What is the soul?

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Answer 1

the soul is the self of all, it is that on which existence is projected on and reflected in the mind,much like the sun reflected in pots of water ,each pot has a perfect reflection of the sun(soul) but the cause of the reflection the sun(soul/God) is the real self or soul

Answer 2

The soul is the expression of the life of spirit in the body, Genesis 2/7. Man is tripartite in that he has a spirit, a soul and a body, 1 Thessalonians 5/23. When the body dies the soul dies only in the sense that the life of the spirit is no longer expressed in the body. The things that you can see are temporal, but the things that you cannot see are eternal, 2 Corinthians 4/18. Your spirit is eternal and will return to God, Ecclesiastes 12/7, where it will either be in His presence in safe keeping John 14/3, Philippians 1/23, or be held in custody until the Day of Judgement, 1 Peter 3/19, 2 Peter 2/9, Hebrews 9/27. The soul is still a distinct part of man from the spirit even without the body as can be seen from Hebrews 4/12, Revelation 6/9, 20/4. Yet it pertains especially to a body for which it was designed and created, and without a body we are not completed, 2 Corinthians 5/3. Thus in the resurrection a new body fitted for the new life will be given, 2 Corinthians 5/1-4, 1 Corinthians 15/35-53.

Answer 3

The question of death is closely tied to creation. How were we created? 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 BEING."

The Bible does not teach that God placed a soul in us at creation. It specifically states that God formed man(body) out of the dust of the ground, and breathed into him the breath of life, and man became a living soul(person or being).

Equation Form, body+breath= living soul.

Is the soul mortal or immortal? EZEK.18:4
"BEHOLD, ARE SOULS ARE MINE; THE SOUL OF THE FATHER AS WELL AS THE SOUL OF THE SON IS MINE; THE SOUL WHO SINS SHALL DIE."

"Mortal" means subject to death.
"Immortal" means not subject to death, imperishable.

Who only has immortality? 1TIM.6:15
",,,HE WHO IS THE BLESSED AND ONLY PONTENTATE, THE KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS, WHO ALONE HAS IMMORTALITY, DWELLING IN UNAPPROACHABLE LIGHT, WHOM NO MAN HAS SEEN OR CAN SEE, TO WHOM BE HONOR AND EVERLASTING POWER. AMEN."

Answer 4

The soul is what makes you unique as a sentient being. It is your collective essence.

Answer 5

Some daft idea cooked up by relgious cult leaders to con people into doing what they want and allow irrational thinking

Answer 6

You're inner being, your essence.

Answer 7

Genesis 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.
Genesis 2:6-8 (in Context) Genesis 2 (Whole Chapter)
Genesis 12:5
And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.
Genesis 12:4-6 (in Context) Genesis 12 (Whole Chapter)
Genesis 12:13
Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.
Genesis 12:12-14 (in Context) Genesis 12 (Whole Chapter)
Genesis 17:14
And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
Genesis 17:13-15 (in Context) Genesis 17 (Whole Chapter)
Genesis 19:20
Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
Genesis 19:19-21 (in Context) Genesis 19 (Whole Chapter)
Genesis 27:4
And make me savoury meat, such as I love, and bring it to me, that I may eat; that my soul may bless thee before I die.
Genesis 27:3-5 (in Context) Genesis 27 (Whole Chapter)
Genesis 27:19
And Jacob said unto his father, I am Esau thy first born; I have done according as thou badest me: arise, I pray thee, sit and eat of my venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Genesis 27:18-20 (in Context) Genesis 27 (Whole Chapter)
Genesis 27:25
And he said, Bring it near to me, and I will eat of my son's venison, that my soul may bless thee. And he brought it near to him, and he did eat: and he brought him wine and he drank.
Genesis 27:24-26 (in Context) Genesis 27 (Whole Chapter)
Genesis 27:31
And he also had made savoury meat, and brought it unto his father, and said unto his father, Let my father arise, and eat of his son's venison, that thy soul may bless me.
Genesis 27:30-32 (in Context) Genesis 27 (Whole Chapter)
Genesis 34:3
And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.
Genesis 34:2-4 (in Context) Genesis 34 (Whole Chapter)
Genesis 34:8
And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her him to wife.
Genesis 34:7-9 (in Context) Genesis 34 (Whole Chapter)
Genesis 35:18
And it came to pass, as her soul was in departing, (for she died) that she called his name Benoni: but his father called him Benjamin.
Genesis 35:17-19 (in Context) Genesis 35 (Whole Chapter)
Genesis 42:21
And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Genesis 42:20-22 (in Context) Genesis 42 (Whole Chapter)
Genesis 46:15
These be the sons of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob in Padanaram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.
Genesis 46:14-16 (in Context) Genesis 46 (Whole Chapter)
Genesis 46:18
These are the sons of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to Leah his daughter, and these she bare unto Jacob, even sixteen souls.
Genesis 46:17-19 (in Context) Genesis 46 (Whole Chapter)
Genesis 46:22
These are the sons of Rachel, which were born to Jacob: all the souls were fourteen.
Genesis 46:21-23 (in Context) Genesis 46 (Whole Chapter)
Genesis 46:25
These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.
Genesis 46:24-26 (in Context) Genesis 46 (Whole Chapter)
Genesis 46:26
All the souls that came with Jacob into Egypt, which came out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives, all the souls were threescore and six;
Genesis 46:25-27 (in Context) Genesis 46 (Whole Chapter)
Genesis 46:27
And the sons of Joseph, which were born him in Egypt, were two souls: all the souls of the house of Jacob, which came into Egypt, were threescore and ten.
Genesis 46:26-28 (in Context) Genesis 46 (Whole Chapter)
Genesis 49:6
O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.
Genesis 49:5-7 (in Context) Genesis 49 (Whole Chapter)
Exodus 1:5
And all the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls: for Joseph was in Egypt already.
Exodus 1:4-6 (in Context) Exodus 1 (Whole Chapter)
Exodus 12:4
And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
Exodus 12:3-5 (in Context) Exodus 12 (Whole Chapter)
Exodus 12:15
Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
Exodus 12:14-16 (in Context) Exodus 12 (Whole Chapter)
Exodus 12:19
Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
Exodus 12:18-20 (in Context) Exodus 12 (Whole Chapter)
Exodus 30:12
When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the LORD, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.
Exodus 30:11-13 (in Context) Exodus 30 (Whole Chapter)
Exodus 30:15
The rich shall not give more, and the poor shall not give less than half a shekel, when they give an offering unto the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Exodus 30:14-16 (in Context) Exodus 30 (Whole Chapter)
Exodus 30:16
And thou shalt take the atonement money of the children of Israel, and shalt appoint it for the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; that it may be a memorial unto the children of Israel before the LORD, to make an atonement for your souls.
Exodus 30:15-17 (in Context) Exodus 30 (Whole Chapter)
Exodus 31:14
Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Exodus 31:13-15 (in Context) Exodus 31 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 4:2
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a soul shall sin through ignorance against any of the commandments of the LORD concerning things which ought not to be done, and shall do against any of them:
Leviticus 4:1-3 (in Context) Leviticus 4 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 5:1
And if a soul sin, and hear the voice of swearing, and is a witness, whether he hath seen or known of it; if he do not utter it, then he shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus 5:1-3 (in Context) Leviticus 5 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 5:2
Or if a soul touch any unclean thing, whether it be a carcase of an unclean beast, or a carcase of unclean cattle, or the carcase of unclean creeping things, and if it be hidden from him; he also shall be unclean, and guilty.
Leviticus 5:1-3 (in Context) Leviticus 5 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 5:4
Or if a soul swear, pronouncing with his lips to do evil, or to do good, whatsoever it be that a man shall pronounce with an oath, and it be hid from him; when he knoweth of it, then he shall be guilty in one of these.
Leviticus 5:3-5 (in Context) Leviticus 5 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 5:15
If a soul commit a trespass, and sin through ignorance, in the holy things of the LORD; then he shall bring for his trespass unto the LORD a ram without blemish out of the flocks, with thy estimation by shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass offering.
Leviticus 5:14-16 (in Context) Leviticus 5 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 5:17
And if a soul sin, and commit any of these things which are forbidden to be done by the commandments of the LORD; though he wist it not, yet is he guilty, and shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus 5:16-18 (in Context) Leviticus 5 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 6:2
If a soul sin, and commit a trespass against the LORD, and lie unto his neighbour in that which was delivered him to keep, or in fellowship, or in a thing taken away by violence, or hath deceived his neighbour;
Leviticus 6:1-3 (in Context) Leviticus 6 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 7:18
And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.
Leviticus 7:17-19 (in Context) Leviticus 7 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 7:20
But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain unto the LORD, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 7:19-21 (in Context) Leviticus 7 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 7:21
Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the LORD, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 7:20-22 (in Context) Leviticus 7 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 7:25
For whosoever eateth the fat of the beast, of which men offer an offering made by fire unto the LORD, even the soul that eateth it shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 7:24-26 (in Context) Leviticus 7 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 7:27
Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.
Leviticus 7:26-28 (in Context) Leviticus 7 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 16:29
And this shall be a statute for ever unto you: that in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and do no work at all, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger that sojourneth among you:
Leviticus 16:28-30 (in Context) Leviticus 16 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 16:31
It shall be a sabbath of rest unto you, and ye shall afflict your souls, by a statute for ever.
Leviticus 16:30-32 (in Context) Leviticus 16 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 17:10
And whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn among you, that eateth any manner of blood; I will even set my face against that soul that eateth blood, and will cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus 17:9-11 (in Context) Leviticus 17 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 17:11
For the life of the flesh is in the blood: and I have given it to you upon the altar to make an atonement for your souls: for it is the blood that maketh an atonement for the soul.
Leviticus 17:10-12 (in Context) Leviticus 17 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 17:12
Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.
Leviticus 17:11-13 (in Context) Leviticus 17 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 17:15
And every soul that eateth that which died of itself, or that which was torn with beasts, whether it be one of your own country, or a stranger, he shall both wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.
Leviticus 17:14-16 (in Context) Leviticus 17 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 18:29
For whosoever shall commit any of these abominations, even the souls that commit them shall be cut off from among their people.
Leviticus 18:28-30 (in Context) Leviticus 18 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 19:8
Therefore every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the hallowed thing of the LORD: and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.
Leviticus 19:7-9 (in Context) Leviticus 19 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 20:6
And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.
Leviticus 20:5-7 (in Context) Leviticus 20 (Whole Chapter)
Leviticus 20:25
Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.
Leviticus 20:24-26 (in Context) Leviticus 20 (Whole Chapter)