What is soul?

Question

What are properties of soul?
Can we live without soul? (MUSLIMS) (God takes away our soul every night when we go to sleep right?)
Is soul our conscious?
If we can't recognize soul with out the body that means the soul needs the body as much as the body needs the soul. So then soul won't be capable of surviving on its own because if conscious is our soul then our actions depend on the soul and the Soul uses the body to do the bidding?
Am I a confused soul right now? lol
AM I making sense?


Do atheists believe in soul?

ok no offense but I am not a Christian (hint: I did not mention Jesus (pbuh) in my question 10 times )

so please answer me by critical thinking and not your soul is happy when Jesus (pbuh) is your soul k? Thank you

Answer 1

Soul is your basic personality, your likes, dislikes, your basic character traits...for example: stubborn, heroic, ambitious, superficial, candid, shy, coy, whimsical, playful ...etc etc...these things don't change over the course of one's lifetime, although we sometimes try to hide or mask them.
When someone has a stroke or gets brain damage some other way, that person's soul is usually still obvious to those that know them. The soul of a person is obvious from birth...little babies have a distinct personality from the start. When a person dies, the soul departs with the spirit, and there remains a lifeless corpse. As far as God taking away souls when sleeping, I don't know what muslims teach, but mine don't go nowhere! God, or something else, may take temporary CONTROL of the soul while sleeping, but that ends when consciousness returns. Also souls never die, they are eternal. I don't know what atheists believe about this. I wouldn't think they'd care much about it.

Answer 2

A Soul is yourself. Taking away soul during sleeping is a hoax, actually Quran didn't talk much about the soul.

Your Soul is the driver that sits behind the wheel to control your brain. Atheists don't believe in it, and therefore can't explain why would a person commit suicide "Action against the brain and body benefit" or "Why can't the brain detect illness i9n the body itself" (provided it controls the whole body).

Einstein observed a very amazing fact: If our brain is in control, and it's the conscious we wont be able to know the time, because the eye will transfer the movement of the clock to our brain at the same time it moves; so it'll seem to our eye as stable, fixed, not moving. like two trains when they pass beside each other; for a while you think that only your train is moving. Einstein by this stated that there must be an upper being in ourselves able to detect that.. And he referred to this directly as "Soul".

According to the Islamic philosophers; Soul is eternal as God. Because it's "A part of his breath". The eternity of the God is Completeness and perfection, while for soul it's weakness as it is dependent on her creator. souls never die, and after death, they raise up to God as a preparation to be returned to the body for punishment or Joy.

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Atheists believe that a cell became a human, and woke up suddenly to find a worm making silk, a sun warming, a cow generating milk, fresh air and water, and all that without any Supreme intelligence; Made by nature that can not make a fence by itself. To believe in God is to believe in Soul as well, as it's a part of the theory of creation.

Answer 3

One of the things that people have been unaware of is that the soul is actually made up of more than one spirit. You are one of the ones on the inside.
The human body has to have a soul, that's like an engine to a car.
The soul can survive without the human body, but the human body can't survive without the soul. Actually everyones soul has existed long before the human body.
I'll explain some about three 666's. There's actually four sixes. But humans have been given only three sixes, that's why no man is perfect. You would have to have the forth sixth restored to you to become perfect.
Those sixes are labeled, according to family. (Father, mother, son, daughter, brother, sister).
The four are labeled (Father. mother, son, daughter).
Each of those four has six.
666 is the mark of the forehead. 666 can be found in the palm of the hand.
The mark of your forehead is your mind.
You hold your thought. What you hold is in the palm of your hand.
There's more than one spirit inside you, and those spirits inside you dictates how and what you think. Also, because those spirits in you are an incomplete number, their processing of information is not always accurate.
In the sixth day God create men in his image. That's actually talking about the souls. God created the souls with spirits.
That's why he said lets go down to create men. God and the spirits when down to create the souls. The arrangements of spirits are what make up each soul. When you think, those spirits are communicating to you.

Answer 4

Most atheists do not believe in a soul. There is no evidence that a separate "soul" exists outside the brain. A good book on this topic is "Dying to Live," by Susan Blackmore, which looks into the scientific evidence for near death experiences and out of body experiences. If those were true, it would suggest the soul survives after death. However, the evidence shows there are more likely natural, brain-based explanations for those events.

Also see the link below for an interesting overview.

Answer 5

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; Judges 9:17; 1 Samuel 19:11); 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. 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. And when he sinned, the sentence was pronounced: “For dust you are and to dust you will return.” (Genesis 3:19) When Adam and Eve died, they simply became what the Bible often refers to as ‘dead souls’ or ‘deceased souls.’

Answer 6

Our thoughts and emotions are only visible through the animation of our bodies. You can’t see them but they are REAL. In our present state of being this “thought/emotion soul” is perfectly suited for the human body. However when the human body can no longer sustain this soul this soul returns to the originator, “God”. God, issues this soul a new body to continue its existence.

34 Become sober-minded as you ought, and stop sinning; for some have no knowledge of God I speak this to your shame.
35But someone will say, "How are the dead raised? And with what kind of body do they come?"
36 You fool! That which you sow does not come to life unless it dies;
37and that which you sow, you do not sow the body which is to be, but a bare grain, perhaps of wheat or of something else.
38But God gives it a body just as He wished, and to each of the seeds a body of its own.
39All flesh is not the same flesh, but there is one flesh of men, and another flesh of beasts, and another flesh of birds, and another of fish.
40There are also heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one, and the glory of the earthly is another.
41There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; for star differs from star in glory.
42 So also is the resurrection of the dead It is sown a perishable body, it is raised an imperishable body;
43it is sown in dishonor, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power;
44it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body. If there is a natural body, there is also a spiritual body.
45So also it is written, "The first MAN, Adam, BECAME A LIVING SOUL " The last Adam(Christ) became a life-giving spirit.
46However, the spiritual is not first, but the natural; then the spiritual.
47The first man is from the earth, earthy; the second man is from heaven.
48As is the earthy, so also are those who are earthy; and as is the heavenly, so also are those who are heavenly. . _ 1 Corinthians 15 (New American Standard Bible)

Answer 7

Oh my soul rejoice.....Your soul is; your Thoughts, your Will, your emotions. You have a physical body that your soul controls and experiences and when you accept Jesus God brings your dormant Spirit to life in you, the Hoy Spirit comes and lives in you. If you don't believe in and accept God then your soul will go to hell when you die

Answer 8

well this may be of some help...taken directly from one of my fav. books....just because of the title, dont write it off....its very meaningful
"The dead flesh, unconnected to any spirit, was merely matter now -no more interesting than a table leg or a wax candle, and bearing no more imprint of its owners soul or personality. Astonishing, the transition from ones body to oneself. The spirit is a puppeteer to make ones flesh limbs dance: but cut the spirits strings, and nothing remains but meat and paint, cloth and bone."

Answer 9

our spirit is that spark that comes from god [giving us life ; our light body
it is clothed in the soul our astral [body [the id of ;;self] that returns to the dreaming when we sleep
the soul cant go past the astral plane

our soul is in our body [much like the skins of an onion]
the souls a record of our good /bad [it gets stains when we sin [thus satan can make claim upon our sins [deeds] but not touch our spirit ,that is released [only] when we redeem our sins

Answer 10

everyone has a soul and spirit.they are different.your soul is who you are your conscious,mind,emotions etc... spirit is dead in you until you except jesus christ.when your a christian(true one)you have your spirit and the holy spirit kinda together.when you sin against god your spirit says no you should not be doing this or thinking that.if your not a christian than it really can't be explained.because a no-christian believes it's foolish.