Christians: Does this woman have two souls?

Question

I asked this before a couple of times, but I like it so much I want more people to answer it. This lady started as two separate embryos in the womb that later fused into one. She now has two sets of DNA. Some cells have one, some the other. How many souls does she have? See the links below.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3264467.stm

If 1, what happened to the other one since neither died?

I have no idea what a soul is. I don't think they exist.

Kerry: There were supposedly 2 souls at first becauyse there were two babies. They combined to form one baby. What happened to the other soul?

Answer 1

That is really interesting. Unfortunately, I don't have an answer for you because I am not God. Maybe God just wanted doctors and scientists to better understand DNA and is offering clues to us. I will assume that since she is still only one person, she has one soul. God knows what happened to the other soul because He knew this would occur.

May God Bless you.

Answer 2

Its still, at birth, one human. Kinda think about it like a snickers bar, nuts, carmel nougat and chocolate, many ingredients but one candy bar.


Additional Info. regarding what is the soul. The breath of life that God breathes into us. Let's use a simple illustration—a homily, just as Jesus might have used—to describe the human and animal body, the soul and spirit. A common unlighted wax candle can be used to illustrate the inanimate human body or corpse. Touching a burning match to the wick the candle ignites. This is, in a picture, much like the spark of life originally imparted by the Creator. The flame or light given off by the candle corresponds to the sentient being—the intelligence, or soul. The oxygenized atmosphere which unites with the carbon of the candle in supporting the flame corresponds to the “breath of life” or “spirit of life” which unites with the physical organism in producing “soul” or “intelligent existence.” Should an accident occur which would destroy the candle, the flame would cease. So also the human “life” or “soul” ceases when the human body is destroyed—whether by consumption or accident.

Similarly, if the supply of oxygen is cut off, the flame ceases just as if the candle were destroyed. Whether an extinguisher is used or a snuffer, the results are the same: the light is extinguished. If the breath of life is cut off from man, the reaction is the same: the soul, life, existence ceases. So it is that the body continues to exist, even though a person may die of drowning or asphyxiation. The lighted candle might be used to ignite other candles, but once extinguished the candle can neither re-ignite itself or be used to ignite other candles. Again, this is very similar to the human life. Under God's provision the human can propagate its species so long as it lives. But as soon as the spark of life is cut off the soul or being has ceased and all power to think, to feel, or to propagate has ended. The Scriptures use this illustration in connection with Jacob's household: “All the souls that came out of the loins of Jacob were seventy souls” (Exodus 1:5). Jacob received his life as well as his physical body. The product of these two were his “soul” or “intelligent being.” It had been passed on from Isaac, Abraham, and thence from Adam to whom alone God had directly imparted life. Jacob passed the life, organism, and soul to his posterity. So it has been with all mankind ever since.

A candle may be re-lit by anyone possessing a flame. But the human body wastes away, returns to the dust from which it was taken, when it is deprived of the breath of life. The human body cannot be rekindled except by divine power—a miracle. The promise of resurrection, therefore, is a promise of rekindling the soul, existence, the life. Since there can be no life without a suitable body, the promise of a resurrection also implies new bodies: the former ones having returned to the elements from which they were made. Furthermore, when we consider that the resurrection of the dead will be much like awakening from sleep, then the moment of reawakening will be—to the person being awakened—like the very next moment after his death. “For there is neither wisdom, knowledge nor device in the grave” (Ecclesiastes 9:10). The body in which a person awakes will be practically the same as that in which he died (although not composed of the same atoms of matter). In the hands of the Creator one atom of dust is as good as another in this great work. Thus the apostle says, “Thou sowest not that body which shall be.” The bodies of the world, as they shall be when awakened, will be really new bodies, in the sense that they will be different atoms of matter; but they will be old bodies, in the sense that they will be duplicates of those that died and went to dust. We cannot wonder that the worldly mind, which does not know God or his power, quails at the thought of a resurrection. It will be a stupendous work, more wonderful by far than man's original creation. It will be witnessed by men and by angels as the grandest exhibition ever given of Divine omnipotence.

Answer 3

She would have one soul. The physical body and spiritual body are two different entities. However, the physical and spiritual join together at the start we call birth. They are again separated at the point we call death. They will become joined again after the Resurrection of the body and spirit.

Answer 4

First tell me what exactly constitutes a soul and how to detect it existence

Answer 5

This should be interesting to hear