everlasting soul?

Question

most religions belive you soul goes on to a heavenlly place after death to live on for eternity (if you a true beliver that is) but if the soul goes on forrever where was it before we were born?

Answer 1

Nothing is forever

Answer 2

God outlined what would happen to Adam if he died he was going to return to dust. not go to hell or even heaven if he had remained obedient.
'Most people ' are believing a lie that the soul carries on after death. This is not actually what the bible says. Ezekiel Chapter 18 says the soul that is sinning will die.
God told Noah about eating flesh with blood Genesis 9 v 6 and commanded not to do this as the soul is in the blood.
Ecclesiastes 9 v 5 .
If we carry on living at death why the need for a resurection? Acts 24 v 15 and Revelation Chapter 20

Answer 3

You assume that the soul has a definite beginning also?

The concept that we call a soul, is an immaterial, possible energy construct, if you will, a non-material analog of the human consciousness. It might not exist at all in any form that we would recognize as existing, more of a fold in the quantum field, or just an informational analog of the mind.

if this realm is a step outside of the Time/Space continuum, then in theory, there is no start, end, or infinity. Outside of what is, is a non-place, indescribable using language, due to the fact that language is bound in time/space. If no-time, no-space, then what is?

So, the concepts of start, end, birth, death, while being a definite stretch here, might be happening all at once, not at all, backwards, forwards and sideways, outside of time/space. What happens when the clock isn't broken, just merely, irrelevant?

Answer 4

The soul or self is eternal, it is part and parcel of the Supreme soul or God, that great fountainhead of wisdom, the Bhagavad Gita states in Chapter 2 Verse 12 "Never was there a time when I did not exist, nor you, nor all these kings; nor in the future shall any of us cease to be."

The eternal soul, whilst tainted by the infection of material life, transmigrates from one body to another, the type of body we get is dependant upon the activities and desires performed during the course of each lifetime.

The individual soul and the Supreme soul or God are also beyond the scrutiny of empirical science, the symptom of the soul is consciousness, which also cannot be empirically demonstrated, but obviously exists, because you must be conscious to read this answer via the manifestation of consciousness through the biological material body and subtle mind.

To understand consciousness, firstly it must be understood that you are the eternal soul, not the material body and the symptom of the soul is consciousness or awareness, just as there is individual consciousness emanating from each soul, there is also a supreme, all pervading consciousness, or God. Both are individual and both contain personality, which is the topmost feature of both.

The material body is simply a biological machine, a very complex machine but it is also an impersonal, external, inferior energy composed of molecules and atomic particles.The material body is never the same twice, it is constantly changing, in a state of constant flux and perpetual motion.

Within the material body is a subtle or astral body composed of mind, intelligence and ego.Consciousness, which is a symptom of the soul or self, manifests through the subtle mind and intelligence, similarly to a programme manifesting through a television set, the television set is not the primary cause of the programme, just as the mind is not the primary cause of consciousness.

Beneath the subtle body is the eternal, original spiritual body that is eternal, self aware and blissful. The symptom of the real self, which has individual identity is, as previously stated,consciousness itself, consciousness is not material, therefore it is beyond the boundaries of experimental empirical science and the mundane materially minded mental speculators and some philosophers.

So, once consciousness and the soul or self has been understood, then in the human form of life, a choice must be made as to whether each individual chooses to perform material or worldly activities, therefore creating a certain type of mentality, which at the time of death will leave the old material body and by nature's direction be awarded with another material form, perfectly suited to the mentality that has been created, under the influence of the three modes of material nature, goodness, passion and ignorance.

However, if the individual is a wise and enlightened person, then that person will seek to purify the subtle body and remove any material contamination of the mind and intelligence, by spiritual activities, when the subtle body is cleansed, then just like a pure pool of water, the individual can perceive their real identity as an eternal spiritual being, this is pure consciousness, they can rationally perceive spiritual reality, the source of that reality and the effects of inferior energy in its various forms within any individual who is conditioned by material desires and activities, which is a polluted state of consciousness and leads to further material encagement within the prisonhouse of material existence.


To discuss further:-Sriman Sankarshan Das Adhikari ([e-mail])

Answer 5

Not all religions believe that. Some believe in a vengeful 'god'. There is a school of thought which subscribes to a view that this earthly life is a learning ground and that each birth is to learn lessons not yet learned in a previous incarnation.....and that we are all reborn many times over until we've learned enough to go to .............well, who knows..........but a more ettereal place. I've no idea how much credence there is in that but I ponder the expression 'old soul' and wonder..........

Answer 6

That is an excellent question. The correct answer is that we ARE a soul. In the Genesis account of creation, it says that God breathed into man's nostrils and he came to BE a living soul. Another point of logic is that if we have a separate soul, why, when God sentenced Adam & Eve to death for their disobedience did he simply say "for dust you are and to dust you will return." Another eye opening point. If we have an immortal soul, why did King Solomon, at Ecclesiastes 9:5 say that "the living are conscious that they will die, but as for the dead they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. Later in verse 10 of that same chapter she says 'all that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising, nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, the place to which you are going" (Sheol being man's common grave) Finally, we have Ezekiel 18:4 which says that "the soul that is sinning, it itself will die.

Answer 7

Some also believe reincarnation is the same soul living many lives to be perfected. We don't consciously remember past lives. Soooo...in each life we believe whatever we're told in the name of salvation.

Answer 8

My personal thoughts are that a person's soul was living and learning in a prior host. The circle of life persay.

Answer 9

It all depends on our conception of G-D, G-D is a manifestation of many attributes. the entire universe is a manifestation of g-d.our bodies consist of atoms which in turn form energy.We where energy with a thinking pattern on a different wavelength.so we return to that wavelength.What scripture does show is that in the future mankind will be responsible for his/hers actions because that universal thought manifested itself and reveal it's universal law of conduct for our present state. peace.

Brother Luis

Answer 10

The Gaia hypothesis is an ecological theory that proposes that the living matter of planet Earth functions like a single organism.

Since life started on Earth, the energy provided by the Sun has increased by 25% to 30%; however the surface temperature of the planet has remained remarkably constant when measured on a global scale. Furthermore, he argued, the atmospheric composition of the Earth is constant. The Earth's atmosphere currently consists of 79% nitrogen, 20.7% oxygen and 0.03% carbon dioxide. Oxygen is the second most reactive element after fluorine, and should combine with gases and minerals of the Earth's atomosphere and crust. Traces of methane (at an amount of 100,000 tonnes produced per annum), should not exist, as methane is combustible in an oxygen atmosphere. This composition should be unstable, and its stability can only have been maintained with removal or production by living organisms.

Ocean salinity has been constant at about 3.4% for a very long time. Salinity stability is important as most cells require a rather constant salinity and do not generally tolerate values above 5%. Ocean salinity constancy was a long-standing mystery, because river salts should have raised the ocean salinity much higher than observed. Recently it was suggested that salinity may also be strongly influenced by seawater circulation through hot basaltic rocks, and emerging as hot water vents on ocean spreading ridges. However, the composition of sea water is far from equilibrium, and it is difficult to explain this fact without the influence of organic processes.

The only significant natural source of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) is volcanic activity, while the only significant removal is through the precipitation of carbonate rocks. In water, CO2 is dissolved as a "carbonic acid," which may be combined with dissolved calcium to form solid calcium carbonate (limestone). Both precipitation and solution are influenced by the bacteria and plant roots in soils, where they improve gaseous circulation, or in coral reefs, where calcium carbonate is deposited as a solid on the sea floor. Calcium carbonate can also be washed from continents to the sea where it is used by living organisms to manufacture carbonaceous tests and shells. Once dead, the living organisms' shells fall to the bottom of the oceans where they generate deposits of chalk and limestone. Part of the organisms with carboneous shells are the coccolithophores (algae), which also happen to participate in the formation of clouds. When they die, they release a sulfurous gas (DMS), (CH3)2S, which act as particles on which water vapor condenses to make clouds.

Lovelock sees this as one of the complex processes that maintain conditions suitable for life. The volcanoes produce CO2 in the atmosphere, CO2 participates in rock weathering as carbonic acid, itself accelerated by temperature and soil life, the dissolved CO2 is then used by the algae and released on the ocean floor. CO2 excess can be compensated by an increase of coccolithophoride life, increasing the amount of CO2 locked in the ocean floor. Coccolithophorides increase the cloud cover, hence control the surface temperature, help cool the whole planet and favor precipitations which are necessary for terrestrial plants. For Lovelock and other Gaia scientists like Stephan Harding, coccolithophorides are one stage in a regulatory feedback loop. Lately the atmospheric CO2 concentration has increased and there is some evidence that concentrations of ocean algal blooms are also increasing.

Answer 11

Read Psalm 139