Do people have soul? What happened whit it before death?

Question

One axample, in a plane crash onr in a boat collapce; people from different religion died, if exists a heaven; which people from which religion should go to that heaven?

Answer 1

No, we're just atoms and molecules.

What could a 'soul' be, if we had one?

If it's postulated that consciousness, or awareness, or sense of self resides in the soul, it's difficult to see how this can be reconciled with the complete oblivion which accompanies general anaesthesia. How could a straightforward chemical, injected into the bloodstream, anaesthetise a soul so that it effectively ceases to exist during this time? If consciousness, in the form of a soul, were some kind of supernatural faculty, it would seem implausible that it could be completely disabled by a chemical.

How about some of the other things which we regard as essential parts of what makes a person what they are? How about love, compassion, reason, empathy, memory, conscious thought, character, 'spirituality' and so on? Well, there is really no plausible doubt that all these things are properties of the physical brain - We can alter all of these properties very simply with alcohol or other drugs, and observe how they change in people who have suffered significant brain damage. Previously placid people become uncontrollably violent, intelligent people become imbeciles, and so on. Stimulate the brain artificially, and the subject reports corresponding mental activity, e.g. 'religious experiences'. We can see from brain research that all these things - thought, emotion, sensation, character traits and so on - are correlated with activity in the brain, and some things can be identified with specific areas of the brain.

So, if all these faculties and characteristics of what we regard as the 'person' reside in the physical brain, as seems to be undeniably the case, and they all cease when the person dies, then what is left to be attributed to a 'soul'? As far as I can ascertain: Nothing. If there is no part of us that can continue after death, then there is no 'afterlife'... and if there is no afterlife, then most of religion is null and void.

Suppose you're at the beach and you make a nice big fancy sandcastle, complete with moat and turrets and so on. Later, the tide comes in and washes it all away - the sand gets spread around the beach and all trace of your sandcastle disappears.

Where did it go? Well, clearly the castle didn't 'go' anywhere as such - it was a temporary arrangement of grains of sand that went to make up something recognisable to us, and when the sea washed it away, it simply ceased to exist. Another day, someone else might come along and make another castle using some of the same sand that went into your castle, but the one you made is gone and can never exist again.

This is how it is with human beings - we are recognisable to ourselves and others as living organisms, but fundamentally we are temporary constructions of atoms and molecules and will one day simply cease to exist. Just as the sandcastle consists solely of the sand from which it is made, so human beings consist solely of the atoms and molecules of which we are made. When we die, our bodies will be returned to the environment to be incorporated into new living organisms, or to fall as rain, or to make the bedrock of a million years from now. We are ephemeral creatures, a brief pattern of order and complexity imposed on the raw material of the natural world.

Answer 2

All humans have souls. Only humans will be judged by God for their good and bad deeds on their earthly life.

Heaven is not reserved for followers of any religion. But only those will go to heaven who believe on one and only God. And they could be from any religion and even from the tribes of Amazon Jungle where no religion was ever introduced.
Some of them also have enough sense that this world must have been created by some one high Above. If they believe that high above, and lived their life following the rules of their tribe and didn't hurt any one, they may also get to enter Heaven.

Answer 3

Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Actually, we are the living soul while still living according to Geneses Chapter 1 verse 7.
It is only God who could tell whether a certain man will go to heaven or hell at the time of judgement
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Answer 4

Well I believe there is only one God so I believe that all the different names people have for God refers to the same entity.
So when we die our souls leave the body and go Heaven or hell or maybe even get a do over.
Pergatory I think they call it.

Answer 5

Yes in line with islamic teaching all live humans have soul and spirit given by Allah the only one God.Soul is kept by Allah if someone sleep but his/her spirit is left in his/her body.If we wake up it means that God has given back someone's soul.to his/her body.All humans who died in a plane crash will go to heaven or to hell just depend on whether they have more good doings than their bad doings or oppositely and whether they have a strong faith or weak faith to Allah or do not have faith at all (atheists)

Answer 6

When the body dies, you are pure energy. Your energy/soul will go where it vibrates to magnetically. There is no clearly defined "heaven" or "hell" but there is an energy continum. Like attracts like. If you are bad energy, you are going to a bad place, if you are good energy, you are going to a good place. That is a major simplification, but you get the point.

Answer 7

The people who believe in Jesus Christ, and have accepted them as their Lord and Savior will go to heaven.

Answer 8

When u die ur body stayes whereever and the soul goes to either heaven or hell

Answer 9

No, it's part of the whole biblical fairy tale thing.