Can the two words ... spirit and soul... share the same definition... or have they two distinct different applications to their meanings?
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They are different, Spirit is of course the Spirit of man, Soul is the Body and the spirit together.
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soul    (sl) KEY  \n\nNOUN: \n\nThe animating and vital principle in humans, credited with the faculties of thought, action, and emotion and often conceived as an immaterial entity. \nThe spiritual nature of humans, regarded as immortal, separable from the body at death, and susceptible to happiness or misery in a future state. \nThe disembodied spirit of a dead human. \nA human: "the homes of some nine hundred souls" (Garrison Keillor). \nThe central or integral part; the vital core: "It saddens me that this network ... may lose its soul, which is after all the quest for news" (Marvin Kalb). \nA person considered as the perfect embodiment of an intangible quality; a personification: I am the very soul of discretion. \nA person's emotional or moral nature: "An actor is ... often a soul which wishes to reveal itself to the world but dare not" (Alec Guinness). \nA sense of ethnic pride among Black people and especially African Americans, expressed in areas such as language, social customs, religion, and music. \nA strong, deeply felt emotion conveyed by a speaker, a performer, or an artist. \nSoul music.
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We need to distinguish between Mind and Soul.  The mind is indeed a function of the brain, and the Soul is mostly indistinguishable from it while the brain is functioning.  We therefore leave open the question of whether the Soul is something quite apart, which can exist without the physical "housing" of the brain.  I personally think it is something different, and does exist apart from any physical structure, but my reasons are all spiritual/religious, and not in the least scientific.  The most scientific analogy is an idea or a concept, perhaps an archetype.  They clearly exist outside of any physical structure, and I believe the soul does, too.  My real question is whether it is an individual soul, and therefore there are billions of them, or whether we share souls at a higher dimension/level than we normally perceive.  The jury is still out on that one.
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And they ask you concerning the Spirit; Say: "The Spirit is one of the things, the knowledge of which is only with my Lord. And of knowledge, you (mankind) have been given only a little." (Quran 17:85)\n\nRegarding Saint Nearly question:\nProphet Muhammed (pbuh) told that the soul get introduced into the body on day 40 of the conception.
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Your soul is your heart and spirit. It makes you love hate hurt. It makes you cry laugh.
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Yes, I think so. It is very difficult for me to really ponder something in a crowded room with lots of noise. The Spirit will come by the still small voice, and it is by the Spirit that we learn of the things of God. Our ways are not His ways. His way is through the quiet and simple things. Our ways are the ways of the world, loud, and complex.\n\nI hope this helps.
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No one knows exactly.  It's interchangeable with matter, but no one knows exactly what matter is either.  We can describe properties of matter and energy with reference to each other, but we can't really objectively understand what they are.
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I have heard that we all have a twin soul somewhere in the world.  I have never heard of sister soul, however.  Doesn't mean that it is not true.  I am no authority.
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According to most religions, the soul is a gas like material that leaves your body when you die. if so, than I know what my soul feels like, since it leaves my body quite often, especially after I eat certain foods.
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Spiritual means invisible...\n\nReligion is what someone personally practices...\n\nSpirituality is in the realm of inner feelings...
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A soul is an intangible, spiritual being.  I too believe that our pets have souls, but how can a soul weigh something if it is your deepest emotions and values?
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I don't follow  a book.  I believe the energy or essence of the soul lives on.  Simply stated, think of a door.  It opens; you leave one room and enter another.  Levels, planes, rooms, whatever word you want to use.  Some have had a glimpse of other levels.  They know by their experiences what exists beyond this small world we perceive.
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The soul according to many religious and philosophical traditions, is the ethereal substance — spirit (Hebrew:rooah or nefesh) — particular to a unique living being. Such traditions often consider the soul both immortal and innately aware of its immortal nature, as well as the true basis for sentience in each living being.
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Great question. It seems to me that the mind and the spirit are like a peace of string. The string has two ends but is still one. The mind is one end of the string and the spirit the other end.\n\nTo try and make them two different parts is like saying bone and morrow are not connected.\n\nOn one end the mind is where thinking and thoughts are formed. From there action is taken and habits are formed. From there our character is made.\n\nThe spirit is harder to explain. Yet in simple terms is is our life force, our nature, our very being.\n\nOur conscience is the connector. When  we are in sync with our spirit our mind is at peace. When our conscience is distrubed it is b/c we are out of sync with our spirit..our true purpose.\n\nOne and the same? No. Connected, intertwined, yes!
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Spirit is not flesh and blood.  One Spirit became flesh and lived on our planet as Jesus Christ of Nazareth.
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Personally, I like how C.S. Lewis stated it (I think it was Lewis - if not someone please correct me):  "We don't have souls, we are souls. We have bodies."
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God choses His words very carefully.  We can not "substitue" a word God uses for another, but what we can do is to compare spritual things with spirtial.  \nFor example:  I am (Jesus - the Great I AM) the resurrection (Jesus - salvation) and the life (Jesus - salvation.) Jn 11:25.\nAlthough we might worship The Resurrection (Jesus), we do not perse worship resurrection, but as Christians can believe in it in that Christ was the first born from the dead.