Do all, none, or some primates have souls?

Question

Please explain which primates, if any, have souls. If the answer is "some", please explain which species and why.

Answer 1

None, not even the 6 billion plus human primates on this planet.

Answer 2

Every living creature, including humans, ARE SOULS! We don't have souls- WE ARE SOULS!

Gen 2:7 And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man BECAME a living soul.

Ecc 3:19 Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.
Ecc 3:20 All go to one place, all are of the dust, and all will be turned to dust again.

Answer 3

This is a theological question, not a scientific one, so the answer will depend on who you ask. Conventional Christian teaching is that only humans have souls, and no 'lower' animals of any kind. This is based on the doctrine of special creation, that mankind is created in the image of God - that is, the spiritual image because God is not limited by a physical form. The existence, let alone the characteristics, of a soul have never been objectively documented; but almost by definition this proves nothing one way or the other.

Answer 4

The answer is All. Why would you think "some" and not "all".

Living things have a soul; it's not only primates.

Answer 5

Yes, all of them. In the world of invisible things (spiritual) there are indicators. Life of an organism indicates the presence of a soul.

In philosophical terms animals have a sensative soul and plants have a vegitative soul. It is believed that their souls are mortal and will go into non-existence upon death.

Human beings, angels, and demons have an intellectual soul. We are capable of self-awareness. Our souls are considered immortal because of this.

Some people think our soul goes into non-existence (dies) when the body dies. This is a misinterpretation of the scriptures. There is spiritual death (evil) that refers to the soul dying. The soul living (holy) after death refers to a soul's attempt to follow the will of God.

Answer 6

The bible explains that both humans and animals don't HAVE souls, but ARE souls.

Gen. 2:7: "God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul." (Notice that this does not say that man was given a soul but that he became a soul, a living person.) (The part of the Hebrew word here rendered "soul" is ne´phesh. KingJames, AS, and Dy agree with that rendering. RS, JB, NAB read "being." NE says "creature." Kx reads "person.")

1 Cor. 15:45: "It is even so written: 'The first man Adam became a living soul.' The last Adam became a life-giving spirit." (So the Christian Greek Scriptures agree with the Hebrew Scriptures as to what the soul is.) KJ, AS, Dy, JB, NAB, and Kx also read "soul." RS, NE, and TEV say "being.")

1 Pet. 3:20: "In Noah's days . . . a few people, that is, eight souls, were carried safely through the water." (The Greek word here translated "souls" is psy·khai´, the plural form of psy·khe´. KJ, AS, Dy, and Kx also read "souls." JB and TEV say "people"; RS, NE, and NAB use "persons.")

Gen. 9:5: "Besides that, your blood of your souls [or, "lives"; Hebrew, from ne´phesh] shall I ask back." (Here the soul is said to have blood.)

Josh. 11:11: "They went striking every soul [Hebrew, ne´phesh] that was in it with the edge of the sword." (The soul is here shown to be something that can be touched by the sword, so these souls could not have been spirits.)


Gen. 1:20, 21, 24, 25: "God went on to say: 'Let the waters swarm forth a swarm of living souls* . . . ' And God proceeded to create the great sea monsters and every living soul that moves about, which the waters swarmed forth according to their kinds, and every winged flying creature according to its kind. . . . And God went on to say: 'Let the earth put forth living souls according to their kinds . . . ' And God proceeded to make the wild beast of the earth according to its kind and the domestic animal according to its kind and every moving animal of the ground according to its kind." (*In Hebrew the word here is ne´phesh. Ro reads "soul." Some translations use the rendering "creature[s].")

Lev. 24:17, 18: "In case a man strikes any soul [Hebrew, ne´phesh] of mankind fatally, he should be put to death without fail. And the fatal striker of the soul [Hebrew, ne´phesh] of a domestic animal should make compensation for it, soul for soul." (Notice that the same Hebrew word for soul is applied to both mankind and animals.)

Rev. 16:3: "It became blood as of a dead man, and every living soul* died, yes, the things in the sea." (Thus the Christian Greek Scriptures also show animals to be souls.) (*In Greek the word here is psy·khe´. KJ, AS, and Dy render it "soul." Some translators use the term "creature" or "thing.")

Answer 7

The soul consists of your intellect, mind, will, emotions. The spirit is separate and only humans have a spirit because we were the only ones of creation to be made in Gods image.

Answer 8

the soul is a technical for a emboyment of a type of spirit like thing, primates mourn for their dead just like we do. but the fact of the soul was created when religion was created and thought and control for evolution was disappated

Answer 9

The soul is the mind the will and the emotion.The spirit is the part that lives on. Which one do you mean?

Answer 10

PLEASE define 'soul' ? ? ?

As to that essence that Humans Possess, any primate or any living thing does not have that Quality. Perhaps this will help?

(Genesis 1:26-27-28) And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

(Gen 1:27) So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

(Gen 1:28) And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.

Thanks, RR, http://home.att.net/~roger459