When does the spirit enter the human body?

Question

Before birth, after birth- when? If you think it is in utero then at what point in mom's pregnancy?

Answer 1

at the time of birth

Answer 2

What spirit do you speak of?

If it is the spirit of life, it is already contained in the sperm and the egg when they meet. It is the very energy that makes the cell alive. According to the Bible, the spirit of life is the same found in all living form, with none being greater than the other.

If you are speaking of the soul, the Bible says the soul is the blood, which is formed right after the formation of the heart. So, nothing enter the body, but is present from the very beginning. The child inherits the spirit of life from their parents, than forms the soul from the genetic material provided. They are a living soul from the very beginning.

Answer 3

From the point of conception, to the moment of birth. It depends on the spirit. If they haven't already, they must enter at birth.

Answer 4

Actual assumption is usually at the moment of birth.
However the spirit can be and usually is in the vicinity (not in the fetus) from about 5 or 6 month into the pregnancy.

Answer 5

Actually the mystics (Jewish Kabbalists, Druids, Hawaiians, Lakota Indians, Celts, Mongolian shamans, Taoists, etc) acknowledge three parts of the soul.

Kabbalists call them the nefesh, ruach, neshammah
Hawaiians call them unihipili, uhane and 'aumakua
Lakota indians call them nagi, nagapi, and tunkashila.
Mongolian shamans call them the ami, suns and suld.

These three parts of the soul in freudian psychology are called the id, ego, and super ego, and in current psychology is called sub conscious, conscious, and superconscious mind.

The subconscious mind enters the fetus at conception.

The super conscious mind enters the aura at birth, and around the age of 3 or 5 the conscious mind begins developing, and by the age of 7-9; the conscious mind has taken it;s rightful place in the body.

Answer 6

At the time of birth. Possibly just before. Although the soul already has claim to the body, it doesn't 'move in' until the body is finished being built!

Answer 7

At the moment of conception. Without a spirit the body cannot grow.

Answer 8

I don't believe that the spirit ever "enters" the body. It develops as the brain develops, and there is not one specific time point for this but it is a gradual process.

Answer 9

The immortal soul is given by God at conception..... The Holy Spirit(God) will enter any who comes to Him in The Way He prescribes... that can only be when one is of age and knows to be accountable to God.... only a few ever come to God as He prescribes. Only those who come to God as He proscribes will receive God's free gift of Salvation and enter Heaven..... with the exception of young children and those mentaly not capable of being accountable. They will have a place in Heaven also.

Answer 10

Psalms 139: 13-16: "For you yourself produced my kidneys;
You kept me screened off in the belly of my mother.
14 I shall laud you because in a fear-inspiring way I am wonderfully made.
Your works are wonderful,
As my soul is very well aware.
15 My bones were not hidden from you
When I was made in secret,
When I was woven in the lowest parts of the earth.
16 Your eyes saw even the embryo of me,
And in your book all its parts were down in writing,
As regards the days when they were formed
And there was not yet one among them.

That is a psalm from King David. He knew that he was important to God even as he was being formed.

There are Scriptures that say the life is in the blood. I am going to add a few Scriptures that may help you in deciding what you believe on this matter.

Leviticus 17:11a: "For the soul of the flesh is in the blood,"

Genesis 2:7: "And Jehovah 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." (we are a soul, we don't possess one)

Psalms 146:3 & 4: "Do not put YOUR trust in nobles,
Nor in the son of earthling man, to whom no salvation belongs.
4 His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground;
In that day his thoughts do perish. (in this case it is referring to spirit as breath, and not something that goes on to have conscious thought, because it says thoughts perish at the point of death)

Exodus 21:22 & 23: "And in case men should struggle with each other and they really hurt a pregnant woman and her children do come out but no fatal accident occurs, he is to have damages imposed upon him without fail according to what the owner of the woman may lay upon him; and he must give it through the justices. 23 But if a fatal accident should occur, then you must give soul for soul," (this shows that the unborn life is a life that is important to God.)

We can recieve God's holy spirit, but we can NOT have it(God's holy spirit), and still live. So it would seem that at the moment of conception the unborn child begins life. There is growth taking place, and life is not dependant upon breath, something separate from that living organism does not enter the body at some point and make that person who it is, but rather as the fetus grows it is a living soul, and God knows even the formation of it.