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How do we know humans have souls?

Please no Captain Obvious answers. Assertions are NOT answers.

It has been taught that humans are above the rest of animals because only we have a soul. Is this just assertion or do theologians point to actions or behaviors that are indicators of a soul? Does a human clone have a soul ( assertion in Frankenstein)

Update:

Yep so far serious answers =0, But yeah, thanks.

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  • 6 years ago
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    Humans don't have souls, we are souls. The original Greek word translated "soul" is psykhe. We have this word today-psyche, or a person's conscious self. At the creation of man, the Bible says (at Genesis 2:7) that "the man came to be a living soul". Adam BECAME a soul at his creation. And what kind? A living soul, or living person.

  • 6 years ago

    Well the soul is something made up by us so really judging who or what has one depends on the person judging. A soul is not a real tangible thing it's an idea, so it's possible that everything has a soul. Or nothing does. Interesting question to say the least.

  • 6 years ago

    We don't. We don't have souls. Souls exist only in stories.

  • david
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    yes we are souls incarnate as the servants of our Lord God the Logos of earth in fact.

    We reincarnate life after life as a proven fact by our very own masters of wisdom such as Jesus and Christ and some of those who with them 2k years ago. They teach us of the immortality of the soul within and not of course our bodies that perish at death.

    Om Shantih.

  • ?
    Lv 6
    6 years ago

    Our 'soul' is where our personality resides. It is the area of our emotions as well -- The SOUL is who WE are!

    Our 'spirit' is the God conscious part of us. If we do not know God then our spirit is dead and cut off from God's Spirit (Romans 8:16) The Spirit Himself bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Because of James Brown.

  • ?
    Lv 7
    6 years ago

    "Souls" are just what superstitious people call brains. Yes, humans have brains. So do most other animals.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    I guess you gotta have one to know.

    Update: I'm not kidding.

  • Anonymous
    6 years ago

    Because you touch yourself at night.

  • 6 years ago

    I don't think that we do.

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