I came across the word "soul" in a book I'm reading and wondered if the word (aside from relating to a music type) is a religious term or not. It goes with spirit, essence etc. So if you are agnostic does that negate there is a "soul"?
In Genesis 2.7 of the KJV we find that "man became a living soul." This would seem to indicate that man could also be a "dead" soul. They play with the Hebrew word nephesh or "breath" to indicate that god breathed into man to bring him to life. Nothing says that god gave man a soul or that mankind "has a soul." You cannot get diehard believers away from this idea however. Despite Ecclesiastes 9.5 saying that "the dead know nothing" believers chose to go along with Saul of Tarsus who had visions and revelations as St. Paul. In doing so the man could never tell whether he was "in or out of his body" and since he is credited with writing two thirds of the NT people easily are convinced that they can jump around from place to place without their bodies and they are tricked into thinking this is all "biblical." This borders very closely on what we know of a sleep or dreaming realm where we can do many things that are impossible to those who are awake. You do not have a soul. You are the soul.
It's your ghost before you die =)
I don't believe in either.
Precisely does human personality identity consciousness exist before and/or after death ?? Do other animals birds elephants fish worms
mosquitoes have "souls" ???? Our Atheism and Agnosticism surely are independent of your question unless the alleged bible gawd is beaming souls into ZYGOTES (a ripe ovum with sperm DNA pairing into the womans egg) ?????....If so, identical twins are either 2 half souls dividing 24 hours after "conception" or one twins life did not begin with a soul....same goes for triplets....one half soul and 2 quarter souls 48 hours later OR ONE SOUL and 2 beings without alleged souls.....bible math and religion is FUBAR fucked up beyond all reality....