The Epicureans considered the soul to be made up of atoms like the rest of the body. For the Platonists, the soul was an immaterial and incorporeal substance, akin to the gods yet part of the world of change and becoming.
Your soul is the part of you that consists of your mind, character, thoughts, and feelings. Many people believe that your soul continues existing after your body is dead.
According to Genesis 2:7 God did not make a body and put a soul into it like a letter into an envelope of dust; rather he formed man's body from the dust, then, by breathing divine breath into it, he made the body of dust live, i.e. the dust did not embody a soul, but it became a soul – a whole creature.
Nowadays, Quantum Physics and other branches of Science are seriously considering the existence of the Soul. It has been frequently described as a body of unknown energy coupled to human body by means of a mutual interaction. This type of energy from the viewpoint of Physics has been considered as Imaginary Energy.
In other words, each person's soul is divided into three different parts, and these parts are simply in different balance from one person to the next. Plato defines the soul's three parts as the logical part, the spirited part, and the appetitive part.
The soul or atman, credited with the ability to enliven the body, was located by ancient anatomists and philosophers in the lungs or heart, in the pineal gland (Descartes), and generally in the brain.
Your soul speaks of your inner-life in relation to your own experience: your mind, heart, will, and imagination. It also includes your thoughts, desires, passions, and dreams. But your spirit speaks of the same inner-life in relation to God: your faith, hope, love, character, and perseverance.
This (the Soul) cannot be destroyed by weapons, fire cannot burn it, water cannot wet it & air cannot dry it. Soul is immortal & is unaffected by all means.
The Catholic conception of the afterlife teaches that after the body dies, the soul is judged, the righteous and free of sin enter Heaven. However, those who die in unrepented mortal sin go to hell.
Your soul needs salvation and eternal life
The most important thing our soul, our whole being, needs is God's salvation. When God saves our soul, He saves us whole. The peace and love of God is our inheritance through Jesus Christ. God's greatest gift is the gift of himself to us in the person and work of Jesus Christ.
For (1) the soul is the principle of life in the body; now all the parts of the body are living; therefore the soul is in every part of the body. (2) The same conclusion is drawn from the fact that the soul is the principle of sensation, and that it is sentient in each part of the body.
The seven Spirits of God (Greek: τα επτά πνεύματα του θεού, ta hepta pneumata tou theou) are mentioned four times in the Book of Revelation, and in the Book of Isaiah it names each Spirit.
the Soul, which says that a human soul was made up of five parts: Heart, Shadow, Name, Soul and Spark.
Traditionally, science has dismissed the soul as an object of human belief. While science has explained some of the functioning of the human brain, the reason for one's subjective experience remains mysterious.
No matter what a person's preference is, from the Christian perspective, cremation does not prevent one from going to Heaven.
In the time of Aristotle, it was widely believed that the human soul entered the forming body at 40 days (male embryos) or 90 days (female embryos), and quickening was an indication of the presence of a soul.
In brain dead cases, the spirit or soul is usually out of the body, though often the brain dead person's spirit stays with the body until life support is switched off.
How can you tell if you have suffered a soul loss? You may feel detached, empty, devoid of purpose, unable to concentrate and aimless in life. Some people experience deep depression and suicidal thoughts. Many simply suffer memory loss of crucial years from early childhood.
Dislike, hate and contempt do more damage to your soul than to the person you have it for. Let it go. It's about you, not them. The less attachment you have to material obsessions, the lighter your soul will be.
Death is repeatedly compared with sleep, which is at times described as “the little death.” God takes away people's souls “during their sleep” and “upon their death.” He “retains those against whom he has decreed death, but returns the others to their bodies for an appointed term” (39:42–43).
soul, in religion and philosophy, the immaterial aspect or essence of a human being, that which confers individuality and humanity, often considered to be synonymous with the mind or the self.
The soul's purpose usually involves opening up to the realization that we are all one with each other and that we must learn how to help others and humankind. We are given many chances to become one with our higher selves and realize what love and life are all about and how we can become all that we are meant to be.
Origin of the soul
According to soul creationism, God creates each individual soul directly, either at the moment of conception or some later time. According to traducianism, the soul comes from the parents by natural generation. According to the preexistence theory, the soul exists before the moment of conception.