what is the definition of the souls and was is the purpose of the soul, also what attributes does it have?
2007-10-29 00:50:05 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The Bible teaches that our natural healthy state before God is as tripartite beings: ie. spirit and soul and body. That means that we were made in the image of God.
The spirit and the soul are contained within the body, but when a person sins, their spirit dies. Thereafter, only the Spirit of God can regenerate man's spirit and this happens when the person turns his life over to Christ.
Consequently, most people live in the body and the soul and are not very interested in spiritual things - they are 'dead' to them.
Like the body, the soul also has three sections contained in it:
there is the mind (located in the physical brain);
the will (whereby we make decisions) and
the emotions (the ability to love, show affection or hate).
Some say that the seat of the emotions and/or will is in the heart - not the literal heart, but in the deepest part of man, his centre.
Just as the purpose of the body is to serve the soul of man, so the purpose of the soul is to serve the spirit (the spirit of man being there to relate to God), for the highest action of man is to love and serve God and body, soul and spirit are meant to work together to achieve this.
The soul is like the pivot upon which an action is suspended - like a see-saw. Everything is decided from the soul and decision-making is its highest function.
Some people live too much in their emotions and make all their decisions following their own personal tastes and likes and dislikes. They tend to be also unstable and self-centred, as they relate everything to their own feelings and live an emotionally up and down life.
Others live too much in their minds and everything is cerebral and capable of being solved by the mind. They tend to be over-serious people who, though the great thinkers, inventors and scientists of our race, tend to inhabit 'lofty towers', can get conceited and may have a problem getting along with people on a personal level.
As I said, the highest function of the soul resides in the part called the will. This is where man makes his choices - where he 'weighs things up', influenced to a greater or lesser degree by his emotional, intellectual and bodily drives or by his purer side - his drive to know the truth, regardless of what it may personally cost him.
Scripture says that God made man (Hebr. adam) out of the dust of the earth and, when he breathed his spirit into him, he became a 'living soul'.
2007-10-29 01:51:43 · answer #1 · answered by homechrch 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An imaginary fabrication designed to lull idiots into thinking they'll have some form of consciousness after death.
It's stupid, childish and an outright like but they swallow it hook, line and sinker.
Why? Because they can't come to terms with the FACT that when they die, that's the end of it. For everyone.
Which is a shame really because then they might actually live for today instead of for some childish story of a made up candy-land.
2007-10-29 08:03:48 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
The soul is an entity that lives within a body in order to experience and learn through living various life times. One cannot quantify the soul however it is an integral part of being. The soul is linked to the body however cannot leave it until the body expires whereupon it departs for The Afterlife before being reborn anew.
2007-10-29 07:55:58 · answer #3 · answered by A-chan 4 · 0⤊ 4⤋
The soul is not a supernatural construct. I see the soul as one's personality, including deeper levels that are typically beyond conscious awareness. The soul is embodied within us as software, running on the hardware of our brains and bodies.
2007-10-29 07:55:19 · answer #4 · answered by TigerLily 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
A soul is like the light that results when a light bulb is connected to a power source. The spirit, or breath of life, is the electric current.
Electricity will produce light only while it is flowing through the bulb. When the filament in the bulb breaks, the electrical circuit is broken, and the light goes out.
Just as the light cannot exist unless there is both electricity and a bulb, so there must be both the breath of life and a functional body in order for there to be a living soul.
2007-10-29 07:54:40 · answer #5 · answered by Celtickarma 4 · 0⤊ 5⤋
I'm not sure. I always wonder if we found it would we even know? What does a soul look like anyhow? Have we found it all ready and renamed it something scientific? How would we know if we did?
LOL I always have more questions then answers.
2007-10-29 07:53:50 · answer #6 · answered by ~Heathen Princess~ 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Those of us who have had out-of-body experiences (actually more common than you might think - up to 15% in some surveys) can tell you what the soul is.
An extremely heightened sense of awareness or consciousness; a sense of being separately and distinctly you but also one with your surroundings - hard to explain, but impossible to ignore.
Repent, before it's too late.
2007-10-29 07:58:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋
people portray it as a ghostly image of your body trapped within your body, I don't think such a thing exists, but it's kind of an interesting concept...
2007-10-29 07:56:17 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
a human invention....your soul dies with you, when your neurons and axons stop working
2007-10-29 07:57:58 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋
A human construct, nothing more.
2007-10-29 07:52:42 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 1⤋