Where do the raw materials for souls come from?

Question

As I understand it, each human that is born is infused by god with an immortal soul, which once created, exists forever. That means that as time marches on, the afterlife continues to get more and more populated with souls. Where is god getting all these soul ingredients? Is there a heavenly field where you plant "soul seeds?"

Some say souls are part of god to begin with. So what is god then, some kind of enourmous "mother alien" that just keeps laying soul eggs to be placed into the bodies of humans (or aliens/beings/whatever?) Does this make god an endless, infinite soul factory whose purpose is to reclaim said souls after they've lived a brief mortal existence, during which time they must prove their worthiness by resisting all kinds of clever & insideous temptations, just to get back to god again? Ahhhhhhhh!!!!!

Or, does god keep getting smaller each time he doles out a sole?

Why can't god just create the soul and set it next to him to begin with?

Answer 1

It works a little like that. God tears off a piece of herself to make a soul. It doesn't matter, she's infinite and it doesn't shrink her. Why you ask yourself? Well, it's probably pretty lonely and boring being God. What would you do if you didn't have something to mess around with and talk to. Here's the dilemma. Since God is by definition perfect, why would a perfect being do this. Believe it our not, therein lies the answer and I think I figured it out. I've written what is basically a three thousand page novel in which I describe it. I'm almost done, another few months. It's been a journey of almost six years and required a unique and ambitious assault on both quantum and classical physics. It hangs together though, and there's really no other answer. Was it Sherlock Holmes that said: When you remove all of what it can't be, what's left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth. In an odd way, and regardless of the tongue and cheek nature of your question, you're on the right tract.

Answer 2

Your Question looks to be a serious attempt at gaining spiritual knowledge. I will try to answer you at that level.

For thousands of years theologians have wrestled with the problem that you ask about. When talking about the human make up, some theologians believe in what they call a dicotemy. Others believe in a tricotemy. the first group believes that the human is made up of two parts; the body and the spirit. The second group believe that the human has three parts; the body, the mind and the soul.

Lets say the the second group is correct.

The body is the physical part of you, the mind is the thinking part of you, and the Soul is the emotional, and spiritual part of you.

When you look at it, the soul is the real you. It is the part of you that cries when somebody near to you dies. The body doesn't care and the mind says everybody has to die, but the soul is the part that grieves. The soul is also the part of you that "battles" wrong and upholds right.

you ask where do the raw materials of the soul come from. To be blunt we do not know. They are part of each of us when we are born. We do know that they are not tangible. We also know that the soul is not part of the mind. My grandson is mentally challenged. However his emotions are intact. And he surely knows the difference between right and wrong.

Often we use the word soul to mean the whole person. e.g. The plane crashed and 100 souls died.

In the Christian doctrine there is a statment that goes something like this "The soul that sins will die"

What does that mean? I believe there are two parts to this. First, as with the airplane, it means the whole person. "The person that sins will die. Have ever sinned against God or man? Then you are going to die.

Second, A person can harden their soul to the point that it is dead. These people seem to have no feelings or emotions. It matters little to them if they sin or not. They almost do not know the difference. They have no conscience. They obey neither God nor man.
When this person dies he is banished from God's presence.

Please remember that because you have sinned you will die someday. Your task is th never let that immaterial part of you ,"your soul" die.


A final note: Because your soul is not material it does not take up "Space" in God's kingdom. Be comforted that if you are dwelling in God's kingdom you will be given a new body.

Answer 3

I think your last question is on the money, compared to the rest. If God were any kind of God at all, then he can create and create, and never lose part of himself. Where did you come about believing what you believe? It could be you are in error in what you learned about God. If you really want to know more, ask Him, he will show you, if you really believe he will. No need to plant soul seeds, and all that. I think he set a couple souls next to him, and made them to have free wills, and not be robots, Those souls chose to go astray, and have paid a price. God is making that right, while still giving these souls a choice. Now it is up to you and me to choose God or not. Choose well.....lots is at stake

Answer 4

Relativistic quantum field theory has worked very well to describe the observed behaviors and properties of elementary particles. But the theory itself only works well when gravity is so weak that it can be neglected. Particle theory only works when we pretend gravity doesn't exist.
General relativity has yielded a wealth of insight into the Universe, the orbits of planets, the evolution of stars and galaxies, the Big Bang and recently observed black holes and gravitational lenses. However, the theory itself only works when we pretend that the Universe is purely classical and that quantum mechanics is not needed in our description of Nature.
String theory is believed to close this gap.
Originally, string theory was proposed as an explanation for the observed relationship between mass and spin for certain particles called hadrons, which include the proton and neutron. Things didn't work out, though, and Quantum Chromodynamics eventually proved a better theory for hadrons.
But particles in string theory arise as excitations of the string, and included in the excitations of a string in string theory is a particle with zero mass and two units of spin.
If there were a good quantum theory of gravity, then the particle that would carry the gravitational force would have zero mass and two units of spin. This has been known by theoretical physicists for a long time. This theorized particle is called the graviton.
This led early string theorists to propose that string theory be applied not as a theory of hadronic particles, but as a theory of quantum gravity, the unfulfilled fantasy of theoretical physics in the particle and gravity communities for decades.
But it wasn't enough that there be a graviton predicted by string theory. One can add a graviton to quantum field theory by hand, but the calculations that are supposed to describe Nature become useless. This is because, as illustrated in the diagram above, particle interactions occur at a single point of spacetime, at zero distance between the interacting particles. For gravitons, the mathematics behaves so badly at zero distance that the answers just don't make sense. In string theory, the strings collide over a small but finite distance, and the answers do make sense.
This doesn't mean that string theory is not without its deficiencies. But the zero distance behavior is such that we can combine quantum mechanics and gravity, and we can talk sensibly about a string excitation that carries the gravitational force.
This was a very great hurdle that was overcome for late 20th century physics, which is why so many young people are willing to learn the grueling complex and abstract mathematics that is necessary to study a quantum theory of interacting strings

Answer 5

You are assuming that souls have a physical substance. I do not believe they do. They are spirit, unbodied, no physical substance, therefore they do not take up space and are not made of "matter" as we understand it. I also do not believe God does what you describe in your question. God is in each of us and also in the universe as a whole, as totally infinite, god is both within and without the physical universe.
Our "soul" is that spark of the divine that connects us to the Whole Divnity, it grows neither larger nor smaller, for a whole, however divided remains a whole as long as no piece is lost, and no "soul" is every "lost" from the whole

Answer 6

He is God. God can do whatever he wants. Two things God cannot do are to lie and to fail. Honestly, I think God has made enough human souls to fufill specific purposes on earth. He will make no more, or no less! See, he is Alpha and Omega and therefor he just is. God has been and God will be because he is energy. Life can exist from energy forms being converted...maybe how God created Earth. In Heaven, we will have all knowledge!

Answer 7

Such huge questions are confusing to respond to even for discovered human beings. i imagine the hot findings of quantum physics say obviously that reason isn't needed and so the universe got here into being by the huge Bang all by itself. So does that advise God also might want to were there all by itself. the debate rages with out a passable clarification. faith is the needed theory which kinds the idea of technology besides as faith. it really is severe time that we provide up arguing and settle for it. in case you pick to comprehend it extra useful then seem on the God fantasy debate between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox. Their arguments are a lot extra consistent and knowledgeable than what we do right here on Yahoo R&S.

Answer 8

If god is an ocean, then we are all individual glasses of God. We come here of our own design and desire to learn specific lessons. When we are done we return to source and rest, then make plans to return in a new situation to learn something else. We are not meant to prove our worthiness - we are already divine and beloved - but we do only get one chance to do this life and learn the lessons we set out to learn here, in this lifetime.

Peace!

Answer 9

Soul come from Allah the only one God.God creates souls whatever He wants it.Allah has omni power and omni know.Allah has many souls in heaven.All souls are sacred.Only God knows what is its raw materials.We humans our knowledge is very very limited especially for unforseen by our eyes.

Answer 10

You're assuming that a soul is a physical thing with a mass and shape.