Aren't we the soul and it is the body we posses?
2006-12-02 02:00:30 · 13 answers · asked by NONAME 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Other - Society & Culture
Ain't that a poser?
The sensation you're talking about is the most basic sensation of conscious self-awareness, and it's just a part of consciousness. Consciousness is an emergent phenomenon of a complex brain. We can't break it down any further than that. The idea that there is "a" soul that we "possess," is the way a mind in the habit of thinking about objects must conceptualize it. There isn't any way to symbolize or describe the sensation of self-awareness in language, because by its nature that sensation only exists as our direct experience. It's like the sensation of a color - you know what red is, but what is the sensation of red? How do you know that my red is the same as your red? You don't; the sensation is an experience, not a material thing, or even a spirit-object.
If you decide that experience is primary and that bodies are simply things experienced by them, you wouldn't be technically wrong. So, yes :shrug:
2006-12-02 02:14:55 · answer #1 · answered by zilmag 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Understand the concept and definition of soul... you would be wise my son!
At that time of the Big Bang ... the total Cosmos is but the size us of half a thumb ... everything we call and know as Brahmaand (the mighty Cosmos)! Something unbelievable from the point of view of a common man ... yet, it is a true fact of life explained in detail in the Bhagavad Gita also.
This size of the Cosmos ... a cluster of pure energy ... the combined forces of all purified Atmans souls in the Brahmaand (Cosmos) ... is what we know as God, the Almighty Creator. The total sum of all purified Atmans souls at a given period of time remains constant and this we designate as the power of God, the Almighty Creator.
Every Atman soul is but a miniscule form of the bigger Atman soul, the Parmatman ... God, the mighty Creator himself. Atman soul is but a part of the puzzle ... God, the Almighty Creator being the whole puzzle. No clustering of thoughts ... everything is absolutely clear!
After the Big Bang has occurred ... all Atmans souls get scattered all over the Cosmos ... their prime purpose being to get a body so that they can cleanse themselves of all the impurities. For this it has to pass through a chain of 8.4 million manifestations ... a total life span of about 96.4 million years. Every Atman soul starts on its cosmic journey as an amoeba and subsequently as a mosquito, futther evoluting into a tree ... then an animal and finally into a human being.
That is all there is to life ... the small span of 70 years in the life of a human being is nothing compared to the total travel of 96.4 million years ... every Atman the soul within has to travel in a cosmic life span.
When the body decays and the Atman soul looks forward to a new body ... there are three stages it has to undergo ... the first stage being that the Atman the soul within immediately gets a new body ... if the manifestation occurs immediately then there is no Swarga Heaven or Naraka hell.... the Atman the soul within has to pass through. These stages are bypassed by the Atman the soul within. More on soul here- http://www.vijaykumar.com/atman_and_definition.html
2006-12-04 05:59:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From "The Ryrie Study Bible", Matthew 10:28 says, " And do not fear those who kill the body, but are unable to kill the soul;...." This is proof that our soul lives on, even after death. The second part of your question: The body is our shell, and our soul is us. We inhabit the "shell" until death.
2006-12-02 10:11:27 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes.....we are a soul clothed in an earthly body....the soul is permanent, the body only temporary.
2006-12-02 10:06:38 · answer #4 · answered by Chef Bob 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ah yes, Grasshopper. Indeed, you are not "this" body. It is only a temporary husk until we can return to glory. Praise be to God: Father, Son and Holy Spirit.
2006-12-02 10:04:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Biblically, either position is incorrect.
soul = (body) + (life-force)
As a parallel, consider:
car = (body) + (working engine)
The engine itself is NOT a car; the body by itself is NOT a car.
2006-12-02 10:11:35 · answer #6 · answered by flandargo 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we are both the body and the soul, the two of them equally noble
2006-12-02 10:03:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It makes for a happy ending.
2006-12-02 10:02:06 · answer #8 · answered by Captain Jack 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's nice to think we can float away after death. Silly, but nice.
2006-12-02 10:06:34 · answer #9 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hmm.. no, I believe it's our life essence... our spirit.
It doesn't matter what physical form it is in, it will always be the same soul.
That's what I believe.
2006-12-02 10:03:16 · answer #10 · answered by Katelyn 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋