Are souls physical?

Question

If so, then why can't we measure them?

If not, then how do they interact with bodies?

Broken Glass: How exactly is it that a soul can take over a body if it's not physical? Bodies, being physical, need to obey laws of physics; so how does a non-physical soul have causative influence on physical entities?

Answer 1

If they don't have some kind of real 'physical' existance, no matter how utterly different it may be from the physical universe that we know, I can not see how they could be said to be real or able to interact with our physical world. Simply saying that they are "of a different realm" does not explain what that realm is or how it relates to our universe.

Added comments:
A thought just occured to me about souls burning in hell. It is supposed that they are eternally tormented in a lake of fire and brimstone. Brimstone is sulfur, a physical chemical element that exists in this physical universe. How are souls that have no physical existance whatsoever of any kind tortmented and tortured by a physical element? If this sounds to anyone like an ignorant question, please be so kind as to supply an intelligent answer.

Answer 2

They are only physical in the sense that some see the soul leaving the body at point of death. Ever heard the term " giving up the ghost " ? This is a phenomenon seen many times by hospital workers.
Other than that, the soul does not reside in the physical.
They interact with other souls. Souls are the body's essence....they animate the bodies.

Answer 3

Souls are religion based and religion is thought up, explaining why they are not physical. They interact with some people's bodies because they have been influenced by religion to believe that their souls have a say in what they do.

Answer 4

If you want the biblical answer, here it is:

The Genesis account says that God made "living souls". By other contexts in the Bible and a study of the original words used, we can easily see many references to the soul being mortal and dying. It is therefore very clear that we ARE souls, we DO NOT HAVE souls.

Answer 5

A Soul
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Breath; Breath of Life; Life-Force. The account of the creation of man states that God formed man from the dust of the ground and proceeded to “blow into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man came to be a living soul.” (Genesis 2:7; SOUL.)

Nephesh is a word that is translated literally as “a breather,” that is, a breathing creature, either human or animal. Neshamah´ is used to mean “breathing thing [or creature]” and as such is used as a virtual likeness of nephesh, “soul.”

(Read Deuteronomy 20:16; Josjua 10:39, 40; 11:11; 1Kings 15:29.) The record at Genesis 2:7 uses neshamah in describing God’s causing Adam’s body to have life so that the man became “a living soul.”

The soul is you. As you write your question and read my response, you are a living soul. When you die, you become a dead soul.
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Did not the Christian apostle Paul say that “the first man Adam was made a living soul”? Hence when Adam died at the age of 930 years and returned to the dust because he was dust to begin with, the human soul died. (Genesis 3:19; 5:5)

Answer 6

Sound waves are physical. So yes, soul is physical and it makes the body groove! Yeah baby.

Answer 7

No, they're not physical. They interact with the body by taking it over because that's what the body was made for, to be controlled by the soul.

Answer 8

No,not physical but mind and its thoughts and feelings are set in the context of brain and body chemistry in this life and the opposite in the next. We are meant to be a body-mind-spirit harmony and unity and we will have the perfection of this unity in the resurrection.

Answer 9

I believe if they exist, they are physical because if it is not physical, it cannot exist.

I suspect that souls and thoughts and such intangeables are undiscovered quanta.

Time will tell...

(Thanks, Earthman - well said!)

Answer 10

Souls are just superstitious imagination .