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Christians, what is a soul?

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  • 4 years ago

    The soul is the spiritual part of a human. The soul is the essential nature of human consciousness and freedom. Soul and body together form one unique human being.

    Each human soul is individual and immortal, immediately created by God at the moment of conception.

    The soul does not die with the body, from which it is separated by death, and with which it will be reunited in the final resurrection.

    For more information, see the Catechism of the Catholic Church, sections 363 and following.

    With love in Christ.

  • 4 years ago

    The spirit you plus the physical stuff you .

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    A soul is a living breathing human being when a person dies his spirit returns to God and that person ceases to be a soul.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    The soul is what the Devil wants to buy. The Devil will teach you to play the banjo, guitar, or fiddle for your soul. The Devil has plenty of other stuff to trade for your soul. Real good stuff.

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  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    It is the core of who you are. Your will, intellect and emotions.

    I am a spirit who has a soul that lives in a temporary dwelling - the body.

    You are a soul that has a body. The body also has a mind all it's own. The spirit part of you is dormant, like an egg without fertilization.

    God penetrates your heart with His seed, if you believe in your heart and confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord.

    The soul becomes the intercessor between the spirit man amd the fleshly desires of the body. Eventually the soul submits to the will of the spirit which is aligned with the will of God.

  • 4 years ago

    In the second chapter of Genesis, we are given details about how God created man, It says that he created a body from the elements of the earth, and spirit that was breathed from his won breathe, and their their union formed a living soul Man was made to have one nature that touches the physical realm, one nature that touches the spiritual realm and one nature that resides between them.

    The soul is the mind. It is where the will, emotions, and intelligence of a person resides. It receives information from the body and the spirit, and then makes the decisions about what we will do, how we will act, what we will say and believe, etc.

    It resides within the physical brain. But it is more than just chemical and electrical impulses. It is connected to the spirit and continues to exist as conscious form if the body dies.

    It is the "real" you. The life that comes from the union of body and spirit.

  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    A soul is a person or an animal - Ecclesiastes 3:19 - for there is an outcome for humans and an outcome for animals; they all have the same outcome. As the one dies, so the other dies; and they all have but one spirit. So man has no superiority over animals, for everything is futile. - - - - The difference between the soul of an animal and that of a human, is that humans are created with the choice of free will. They can choose to obey God, or not. Ezekiel 18:4 - Look! All the souls—to me they belong. As the soul of the father so also the soul of the son — to me they belong. The soul who sins is the one who will die. - - - - What does God's Word, the Bible teach about the soul and the spirit? - https://www.jw.org/en/publications/books/bible-tea...

  • Den B7
    Lv 7
    4 years ago

    It's a part of a shoe or a music genre.

  • 4 years ago

    In the words of George MacDonald “You don’t have a soul. You are a Soul. You have a body.”

  • 4 years ago

    The soul is the life from the union of the spirit and body.

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