god to save our music again! Got to have soul!

Answer 7

What the hell are you talking about? What are those storms of thought inside your brain? Those electrical impulses racing your nervous pathways? The fire resting in the water, of course. That same fire is what was on that burning bush talking to Moses, which is why the bush didn't burn or smoke.

You are your soul, and your body is just the clothing for it. Why should you save your soul? So you can be reborn some time in the future, in a Heaven on Earth kind of place, instead of this dumpy *** End of the World we're living in right now.

Answer 8

If you don't care about your soul, you don't care about it. It is not up to me to try to persuade you that you should, is it?

I can tell you why I care about my soul. I inspected my personality and found in it a deep schism. While I most times believed in and wanted to be good, there were many times when I directly went against what I thought I wanted. That is, after taking a close look at myself, I found that I failed..repeatedly. I learned that I valued good but that my actions seemed to indicate that I actually valued bad--since I engaged in it frequently, despite my intentions.

I eventually came to understand that this schism ran deeper than just residing in my "self" or personality. It was a schism in my soul. A deep, eternal conflict that I could not reconcile on my own power.

This is when I began to believe that I had a soul, planted inside me by God, and warred upon by God's enemy. I came to care about what God had given me--my soul--when I came to care about God. That is, when I began wanting good to prevail, and realizing that if I relied on my own power, good would never prevail...as evidenced by the fruits of the life I led in self-will.

Answer 9

How do you know the nature of what our soul is? You make it sound like you'd be sending your appendix up to heaven, or one of your kneecaps.

That is a fairly material view of what a soul is or might be - material in the sense that you have to consider yourself an assembly of parts, without being anything more. Those of us who don't subscribe that would consider the soul to be the entirety of our real selves. Sure its great to have hands; I feel fortunate to be able to use them to play the guitar.

But that - ultimately - is not who I am. My personality is my distinctiveness. If anything, it is my soul. It may or may not be ours. But it is US in every meaningful way.

Answer 10

Maybe you do not kow what your soul is. Maybe you are mixing self awareness, intellect, just breathing, up with what a soul is. If a soul is aware, able to feel, able to mourn, able to rationally think, have memory....as it is said to in the bible, then what would be left? Your body. A piece of meat. What would you rather keep. A piece of meat or your esssence and life?

Answer 11

Where do these people come up with what the soul is? They are just making statements as to what they think the soul is as if they are facts or say something like "the bible says so."

Why is it the way you say it is? What is it based on? Where is the evidence?

Religion is a contagious neurosis!!