What is the Soul of man?

Question

Does man have a soul within and if so what happens to it at death?

Can a soul die? Does it have immortality? or do we all simply die at death and our life ceases to exist?

Answer 1

You ARE a living soul.
Dust you are and to dust you SHALL return.

Answer 2

I am not religious yet I still beleive in spirituality.

I believe the soul is the lasting impression of your existance on this planet. The things you have touched or tasted, and the air you have breathed. Your actions are consequences to yourself, the people around you, and the people that aren't.

After you die, does your existance become cursed or is it blessed along with the things you've touch or the people you've saved?


I believe that when you die you are given a second chance to make what you've done wrong, right. The challenge is that you don't remember what you've done wrong and have come back as a new person, who has to grow and learn and try its best at becoming perfect.

In a nutshell, the soul is not a soul at all, but instead is the memory of you and your past. Your actions, NOT God, creates what happens to you after death.

Answer 3

The soul is not what a man has but what he is!

The human soul ceases to exist at death
Ezekiel 18:4
Ecclesiates 9:10
Psalms 6:5; 146:4;
John 11:11-14

The Bible tells us: "The wages sin pays is death." "The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all." "The soul that is sinning—it itself will die." (Romans 6:23; Ecclesiastes 9:5; Ezekiel 18:4, 20) Then how can they live again to share in the earthly blessings? Only through the ransom sacrifice of Christ Jesus, for he said: "I am the resurrection and the life. He that exercises faith in me, even though he dies, will come to life." "All those in the memorial tombs will hear his voice and come out."—John 5:28, 29; 11:25; Matthew 20:28.

Answer 4

"Soul" can have different meanings, depending on who you ask.

If you take soul to mean the same thing as spirit, then man has a soul within him. Our soul is what animates us, gives us life. When we die, our soul leaves our body (or vice versa).

A soul cannot die, it is immortal. The only death that it can go through is spiritual death, which is a separation from the presence of God. Our soul will continue living forever.

Although our body dies and breaks down, at the resurrection our physical body will be reunited with our spirit and we will live forever as a physical/spiritual being.

Answer 5

First of all, you do not have and immortal soul, if you did, then why had no one gone to Heaven before Jesus came to the Earth, 4000 years had came & gone since Adam & Eve, millions of people had died, what did Jesus say to a man of the Pharisees, Nic·o·de'mus was his name, a ruler of the Jews.

John 3:13
“Moreover, no man has ascended into heaven but he that descended from heaven, the Son of man.”

What is a Soul?
Right in the very first book of the Bible, Genesis, we are told that the soul is not something you have, it is something you are. We read of the creation of Adam, the first human being: “The man came to be a living soul.” (Genesis 2:7) The Hebrew word used here for soul, ne'phesh, occurs well over 700 times in the Hebrew Scriptures, never once conveying the idea of a separate, ethereal, spiritual part of man. On the contrary, the soul is tangible, concrete, physical.

Look up the following cited texts in your own copy of the Bible, for the Hebrew word ne'phesh is found in each of them. They clearly show that the soul can face risk, danger, and even be kidnapped (Deuteronomy 24:7) touch things (Job 6:7); be locked up in irons (Psalm 105:18); crave to eat, be afflicted by fasting, and faint from hunger and thirst; and suffer from a wasting disease or even insomnia as a result of grief. (Deuteronomy 12:20; Psalm 35:13; 69:10;) In other words, because your soul is you, your very self, your soul can experience anything you can experience.

Does that mean, then, that the soul can actually die? Yes. Far from being immortal, human souls are spoken of in the Hebrew Scriptures as being “cut off,” or executed, for wrongdoing, being struck fatally, murdered, destroyed, and torn to pieces. (Exodus 31:14; Psalm 7:2) “The soul that is sinning, it itself will die,” says Ezekiel 18:4. Clearly, death is the common end of human souls, since all of us sin. The first man, Adam, was told that the penalty for sin was death, not transfer to the spirit realm and immortality. (Genesis 2:17) And when he sinned, the sentence was pronounced: “For dust you are and to dust you will return.” When Adam and Eve died, they simply became what the Bible often refers to as ‘dead souls’ or ‘deceased souls.’

Answer 6

The soul of a (wo)man trancends the mortal coil that we are all so emphatuated with in this day and age. Dont get me wrong, i am not a crazy religious kinda guy, but i have my beliefs and back them up with certain facts.

Fact: The signals from our brain are carried by a small electrical current that runs throughout our spine, nerves and body.
Another fact: Law of Conservation of Energy states energy cannot be created nor destroyed....but changes form.
Where am I going with this: When we die, the electrical energy changes form....it doesnt just "cease to exist".

A person's soul is the wall of their mind that no one can trespass upon.

Answer 7

It stays to be tested that souls exist, regardless of a few general religions' assertions regarding such. But from the point of view of Christianity the reply to the query is "incomparable significance", which renders bizarre the deficient efforts and specially inactiveness of many believers in making an attempt to converse with and persuade others. But then, on sober considering, I do not feel I have a soul. My e mail is constantly open for any individual who thinks they've a well case why I am unsuitable.

Answer 8

The soul (my opinion) is the combination of several components and only exists as long as all the components remain together. At death, life departs from the body and the soul ceases to exist.

Answer 9

Soul is the breath of life. You are your soul and your physical body is just the vehicle that you chose to wear to go about your purpose in life. Your body dies and decay and your soul goes back to the giver or to the source. Since the soul inhabited the body for quite a time, it is natural to have an attachment to physical life as if the soul thinks he is still alive bodily and realization sometimes takes a long time before it knows that his body is already dead.
The soul that dies is not dead in the physical sense, it only means a detachment to the source that can be regained back
when he embodies again and fulfill the laws of God on his next earthly life. That is for a reincarnationist view like me.

Answer 10

"Does man have a soul within and if so what happens to it at death?"

It goes to heaven or hell.

"Can a soul die?"

No

"Does it have immortality?"

Yes

"or do we all simply die at death and our life ceases to exist?"

No

In Christ
Fr. Joseph

Answer 11

Flesh of man is created from clay and Soul from God. When we die our flesh decays to earth but soul depart unto God. If he was righteous the soul shall get bliss. If he was wrong doer, soul gets punishment. On the day of resurrection. The soul is again brought back to the flesh which God makes second time. There the final Judgement goes. Righteou enters the eternal paradise and wicked goes to Hell forever.