What is a soul?

Question

All right, I'm doing a school project on the soul in modern time, and I would appreciate any opinions on the matter. I don't need a bible definition; for this to work, I need to know what YOU think a soul is. Thank you for your time.

Answer 1

read Genesis chapter 2 verse 7. we are the soul.

Answer 2

I always thought a soul was the spirit part of the body. Is there a difference between a spirit and a soul?The only way I know to learn the difference is to look up examples of the word in the bible and see how the word is used.
Genesis 2:7
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Genesis 19:20
Behold now, this city is near to flee unto, and it is a little one: Oh, let me escape thither, (is it not a little one?) and my soul shall live.
James 2:26 (King James Version)
26For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

1 Corinthians 15:45
And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.
According to this scripture, there must be a difference between a spirit and a soul.

Here is another unusual scripture about spirit:
Job 34:13-15 (King James Version)
13Who hath given him a charge over the earth? or who hath disposed the whole world?

14If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;

15All flesh shall perish together, and man shall turn again unto dust.

Ecclesiastes 9:5 (King James Version)
5For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
Ecclesiastes 12:7 (King James Version)
7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

Hope this helps.

Answer 3

A soul is the heart of the body like the mind is the heart of the brain.

A soul is the small piece of the great universal Spirit that has been reserved for me in this lifetime... it is how I am connected to "all that is".

A soul is that "force" that is with you. It is the container of the "will" to live, that is, it is what leaves when an animal (human or otherwise) dies.

Answer 4

I like to think we are all souls, the bible indicates that animals are souls too. I like to use the analogy of a computer. It seems to be alive and intelligent but if you pull the plug the computer dies. Like us we are alive and our spirit would be liken to electricity or our life force. We are like great laptops with full batteries but at the end of 80 years our life force end and we die. All it takes is morlife force and we would be alive again.

Answer 5

The soul
feels,
hungers,
thinks,
plans,
envys,
reasons,
contemplates,
desires,
has joy,
memory,
resentment,
anquish,
peace ....
is at war,
can be weary,
loyal, steadfast,
is living and can die > Eze 18:4
Sounds like YOU? Well, it is! ~
Hope your teacher is a Bible reader and
your project gets an A+
Anyone who disagrees is a "poor soul"

Answer 6

Soul Generally, the manifesting vehicle or garment in which an ego clothes itself. First in serial order is the monad, on whatever plane and of whatever class; its vehicle or carrier is its efflux, the ego; which in its turn clothes itself in its own vital garment which is soul. Cosmically, therefore, soul is the vehicle or upadhi of spirit. As the monad creates for its manifestation successive vehicles, soul in its widest sense includes all these, even the physical body; but it is usually used in an aggregative sense to designate the intermediate nature, excluding the monad on the one hand and the physical body on the other. Such division produces the triad of spirit, soul, body, where soul is the vehicle of spirit, and body is the vehicle of soul and spirit. The soul is evolved by experiences on different planes. In itself it is merely a vehicle; but, informed by the monad, through the latter's ego, it is a living conscious entity. The broad meaning is particularized with qualifying adjectives such as animal soul, human soul, etc. Saying that every living thing -- animal, vegetable, or mineral -- has a soul, refers to the intermediate nature of the being, of which its physical body is the vehicle. Souls, like bodies, are aggregates of innumerable subordinate lives or life-atoms of various orders. Equivalent to the Greek psyche and the Hebrew nephesh.

Answer 7

Hebrew Nephesh and it refers to life force. What I think about the soul is that it is that emotional and instinctive side of us.

Answer 8

I define a soul not as a transferable entity, as in the Christian context, but as consciousness and awareness.

Answer 9

Your inner mind.