If humans have souls, wouldn't every mass in the universe have one?

Question

All humans are made of is dust and water. wouldn't that make planets, rocks, and everything have a soul too?

A lot of people have been answering that inanimate objects aren't alive. Our thoughts, our conscience is just energy traveling the nerves in our brain.

Answer 1

To attempt to answer this correctly I suppose you would have to first know what a soul is. Most people believe that the soul is the part of the body that doesn't die when the physical body dies. However, this is incorrect. The soul is the physical part of the body (which dies or "rests") while the spirit is the part of the body that does not die but goes back to God who gave it.

"In the Hebrew mind we are composed of three entities; body, breath and mind. The body is the flesh, bones and blood, the vessel. The mind is ones thoughts and emotions. The breath is ones character, what makes a person who they are. The soul is the whole of the person, the unity of the body, breath and mind. It is not some immaterial spiritual entity. It is you, all of you, your whole being or self."

Therefore, if the soul is "body, breath and mind," every mass in the universe could not have a soul because inanimate objects do not have breath or a mind.

Answer 2

I was an atheist for 28 years and never believed in a personal soul or in God or anything like that. I had a lot of deep beliefs and definitely though about the exact thing you are talking about. I hesitate to explain to you about this because of the fear of leading you to false conclusions. I will though with the CLEAR DISCLAIMER that I had a false belief that was brought about through a life time of unknowingly being spoonfed Naturalistic and Humanistic religious doctrines. Our society is filled to the brim with these teachins and propaganda designed to sway the individuals thinking and for social programming. So my philosophies as an ignorant atheist were completely wrong. I figured that the reason that I was born here and now in this body and in this life was merely a moment in a continuum. I figured that I was just, in the generic sense, life. Where ever life was, that is were I would be. I would live every life ever lived and I would always just be. If most everybody died on the earth and I died to I would just experience the next available life. This incudes all pants and animals as well, but considering that humas have a much more acute sense of self, (kind of) that it was just the good odds in the quantum continuum that I was here and now as a human, or just dumb luck. This was satanicly influenced thinking. Satan wants us to believe that we are gods or that we will be a god or anything of that sort. Since that time I have embarked on a long process of study into the world we live in. I used to only love science and evolution and stuff like that. I have always been into phylosophy though. I started studying the world and learning from more and different sources than I ever had before. Most everything I studied or was taught was from atheistic Humanistic people. I did not realize the gravity of this before and what that does to a developing minds world view and how that world view dictates ones perseption of reality and truth. Because of my studies I have came to see that this world was created by God. That evolution is an impossible fairy tale. A dream thought up by religous Naturalist and Humanists. And that there is an actual satan, the devil and he has temporary control over this planet. We are all raised on his teachings and learn his precepts. We will see shortly where that is going to lead us, I am confident of that. If I could give you any advise, study your butt off. Learn from different sources. Learn some conspiritoial theories and things - alot of it is pretty well documented and scientific. Don't exclude God from your mind in any possibility. If you make an absolute hard desision never to include God, you will remain blind to a whole different set of facts, observations, and interpretations. In my opinion, you will exclude yourself from the truth. If you like to read I would recommend reading a lot of creation science books and other Christian material. You may be suprised. Everybody has their God. Darwin is a god of the evolutionist. If you really study his work and his thinking and his science you will see that it is infact pretty silly. He observed a minor variation in some birds and concluded that this was evidence that the bird was related to the plant. You will also see and should learn and hear what the critics of evolution have to say about the evidence. Your eyes will be opened up to a new point of view. It is a healthy thing. Even If you don''t believe it you will still learn something. It is a healthy part of science. I don't understand why or how the evolutionists in here get so offended by a contrary point of view. It is a good control mechanism and helps sharpen the truth or our understanding of it. If you look back a couple decades ago, (even still today in some text books) you will see them teaching that a human embryo goes through a pig stage, a fish stage, and a couple others. I even saw this in a nursing book. So, as any good scientist will know, peer review is a healthy thing. Being reviewed in and only by the establishment is not a good thing. Especially when that establishment becomes an industrial complex. So, I would say that you are here now because God chose to put you here. This world, including you and I, are in despret need of a savior to save us from the Right and Holy Judgment of God. That savior is Jesus Christ. I would have to say that this is the scientific and absolute truth.

Answer 3

Well, technically we are made of a little bit more than dust and water, but if you believe in Christianity than we were created from dust and water. (And if you're female, a rib.) I think that "soul" means different things for different people. I like to think that when I die there's an invisible spirit thing of myself that rises out of my body and just sort of surveys the scene, then just goes on up. It's a pleasant thought. I never thought that maybe rocks did that too. Rocks are inanimate, so they really couldn't die and eject their souls. Man, I'm really puzzled over this one! I'm anxious to see the answers on this one.

Answer 4

That's a good question. According to the spiritual philosophy I hold, Animism, all things have a spirit, an energy, a life force. It doesn't matter if they are people, trees, or stones. All things are alive in their own way.
I am amused by the criticism of my views, that I receive from people who believe in a Universal Creator. All I can ask them is if all things came from the same Source, then aren't they all imbued with the same properties?
As you say, it's all water, and dust.

Answer 5

I don't believe in classic definition of souls, but I'll play devil's advocate (so to speak).

Yes, all forms of mass (and possibly energy) have souls. But it is only the unique construction of the human forms of mass (and/or energy) that allows a perception of the soul. Just like only certain physical conditions of mass allow the perception of the color blue, or particular wavelengths of sound, or ???.

As such, humans are uniquely affected by the presence of their soul even as dogs are uniquely affected by a dog whistle. Dogs (if they could talk) would swear there is a noise, where humans would deny it's possiblity (until they artificially stretch their ability to perceive its existance with machinery). Well, humans perceive a soul, where rocks are simply not capable of that perception.

How's that for a late night attempt?

Answer 6

There is a very big difference a human being on a planet abundant with life and a rock floating around in space!

Answer 7

Hindu philosophy says every thing, whether living or non living things have souls. You are born into different forms based on your Karma, If your previous birth actions are bad, you are born as animal and if they are terrible actions,
then you are born as inanimate thing like a stone.

Answer 8

I think you have it backward. Humans ARE souls!! And we have bodies. Attributes of a soul are the ability to reason and make choices. Those are the things that seperate us from everything else.

Answer 9

Great question... my STAR!!

I have always wondered whether there is anything inanimate... is it not possible that the inanimate things as we believe them to be, are operating on a different time-scale.. too large that we can not discern on our time frame? Well just anything is possible!!

Answer 10

You have to define "soul". Hydrocarbon lifeforms are a far cry from silicatous structures. Besides, who is to say they don't? Have you never heard the expression, "soul of the earth"?