Does the soul exist? Does a person without a brain (hypothetically) have a soul?

Question

How would that be assessed?

Does the soul reside in our brain?

When I think of where the "me" part of my self is I always picture it being in my head.

Do Christians feel it elsewhere?

Answer 1

i think we have souls and yes i think souls exist. but i dont think that it resides in our brains as much as it uses the brain to help express itself through the body. so people w/out a brain wouldnt not have a soul, they'd have one, but they just wouldnt be able to express their soul through their body

i hope this is a good answer, sounds right to me

im a Christian but i think all Christians think differently so its kinda unfair to say all Christians think the same thing

Answer 2

Just my opinion but everything comes from something. Nothing just materializes out of nothing and so it seems to me that when a child is conceived, it's not just the dna and so on that is causing a new person to be but that the soul or spirit which always was and always will be also enters into the body of the new being and predisposes that being to certain attitudes, emotional makeup, and maybe even memories. Some people think that the "me" part of them feels strongest around the heart area rather than in the brain.

Answer 3

Personally I believe in a soul and it encompasses the entire body and maybe a little beyond - like the aura. It would be flexible and adapt to changes in the body. It would be more active in the brain though. Those who see auras, and those cameras that supposedly take pictures of auras, show them mostly around the head and torso but over the whole body as well. Don't know how it could ever be proven or assessed in any way though.

Answer 4

It relies upon on what you outline the soul. Many have made the features of the soul synonymous with idea and concepts. In which have, the soul does die with the mind. notwithstanding, the factors believed to be possessed through the soul previous psychological strategies (spirituality and immortality) are meant to exist previous the actual. i imagine that a soul in this understand does no longer exist in any respect. yet, if it does exist, that's not area of the actual body.

Answer 5

No we do not have a soul. A soul is a spiritual thing. We were raised to believe this balogny to keep people in order. The greatest scientist have long agreed that a soul or life after death is not likely a possibility. But if people want to believe it, that's a good thing. There would be more vicious crimes if people were not afraid of going to hell.

Answer 6

The soul is an imaginary anachronistic concept that essentially denies all of modern neuroscience. There is no such thing as a soul.

"Soul" describes a rather vague amalgamation of personality, beliefs, emotions. That is indisputably (from a scientific point of view), as you say, a function of the human cortex. Where Christians or others "feel" it is immaterial. Their feelings too are simply cortical functions.

Answer 7

People do not have a soul.

A person IS a soul. -- Genesis 2:7.

Answer 8

yes cut is is considered to be the memories
EVERyone has Memories

Answer 9

Christians don't feel anything.

Answer 10

When God created the man, God blessed him spirit and made his well-designed body with clay and water. Even today every one possesses three different things, body, spirit and self.

1. Body:-

God made the body a performing machine to act according to the demands of self. It eats, wears, drinks, smells, tastes, sees, hears, touches and uses the universe. This thing works as a base of needs and demands. Though it seems different from other animals but it is not different at all. Its design is different but its nature is actually the same.

2. Spirit:-

God created it as an acting power. It is a Commandment and Will of our Lord and we use it for a little time (the life span) in space. Since it totally belongs to God, so we are answerable of its use. It is a guiding-light and our conscious-energy. All the things around us including angels and demons may effect it through suggestions and as a result we may move in right or wrong direction. It is not God because nothing can effect God and determine God’s mood. God is Holy and the Creator of all the things, which we can name. Spirits are sometimes, God guided and sometimes, demon guided and only God guided spirits are pious-ones and demon guided spirits are all-in-all evil.

3. Self:-

Self is the real being, fully equipped with the power of decisions. Self is the real man or woman, a sort of guest in the house of spirit and body. Self is a third dimension of our existence. Spirit makes the body move and all acts happen according to the decisions made by the self.

Our life is a gesture of these three things in our existence and we are passing through time.

Our universe/cosmos is a living story book and our’s selves are it’s characters. Particles of the body of universe, are alphabets and things in it are words, in physical and metaphysical form the words of God. Cosmos is a spirit of the body of universe, which runs it and makes it meaningful.

The universe/cosmos is a book of God for our reading.

Above that Moral State is a law of God (Not God) over universe/cosmos___ to award the right and wrong___ done by the creatures.

Our’s selves are free beings to act freely. We may act according to the Commandments of God or we may follow our own way. Results of the both are predominantly different. Servants of God are blessed but followers of Demon are cursed. And both of the type of acts are being precisely recorded, on the most sensitive tape of cosmos and in the book of universe, for the ultimate judgement.

We own nothing but our free Selves, which are conscious-beings, belonging to the moral state. Spirits are immaterial things, belonging to the cosmos. And, Bodies are material things, belonging to the universe.

All attentions appear in our Selves and our acts are the expressions of our Selves. And our Selves are answerable to God for each and every act. If the acts are done according to the God’s Commandments, they are known as right and good deeds. And, if the acts are done according to the suggestions of Satan, then, they are known as wrong and evil deeds or sins. Good deeds lead us to prosperity and Heaven and evil deeds lead us to the doom and Hell.

Such a situation is under operation in the moral state.

Spirit and Body, the both are great gifts of our Lord blessed to our Self.

Now think yourself!

If I ask you, “From where have you got this body? Does it belong to you?

What will be your answer? If you say, “It belongs to me and I got it from this world”___ Then I shall ask you, “To whom you paid its price and for how much you purchased it?

You will start thinking and will positively understand what I wanted to let you know. You will realize that it is a gifted thing and your Creator has blessed it to you. It is nothing but a great, beautiful and precious gift of your Almighty Lord.

NOW

Ponder over this assumption. Suppose; you like someone and want to show your love to him or her. In such a situation, you will buy a thing and will give it to him or her as a gift as you know that through this way you can express your love. If he or she accepts it and gives honour to your gift and pays thanks; what will be your feelings? You will definitely feel a great joy and will become his or her friend. And, if he or she not only rejects your gift but also throws it down in the dust and smashes it or kicks it with his or her foot; what will be your feelings?

Now I hope, you can understand in a better way that when someone commits or attempts suicide, he or she smashes and ruins the gifts of his or her loving Lord, Therefore, the Lord does not like such an act and curses the suiciders. Anger of the Lord is expressed in the Law of banning suicide in all of the religions.

In fact, killing of one’s ownself is equal to the killing of someone else while every soul is a precious creation of the Lord. Such people, who commit suicide or kill others, are evildoers. Both are criminals, in the sight of our Lord and deserve punishment.

Purpose of life is the worship of the Lord alone. This life is nothing but a test of obedience to the Alone Lord.

Each and every thing is perishable of our present life. As compared to the eternal life, this life is a dream like reality and life in Heaven is not perishable but that is the real life.

In this worldly life, our death is with us on each and every step while the eternal life is without an end. Everyone will either rejoice due to good deeds or will face torture due to evil deeds forever.

Ram Chander Jee said, “Whosoever has taken birth, will face death”. He was right to say so because each and every Book of our Lord tells this truth in open words. It is repeatedly announced in all the Books that each and everyone will taste death and this universe will come to an end for another beginning.

Only the Creator of life and death, is forever.

Life with death, can never be considered as a real life. It is, of course, similar to real life. People of wisdom do understand its temporal nature. It looks like a child’s play but its not a child’s play. It is a mean of test, so one should remain sincere to the Lord and live and fight with patience for the eternal life constantly. One should serve his or her Lord whole-heartedly and establish his or her love for the Lord alone.

Death can come at anytime in this temporal life and when the moment of death reaches it, makes it finished. We leave each and everything and move to the destined destination, empty-handed and empty-minded. Nothing remains important and the death itself reveals the answers of all the questions, which we can not, perhaps, understand during the lifetime. It opens up the eyes of each and everyone. It is the moment of death, alone which lets us know the importance of belief. Death releases our self and takes away the spirit and body in the same way as it normally happens in our dreams.

In a dream, Spirit and Body remain apart and only our Self sees and feels everything. We hear without ears and see without eyes and when we die in a dream, our eyes open here, in this world.

The same thing happens when someone dies here; in this world, his or her eyes open in the eternal life and one can not come back to this life to let the others know about the process of death as a dream-awaken can not go back to the dream.

After death or suicide body becomes like a closed door which spiritless-self can not open to feel and see this world and self becomes world-less or body-less to be called dead.

Suicide is not an end of everything. It is simply the beginning of next life without a further chance to do a good or a bad deed. Death, in fact, is an end of this life and beginning of the next life, which will be the result of the deeds, done here. One must know this very fact comprehensively.

Nothing will go along, with the dead but his good or bad deeds for Judgement. This life is a way to the next life. It is not our destination. Since, the believers know this thing through faith, so they are not scared of death. Instead they are scared of the anger of their Lord and do good deeds. The believers are brave due to their belief and the non-believers are coward due to the lack of knowledge and belief.

Only such people, who do not know the reality of this life, try to commit suicide and think that this will be an end of their sickness. Whereas, suicide is not an end of any sickness but it is the beginning of doom. Whosoever kills himself, he walks out of the test and such a person is declared failed and doomed to Hell.

Reality of the law, on which nature survives, is revealed in our nature. Even the most beautiful thing which we achieve, start boring us by the passage of time and what is to say about the boring things. Our life is not meant to waste in the pursuits of worldly things but it is an open test and is a preparation plan of the eternal life. One will sow here and will cut there in the next life.

At last, God shows mercy to mankind and says in revelation that if someone will not believe in the gods, besides the Alone Lord, the Lord will show mercy to such one and will forgive his or her sins.

“Lo! Allah (The Alone Lord) forgives not that a partner should be ascribed unto Allah. Allah forgives (all) save that to whom Allah will. Whose ascribes partners to Allah (The Alone Lord), has wandered far astray”.
(Quran 4:116)

This promise takes our attention to these words of Torah.
“I ___and I alone___ am God
No other god is real”.
(Bible, Duet 32:39)

Therefore, one should not believe in three or many gods, instead, one should believe in only One and Alone Unseen God. One should not consider this world or universe as a god as pantheists consider “Everything is god and god is every thing”.
Whereas, God has already clearly mentioned in Torah that nothing resembles to God. Please read this text carefully:

“Worship no god but Me. Do not make for yourselves images of anything in heaven or on earth or in the water under the earth. Do not bow down to any idol (image) or worship it, because I am the Lord your God and I tolerate no rivals. I bring punishment on those who hate me and on their descendants down to the third and fourth generation”.
(Bible, Exodus 20:3, 4, 5)

Therefore, one should simply believe in One Alone Lord and understand that nothing resembles to the Lord and Lord is the UNSEEN.

This faith will serve as a key to the heaven.