Do we have a soul? I have often wondered???

So, if we do what is it, and how would you define it?

It is a question that I really have tried to answer myself but have failed. I'm not talking about a soul in the catholic sense, but do we have somthing more than our mind, or is it just a collection of neurons.

I would like to think that we do not, but at the same time I feel that there is somthing more to us than just the physical.

 

I think each of us is a spirit put in a human's body and givin a human mind. At the end of our human life our spirits will move on. Our minds and bodies will be toast. After dying some of us, if we choose will be reborn. Some spirits will be reborn automatically, some will be reborn at a later point in time, after our sins are paid for. If we decide to die then our souls will die and we no longer will exist. After all we are all trinitys....Body, Mind, and Spirit (or as most people call a Spirit a Soul). That is my thought at 5:11 am.

i believe your  soul is your very essence of being.when you are with that certain special person you feel strong and alive aand when they leave you feel weak and vulnerable,it is not your physical being that takes the punishment and abuse nor is it the physical being that accepts the strength,but it is something much deeper.

Really, honestly, I don't think we have a soul (the kind of soul Christianity and so on say we have).

However, I think we do have a conscience. By this I mean, a range of different emotions that react with what happens around us and what we see and do so on and can make us sad, happy, worried, nervous and so on. For example when we do something wrong and regret it which results us in feeling bad.

But in all honesty no one can answer 'yes' because there's no science behind the 'soul' that's probably why you failed trying to find out if you have one.

Many thoughts linger in my mind about the 'soul'. Where is the soul?

What does it do? It doesn't really do anything. I was taught at primary school, everytime I did something bad, a black dot went on my soul and when I went to heaven they would be on me and God would count how many black dots there were, so now when I think back it's more of a way for religion to control people.

If I cut myself why doesn't the soul escape? The only things that are inside us are organs, bones, chemicals and so on.

We are nothing more but animals. My teacher said our souls go upto heaven when we die. I replied 'Miss, if I kill a bee, does it's soul go to heaven?" She didn't have an answer.

So to conclude I think, as intelligent life, as humans, I think the only reason we ask questions like this is because we have the brain capacity to do so. But really these are questions we could never answer and so far have no backing scientific evidence.

Hope this helps.

Celeste Said: Really, honestly, I don't think we have a soul (the kind of soul Christianity and so on say we have).However, I think we do have a conscience. By this I mean, a range of different emotions that react with what happens around us and what we see and do so on and can make us sad, happy, worried, nervous and so on. For example when we do something wrong and regret it which results us in feeling bad.

Response: Celeste, this is pretty much Christianity's dxefinition of the Soul

The will, intellect and emotions are the makeup of the Soul.

The Soul is contained in the Spirit, whcih makes it eternal.

The Spirit is contained in the Body.

Hence, we are three parts whcih make the whole:

Spirit, Soul and Body.