Is it from birth? Conception? When do you have your "soul"??
2007-06-18 03:52:40 · 44 answers · asked by JoJi 4 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
When a sperm fertilizes an egg, the egg begins multiplying, and may go on doing so for four or five days before anything "happens" to make the material differentiate into twins. So unless you believe that twins share the same soul, it can't possibly happen until after that, if it happens at all! Jewish scripture implies it happens at birth (so logically abortion does not hurt "a soul"), Christian scripture implies it happens at conception (so twins must only have a single soul between them!), and common sense should tell you that the "soul" is a mental construct for which there is no empirical evidence. Mankind made the idea of a "soul" up to make himself feel better about killing other people and about killing animals, even friendly ones, for food.
2007-06-18 04:04:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Rather than the soul entering the body, I think the body "houses" the soul. I believe we exist before conception and will exist after death. Therefore, I think that the body houses the soul from conception.
2007-06-18 04:55:03 · answer #2 · answered by morning star 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe that it grows with the body at conception. Or it is an "OLD SOUL" which enters the body at conception.
2007-06-18 03:57:15 · answer #3 · answered by lunacrab 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What is soul? More importantly, why can people say such utter nonsense like "the soul grows a body" without defining soul?
Oh, and I agree with xammor's definition. Soul is a mental construct, nothing more. And armed with such a definition you could actually test infants to see when they develop an awareness of mortality and self to find when they develop a 'soul'.
2007-06-18 04:00:54 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
In accrodance with traditional Odinic teaching, the body is the expression of the soul. They are one. However, the soul is not awakened to itself before the first moon after birth.
2007-06-18 04:01:27 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Conception
2007-06-18 03:56:32 · answer #6 · answered by William A 1 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I believe the body enters the soul, when the body starts to form. The body leaves the soul, when it starts to decay. The soul isn't in us, we are in soul, of soul, we are soul.
You probably won't find this in the Bible, unless the Bible is in you...
2007-06-18 04:08:16 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I felt my daughter's soul enter her body and it was just seconds before her birth. It was one of the most spiritual
moments of my life.
2007-06-18 04:01:42 · answer #8 · answered by Jameskan Video 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I believe you have a soul from conception..that is when you begin to exist so it makes sense thats when you would have a soul.
God bless
2007-06-18 06:55:41 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
As in self-consciousness? - I would say that would be around 3 months into pregnancy. That's when the child's brain "comes to life". Or - in other words - when the child's organs start to develop, including the brain, and when the brain starts to send out pulses as a sign that it has started to work... and when the child is considered to be "alive" and when it would actually be considered murder to have it removed then.
As for a real soul, arguably I believe it's at child birth. A soul added to the consciousness it already has.
2007-06-18 04:01:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋