Question to all R&S participants? Define soul? Define spirit? Does everybody have a soul?

Question

Does everybody have a spirit? What is the meaning of the word soul? What is the meaning of the word spirit? What are the differences between the two? What are the similarities between the two? Does everybody have a spirit? Does everybody have a soul? Respectful answers please.

Answer 1

Yeah, everyone has spirit. Matter is just another kind of energy. Our being is our soul, body included. Soul is the kind of spirit a sentient being has. Spirit is the kind of spirit animals and rocks and stuff has. Sentient means thinking, like we're supposed to be. A soul is just a more evolved spirit. Everyone has a soul, except for zombies. Well, they still have a body, so they would have only a partial soul that might grow back. If it died, so would they.

Answer 2

First we must realize that a human being is a 3-part organism. (Trinity, sound like a familiar theme?)

The first part is the body. This is the physical, the flesh. This is built from worldly materials (atoms, molecules, elements).

The second part is the spirit. This is what animates the body and lets it move around, breathe, and reproduce. The spirit comes from God, such as when God Breathed Life into Adam.

The third part is the soul. This is what makes you a unique, thinking, reasoning person. One who can make choices from an informed perspective, and who is aware of self, yet is also aware of others.

Birth is the joining of the three. Death is the splitting up of the three.

At death, the body returns to the earth. (Dust to Dust)

The spirit returns to God.

The soul, however, remains intact, and must answer for the life it led while inhabiting the body. Did it make wise choices of foolish ones? Did it choose God or something else? This is the part that must face judgement, and if found unworthy, will be destroyed in the lake of fire at the end of existance as we know it.

Answer 3

The truth is that probably the most solutions are natural bet paintings and assumption. Humans are triune beings, frame, spirit and soul. We have an understanding of the frame. The 5 senses See, Taste, Smell, Hearing, and Touch. There are 5 senses of the spirit. Conscience, Memory, Love, Reason, and Imagination. The 5 senses of the spirit increase the 5 senses of the frame for us to have an understanding of and revel in the 3 dimensional international we are living in. We nonetheless do not have an understanding of what fabric or constitution the spirit is fabricated from. Although my ideas are that there's a few variety of kind to the spirit. But to my talents there may be ne means at this factor to turn out this line of suggestion. The soul is even extra misunderstood. But my ideas are that there's just one feel there and it is what I might name "unfastened will." The using drive directing the opposite ten senses. The Bible in Genesis says ( and this isn't an immediate quote ) GOD created us in HIS photograph (spirit) then took the dirt of the earth and made our frame then breathed the breath of existence into this and guy grew to become a dwelling soul. Although faith takes the frame, spirit and soul to a further position and is deceptive within the reality they use their ideals because the spine of expertise. Death is the separation of the frame and spirit. The senses of the spirit can't function with the frame by myself. My factor is get rid of the spirit and there's no Conscience, Memory, Love, Reason, or Imagination. The 5 senses of the frame are simplest operable with the relationship of the frame and spirit. So in demise not one of the senses are operable. So in my comparison the soul is probably the most internal facet of guy. The manage tower (as a way to talk) of the entire senses of guy.

Answer 4

Buddhism teaches that when a person dies they are reborn and that this process of death and rebirth will continue until Nirvana is attained

Most religions believe that the core of the person, the real person, is the soul, a non-material and eternal entity that survives in the afterlife. Buddhism on the other hand says that the person is made up of thoughts, feelings and perceptions interacting with the body in a dynamic and constantly changing way. At death this stream of mental energy is re-established in a new body.

Thus Buddhism explain the continuity of the individual without recourse to the belief in an "eternal soul", an idea which contradicts the universal truth of impermanence.

the circumstances into which one is reborn is conditioned by the sum total of the kamma created in the previous life.

http://www.buddhanet.net/

Answer 5

This is the Loki's Wager Fallacy: A concept cannot be defined ergo cannot be discussed.

The soul being a prime example. The soul is usually defined by theologians as a self-aware ETHEREAL substance unique to a living being

The ethereal is realm is defined of lacking in matter or indeed any physical substance. Thus how can we empirically demonstrate it's existence when by our own definition it does not? There is no empirical evidence to suggest that any part of us survives death, much as we can observe the gruesome effect it has on the brain, the physical substance which generates all the properties a soul is deemed to have.

Something cannot be defined by it's negative if it lacks positive attributes like the soul, especially if it is supposedly outside our comprehension of existence by which definition it would simply be no more than a made up concept.

Answer 6

Christian beliefs
Christians believe that when people die their souls will be judged by God, who sees all the wrong and right that they have done during their lives. If they have repented of their sins and accepted Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, they will inherit eternal life in Heaven and enjoy eternal fellowship with God. Most Christians believe that if they have not repented of their sins and not accepted Jesus Christ, they will go to Hell, and suffer eternal torment and separation from God. This is the teaching of most evangelical, Catholic and Eastern Orthodox churches, which constitute the majority of Christianity

Atheist belief
However, most atheists and humanists do not accept the existence of a soul.[10] From the perspective of materialism, for the soul to exist it would have to manifest as a form of energy mediated by a force. Only four forces are proven to exist (strong interaction, weak interaction, electromagnetism and gravitation). The only force which operates usefully, in this context, at the human-scale is electromagnetism. This force is fully understood and described by Quantum Electrodynamics and Special Relativity. Any additional force acting upon humans or emanating from the mind would have long ago been detected in laboratories as an aberration of the predictable behaviour of electromagnetism - and this has never been found[citation needed] .

In Christian theology, the Spirit is also used to describe God, or aspects thereof as in Holy Spirit, referring to a Triune God (Trinity): "The result of God reaching to man by the Father as the source, the Son as the course ("the Way"), and through the Spirit as the transmission."
Also in theological terms, the individual human "spirit" (singular lowercase) is a deeply situated aspect of the soul subject to "spiritual" growth and change; the very seat of emotion and desire, and the transmitting organ by which human beings can contact God. It is a central concept of Pneumatology

Atheists view

An incorporeal but ubiquitous, non-quantifiable, substance or energy present individually in all living things. Unlike the concept of human souls, which is believed to be eternal and preexisting, a spirit develops and grows as an integral aspect of the living being. This concept of the individual spirit is common among traditional peoples. It is therefore important to note the distinction between this concept of spirit and that of the pre-existing or eternal soul because belief in souls is specific and far less common, particularly in traditional societies.

Everyone has something in them. Differences are part of spirituality & soul

Answer 7

Read Genesis 2:7, Genesis 9:4 Leviticus 17:14 Joshua11;11; Job 12:10; Acts 2:17 John 4:24, Ephesians 4:30 Maybe then you can figure it out.

Answer 8

Everyone has a soul I think or is meant to (there will always be anomalies) and the capacity to be spiritual...this does not mean you have to believe in a higher power.

There are, as I said, always anomalies. There are certain people who I question have or had souls...like Hitler. There are those who are so evil and cold that when you look at their eyes all you see is a wall of blackness. They care for no one and nothing means anything to them. We define them as sociopaths or megalomaniacs, etc.

I do not know where the soul is, I do not know where the capacity to be spiritual comes from. I think all of it is a part of our brains, perhaps undiscovered and in some cases never reached. I do not think you HAVE to be spiritual to have a soul. I think using the capacity to be spiritual is a choice we make even though we all have the capacity.

Okay...that's about the best I can do.

The Skeptical Christian
Grace and Peace
Peg

Answer 9

soul -- the ethereal part of a human being housing the mind, will and emotions. a soul is physically immortal and either ends up in Hell or Heaven, depending on whether that person has condemned themself or is saved. also what most people refer to as the "consciousness"

spirit -- another ethereal part of a being. a human spirit allows the soul to communicate with other spirit beings, such as God, angels, demons or the devil. a spirit is not indipendant, as it needs to be controlled by a mind. angels and demons are spirit beings, as they possess a spirit and some sort of mind, but limited will and emotions.

it's like a soul is ozone and a spirit is O2. essentially, they are similar, but technically different compounds.

yes, every human being has a soul and a spirit, as that's what the latin definition of a human is: humus, basically a spirit in a flesh body.

PS: the soul and spirit separate when you die. the spirit returns to its Maker (as it only exists as the comm-link between physical and non-physical), and the soul goes to heaven or Hell. Souls apparently can communicate with other souls directly in non-physical realms, but exceptions are rare.

Answer 10

The two are the same and there is no soul or spirit apart from the body. That is why the bible compares death to sleep.