2007-09-01 18:20:25 · 15 answers · asked by Rita 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
i believe we are born with a soul, the inner light from God the creator connects with all our lives. which we all share through a living existence.without the soul we would be roaming the Earth empty, pointless.all life i believe have souls.it is up to us to follow the right ways and keeping the soul intact with good rather then evil.
2007-09-02 00:43:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
I believe that we all have souls. I just wish that those who answer would not include scripture. Our souls make us individuals as opposed to a herd. I will never again associate myself with a denomination or a religion because of the herd mentality. I do not believe in a supreme being or a creator because of fact. I simply do not subscribe to fairy tales. The truth is right and no reasonable person needs to be told the truth. The truth is self evident for those who are seeking it.
2007-09-02 02:23:47 · answer #2 · answered by rollmanjmg 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Is the Soul Immortal?
To answer this question, let us turn to the highest authority on the subject—the inspired Word of the Creator. In the very first book of the Bible, Genesis, we learn the accurate meaning of "soul." Regarding the creation of the first man, Adam, the Bible says: "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." (Genesis 2:7) Clearly, the soul is not what a man has but what he is. The Hebrew word used here for soul is ne'phesh. It occurs some 700 times in the Bible, and it never refers to a separate and ethereal part of a human but always to something tangible and physical.—Job 6:7; Psalm 35:13; 107:9; 119:28.
What happens to the soul at death? Consider what happened to Adam at his death. When he sinned, God told him: "You [will] return to the ground, for out of it you were taken. For dust you are and to dust you will return." (Genesis 3:19) Think of what that means. Before God created him from the dust, Adam did not exist. After his death, Adam returned to the same state of nonexistence.
Simply stated, the Bible teaches that death is the opposite of life. At Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10, we read: "The living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten. All that your hand finds to do, do with your very power, for there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom in Sheol, the place to which you are going."
This means that the dead are unable to do or feel anything. They no longer have any thoughts, nor do they remember anything. The psalmist states: "Do not put your trust in nobles, nor in the son of earthling man, to whom no salvation belongs. His spirit goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish."—Psalm 146:3, 4.
The Bible clearly shows that at death the soul does not move on to another body, but it dies. "The soul that is sinning—it itself will die," the Bible emphatically states. (Ezekiel 18:4, 20; Acts 3:23; Revelation 16:3) Thus, the doctrine of the immortality of the soul—the very foundation of the theory of reincarnation—does not find any support in the Scriptures. Without it, the theory collapses. What, then, explains the suffering we see in the world?
Please read the rest of this great article right here. http://www.watchtower.org/library/w/1997/5/15/article_02.htm
2007-09-02 01:33:40 · answer #3 · answered by Kevin 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I am a soul with a body rather than a body with a soul.
2007-09-02 01:30:38 · answer #4 · answered by Gem 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The soul self isn't in the body, but an essence of it is. It can be said that there souls do have souls, because much of it is like an emanation of being.
Peace!
2007-09-02 01:27:38 · answer #5 · answered by Automaton 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well Rena - you may be possessed, but I don't think I am. Though perhaps some of different persuasion might disagree! 'Tis a grand world, surely, as my Irish grandfather (who at 12 ran away to sea from a seminary where he was cruelly bullied and abused by priests, presumably with souls) used to declare joyfully. But after years on square-riggers he was more self-possessed than most men, and much loved with a soul or not.
2007-09-02 01:34:10 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
For the sake of my conscience (which Watchman Nee believes is a function of my spirit), I can make decisions that go against the grain of my world simply because I perceive that this is the inclination of Jesus. What He believes is right always constitutes the narrow way. The choices He makes will rarely be popular or understood. To follow Him is to guarantee being misunderstood and, at times, hated.
2007-09-02 01:27:35 · answer #7 · answered by Devoted1 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YES
Because your soul is either going to heaven or to hell!
Truth shows us that we all have souls and that when we die our souls go to heaven or hell. According to past actions.
2007-09-02 01:26:45 · answer #8 · answered by David T. 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I've always considered them one in the same - your soul is your spirit is the what makes you you - your mind, your energy, your thoughts- everything except your body.
2007-09-02 01:29:05 · answer #9 · answered by Cheese Fairy - Mummified 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
We have soul and we live in a body that has a spirit.
2007-09-02 01:24:44 · answer #10 · answered by God is love. 6 · 3⤊ 1⤋