True or false: There is no such thing as a soul, it's just another religious myth.?

Question

There is no scientific evidence, proof, or anything of a soul.
No one has ever seen it.
No one has ever found it.
It's all imagination.
The concept of a soul is a powerful tool used by religion to recruit members.

Answer 1

Depends on your definition of "Soul."

For example, there are ways to define "god" so that even many atheists would say, yes, that exists. If one were to define God ( as some philosphers have) as whatever rules exist in the universe that impact our lives in a meaningful way but is beyond our capability to understand, may atheists would buy in. It's when you add the creator of the universe, heaven and hell, angels and devil stuff that it diverges from any connection to reality.

Answer 2

If you have no soul, then tell me where your emotions come from? There may be no scientific evidence of a soul, but what are the 3 main components of men or women? Flesh and bone, the mind( or soul), and the spirit. The flesh is what you can touch, feel, and see. The soul is the emotion of man, it's what makes you want to dance to music, like or dislike certain tastes or styles, what makes you happy, and then the spirit of a man, which connects you to God or a higher being! We all know that within ourselves we have all three components, so to doubt there is a soul, to me is ridiculous. Search within yourself and ask this question again!!! Do we need scientific proof there is a soul? I say no we don't.

Answer 3

Scientific proof requires repeatable results that can be duplicated in future experiments. The nature of the spiritual is mercurial, prone to change according to the so many variables that this isn't possible. I believe in the spiritual, but I'm logical about it. The 'soul' is just the spiritual essence of our physical bodies. All matter is just energy and the 'spiritual' is just another kind of energy that reside in all matter. All matter. Dust, rocks, dung, crack hos, Buddhist monks, fish, and rubber tires all have a 'spiritual aspect' to it's being. We are sentient beings, so we can play with it more than birds or concrete or neo-cons. Pretty much every single culture on earth has an idea about the 'spiritual', so it's not just another extremist Middle Eastern idea like One True Faith. That's what I believe.

Answer 4

One must define their terms.
Christendom's definition is that of an invisible, wispy thing that keeps on going after the body dies.
Then again, christendom has shown herself the absolute worst representative of Christianity one could ever imagine.
They lie.
The Bible's definition of the term is simply .....you.
Your body, your mind, everything that goes to make YOU.
That's why, decades back, when entering a town, there would be a sign:
"Welcome to __________________ 10,000 souls."
Meaning the population.

Answer 5

In Judeo-Christianity, the word soul is the english equivalent of the Hebrew word Nephesh.

Nephesh means a breathing creature.

Unless you are dead, you are a nephesh. Animals are nephesh, people are nephesh. Simply breathing creatures.

Answer 6

False

Answer 7

No Earth animal has a concept of what happens after death. To keep a stranglehold on people, religion was invented to scare the bejeebus outta you.

Answer 8

According to the Bible, “soul” is translated from the Hebrew ne′phesh and the Greek psy·khe′. Bible usage shows the soul to be a person or an animal or the life that a person or an animal enjoys. Yet, to many persons, however, “soul” means the immaterial or spirit part of a human being that survives the death of the physical body. Others understand it to be the principle of life. But these latter views are not Bible teachings.

To help us to understand what the soul is the Bible say that:

At Genesis. 2:7: “Jehovah God proceeded to form the man out of dust from the ground and to blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul.” (Notice that this does not say that man was given a soul but that he became a soul, a living person.) (The part of the Hebrew word here rendered “soul” is ne′phesh. KJ, AS, and Dy agree with that rendering. RS, JB, NAB read “being.” NE says “creature.” Kx reads “person.”)

Also, at 1 Cor. 15:45: “It is even so written: ‘The first man Adam became a living soul.’ The last Adam became a life-giving spirit.” (So the Christian Greek Scriptures agree with the Hebrew Scriptures as to what the soul is.) (The Greek word here translated “soul” is the accusative case of psy·khe′. KJ, AS, Dy, JB, NAB, and Kx also read “soul.” RS, NE, and TEV say “being.”)

Also of consideration the Bible say that animals are souls:

Gen. 1:20, 21, 24, 25: “God went on to say: ‘Let the waters swarm forth a swarm of living souls* . . . ’ And God proceeded to create the great sea monsters and every living soul that moves about, which the waters swarmed forth according to their kinds, and every winged flying creature according to its kind. . . . And God went on to say: ‘Let the earth put forth living souls according to their kinds . . . ’ And God proceeded to make the wild beast of the earth according to its kind and the domestic animal according to its kind and every moving animal of the ground according to its kind.” (*In Hebrew the word here is ne′phesh. Ro reads “soul.” Some translations use the rendering “creature[s].”)

Lev. 24:17, 18: “In case a man strikes any soul [Hebrew, ne′phesh] of mankind fatally, he should be put to death without fail. And the fatal striker of the soul [Hebrew, ne′phesh] of a domestic animal should make compensation for it, soul for soul.” (Notice that the same Hebrew word for soul is applied to both mankind and animals.)

Do other scholars who are not Christians acknowledge that this is what the Bible says the soul is?

“There is no dichotomy [division] of body and soul in the O[ld] T[estament]. The Israelite saw things concretely, in their totality, and thus he considered men as persons and not as composites. The term nepeš [ne′phesh], though translated by our word soul, never means soul as distinct from the body or the individual person. . . . The term [psy·khe′] is the N[ew] T[estament] word corresponding with nepeš. It can mean the principle of life, life itself, or the living being.”—New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967), Vol. XIII, pp. 449, 450.

“The Hebrew term for ‘soul’ (nefesh, that which breathes) was used by Moses . . . , signifying an ‘animated being’ and applicable equally to nonhuman beings. . . . New Testament usage of psychē (‘soul’) was comparable to nefesh.”—The New Encyclopædia Britannica (1976), Macropædia, Vol. 15, p. 152.

“The belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body is a matter of philosophical or theological speculation rather than of simple faith, and is accordingly nowhere expressly taught in Holy Scripture.”—The Jewish Encyclopedia (1910), Vol. VI, p. 564.

So What is the origin of and the belief in an immaterial, immortal soul?

“The Christian concept of a spiritual soul created by God and infused into the body at conception to make man a living whole is the fruit of a long development in Christian philosophy. Only with Origen [died c. 254 C.E.] in the East and St. Augustine [died 430 C.E.] in the West was the soul established as a spiritual substance and a philosophical concept formed of its nature. . . . His [Augustine’s] doctrine . . . owed much (including some shortcomings) to Neoplatonism.”—New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967), Vol. XIII, pp. 452, 454.

“The concept of immortality is a product of Greek thinking, whereas the hope of a resurrection belongs to Jewish thought. . . . Following Alexander’s conquests Judaism gradually absorbed Greek concepts.”—Dictionnaire Encyclopédique de la Bible (Valence, France; 1935), edited by Alexandre Westphal, Vol. 2, p. 557.

“Immortality of the soul is a Greek notion formed in ancient mystery cults and elaborated by the philosopher Plato.”—Presbyterian Life, May 1, 1970, p. 35.

“Do we believe that there is such a thing as death? . . . Is it not the separation of soul and body? And to be dead is the completion of this; when the soul exists in herself, and is released from the body and the body is released from the soul, what is this but death? . . . And does the soul admit of death? No. Then the soul is immortal? Yes.”—Plato’s “Phaedo,” Secs. 64, 105, as published in Great Books of the Western World (1952), edited by R. M. Hutchins, Vol. 7, pp. 223, 245, 246.

“The problem of immortality, we have seen, engaged the serious attention of the Babylonian theologians. . . . Neither the people nor the leaders of religious thought ever faced the possibility of the total annihilation of what once was called into existence. Death was a passage to another kind of life.”—The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria (Boston, 1898), M. Jastrow, Jr., p. 556.

Answer 9

The soul,biblically defined is that which is Mind,Will and Emotions....You may be thinking of the Spirit.

Answer 10

So, when the Bible referes to "soul" 458 times in 432 verses, that's all lies?
I don't hardly think so.

Neither have you seen "love."
Do you deny the existence of "love?"
(if so, please don't tell your spouce).
No one has ever seen it.
No one has ever found it.
Is "love" all imagination?
Is the concept of "love" a powerful tool used by the greeting card industry to generate income?