Then why is it when someone gets brain damage they can lose all of this? They can lose their memories, their general thinking power can be reduced to that of an animal, and their personality can be completly changed. Shouldn't the soul of the person remain the same no matter what?
2007-03-20 09:29:59 · 9 answers · asked by Ashton 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Modern science clearly shows that all of those are in the cerebral cortex. Not the soul. Damage to the cerebral cortex affects those areas. Yes. The soul should always remain the same.
2007-03-20 09:33:26 · answer #1 · answered by Justsyd 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
All such things that a person has, are stored in the brain.
I know someone who used to have grand mal epileptic seizures that would wipe out not only their entire memory of information, but also her ability to recognize people & places. Even those she lived with. Even their own home. Whenever she 'came to', she was frightened to be told that she was: in her own home, with family, or friends, because every one & thing registered as entirely new to her! With help, she learned to tell such ones to only say, "I'm here for you until you don't want me to stay", & nothing more. This, because anything else triggered the very real fear of having been kidnapped, & lied to, by potentially bad people! After a period of time, the ability to recognize & recall would Slowly return. But, that was truly 'terror from within' time!
The only reason brain damage can cause such problems, is because we ARE our soul, not an 'extension' of it.
"Adam BECAME a living soul." -- Genesis 2:7
Do You Have an Immortal Spirit?
http://www.watchtower.org/e/20010715/article_02.htm
2007-03-21 22:18:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
great question -- shows that the soul concept is rather a projection of folk's ego/self the place, while confronted with the death of the physique, people create an theory that maintains the life of their character in a bodyless state observed as the 'soul'. while people adventure enlightenment, all of those desires for the continuation of this constrained self (our physique, our character, our individuality) are considered as stupid and the top is that the guy is rather a One Self whose point of know-how and life some distance exceeds man or woman human know-how and being. yet, given the phantasm that we are those constrained selves, we dangle directly to the only factor we expect of we are and, hence, invent concepts which will a technique or the different make this man or woman know-how/character genuine (the two while the physique/guy or woman is 'alive' and while this is 'lifeless'). an in depth look on the mechanisms of the physique will make us comprehend that memory, individuality, and what we expect of of as know-how can no longer join the genuine Self (or perhaps a soul may be without them on condition that memory, cognition, character, etc. are all from the strategies -- merely think of of what happens as a infant grows or while somebody gets strategies injury).
2016-10-19 04:41:09 · answer #3 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
this is like asking:
If the driver of a car is the one who pushes the brake pedal, than why is it the car doesnt stop if the brake line is cut?
the soul *does* retain all of it and remain the same.
damage to the physical body can interfere with it acting on those intents and knowlege.
and theres 3 parts to the mind, the soul, the body's mind, and the personality created to mediate and as a fusion between the two. the body-mind being damaged can cause mechanical issues, and also result in changes to the personality.
but the soul is entirely unaffected by physical problems. ... but physical problems can keep it from being able to show that physically.
if your hand was paralyzed would you no longer be able to think "move hand"? no, you'd still be able to think it, your body just wouldn't be able to respond.
2007-03-20 09:41:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Excellent question and point!!!
That is a misconception perpetrated by Satan, and man-made doctrine. We ARE a living soul, and we have a brain which is where our intellect, emotions and personality are stored. When we die we cease to exist, except in God's memory. We are conscious of nothing, asleep in death. We have the hope of resurrection ....
Acts 24:15: "and I have hope toward God, which hope these [men] themselves also entertain, that there is going to be a resurrection of both the righteous and the unrighteous."
John 5:28 & 29a: "Do not marvel at this, because the hour is coming in which all those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice"
Exekiel 18:20a: "The soul that is sinning—it itself will die."
2007-03-20 09:38:57 · answer #5 · answered by wannaknow 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
We are a tri-part being.
Spirit-soul-body.
It is the spirit of the person that remains the same.
2007-03-20 09:34:50 · answer #6 · answered by repent 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Spirit is the Intellect of the Soul.
2007-03-20 09:33:22 · answer #7 · answered by Royal Racer Hell=Grave © 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
The memories are in the body and that IS the soul. According to your bible.
2007-03-20 09:34:53 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I store these things in my brain but if it is really important I store it on a One Terabyte Disk Drive on my network.
2007-03-20 09:35:22 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋