Would I still have a soul?

Question

Please answer "yes" or "no" to the following.

1) If my legs get cut off do I still have a soul?

2) If my arms are cut off, do I still have a soul?

3) If my hips are removed, do I still have a soul?

4) If (hypothetically speaking), science is able to remove my torso, my heart, my lungs, and replace it with cybernetic parts, do I still have a soul?

5) If (hypothetically speaking), science is able to take my brain, and put it into a cybernetic organism, would I still have a soul?

6) If (hypothetically speaking), science is able to make an exact cybernetic copy of my brain, and is able to transfer my thoughts, experiences, the whole shabang, into the cybernetic brain, would I still have a soul?

Thank-you.

Note: I don't believe in souls. We are nothing more than a set of chemical reactions.

This is not for an argument. I'm sincerely curious what people think when it comes to the "soul" idea. When we have it - when it ceases to exist. WHERE does it exist? etc.

Answer 1

IMO
1). no.
2). no.
3). no.
4). no.
5). no.
6). no.

why? because to me, souls are a lot like leprechauns.

but i would fear my new cyborg overlord. >.>

Answer 2

The answer to all those questions is: As long as you are still breathing, you stil are a living soul. But when your breath depart from you, you are back to your origin. The Bible says, in Genesis 2:7 the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. (in other translation :"and man became a living soul). So if you still have the breath of life, in your nostrils, you are a living soul or a living being. But once your breath of life is out of your body, you are no longer breathing, then you cease to become a living soul, you are a dead corpse which will turn into dust or soil.

Answer 3

1) Yes, that wouldn't effect your soul...your soul is inside you in a spiritual sense. It's part of your brain.
2) Same answer
3) Same answer
4) Same answer
5) Same answer
6) If your thoughts & experiences, etc...are transferred into the cybernetic brain, then, yes, you would still have a soul. That's what makes up your soul in my opinion. Of course, opinions are like as*holes...everybody has one.

Answer 4

Why do you say "Please answer "yes" or "no" to a question you are not prepared to receive an answer to? You only want an argument. It looks like you feel so superior to we Christians that you feel it must be up to you to enlighten us.
Well you tried but it's all rubbish for one thing and for another the "soul" is the Mind, the Will, and the Emotions. I think you wanted to contend with us over ones spirit. The Spirit of a person is what lives on (either in Heaven or Hell) and this fact is not contingent on your willful reception of it. It is a fact.
MERRY CHRISTMAS.

Answer 5

YES to ALL of the above!

You don't have a soul- YOU ARE a soul!

Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Answer 6

The word "soul" has two meanings.

If it is intended poetically, it means your mind or consciousness. The accumuluation of knowledge, feelings, memories that make you an individual. It perishes when your physical body dies.

If it is intended as a ghost that is somewhere in you now and then it separates from your body when you die, then it's a figment of someone's imagination. It started in prehistory and it's still with us!

Answer 7

Your soul is made of a pure material that cannot be destroyed by mere earthly means. It is eternal and everlasting. Try cutting the beam of a flashlight light with a pair of scissors and you'll know what I mean.

Answer 8

I think, therefore I am. The rest just depends on how much you want to ponder the imponderable. Pretty much a waste of time. But we humans do that a lot.

Answer 9

There is no such thing as a soul separate from the corporeal body.

Answer 10

Your unbelief saddens my,but your search for the soul is interesting.The soul is not physically attached to the body.If you believe,you can feel your soul.