Does your soul belong to you or your god?
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To both.   I am "Rational Spirituality".
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In the Old Testament, the soul is the entire individual, his body and mind.\nSpirit is the breath of God, who breathes life into the soul. A life force.\n\nGreek influence on Judaism and Christianity, created a dualism between the body and soul. The soul leaves the body at death. Spirit is sometimes used as the same soul. Deepak Schopa (not spelling that right) makes a distinction between all 3.
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All God's wisdom is contained in God himself only.  He only shares part of this wisdom with us to help us. Scripture says the secret things belong to God, but what he reveals belongs to man.
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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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Absolutelty awe inspiring.  To know that our souls are such precious things that even the "Gods" would fight for them.  That is why I love my soul, myself soooooo much, because both God AND satan want it.  Wow!!!!
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I have a soul and a body.\nAfter death, I will keep only my soul.
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the Bible reveals the answer.\n\nPaul said that this body is but a tent. to be absent from the body is to present with the Lord (For Believers)\n\nyour body is temporal. your soul & spirit are eternal.\n\nyour soul is your intellect, emotions, and will.\n\nyour Spirit is the Life force God himself breathed into each of us.\n\nyou are an immortal being. but the question is where will you reside after the shadow of this world is no more?\n\nHeaven....... Hell........ your decision to receive/reject the Gift Jesus secured for you will determine that eternal. address.
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Dear Bruno cs:  We generally recognize that we seemingly have two parts of Mind inside of ourselves.  One we tend to think of as the human Intellect - our human awareness or consciousness.  \n\nMany of us also recognize that something else seems to exist within us - which is our spirit or soul.\n\nI see both parts as my singular Self.  In the physical world we use a human thing called Intellect, to learn of the world we find ourselves in.  But, I experience my soul/spirit as guiding me to Thoughts that are sublime, transcendent and morally higher than what my Intellect perceives and offers to me.  And, so I perceive that both parts exist within me.\n\nSince all earthly things have emanated from the All Knowledge of something greater than humans, I have determined that something greater must be the Absolute Knowledge of Spirit.  The first Spirit is - as I contemplate it - the Creator - whether or not it Created the physical world.  What it DID Create is more of it's Self - other Spirit-Minds.\n\nI see the physical body as a home or temple for the Spirit that I am - the Altar in this temple of my flesh - is my soul or Spirit-being.  The flesh is temporal and ages and withers.  It experiences a death.  HOWEVER, body is an empty thing, an empty vessel  - without YOU operating it.\n\nSoul or Spirit is eternal.  When Jesus demonstrated the Resurrection, he showed a re-appearance of body and a continuation of it - for as long as he desired.  Did he demonstrate this as a special ability of his own?  Or, did he mean for it to demonstrate a Truth about each of us, and that he was similar to us?  I choose this latter sentence.\n\nEternal-ness is an attribute of Soul/Spirit.  I do not believe physical birth is a beginning.  It is a continuing of Soul/Spirit which was, originally, Created  -  not made (as in human procreation).\n\nI believe you canNOT die, even through Free Will, because the Creator of our true Self, Spirit, created in His Own Likeness and, therefore, Eternal-ness belongs to us.  Physical life is like a continuum. . .the Soul makes appearances ; through a process human Intellect accepts and has named procreation.\n\nWe do not die.\n\nBest regards, Lana
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I believe when I die here, I will go either to heaven or hell.  the soul never dies.  it will keep on living, because the Bible speaks of eternity in heaven or hell so even fire can not kill the soul.
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I guess that is a question of faith, there is no way to prove anyone has a soul,but if you believe in God, I would say no, because God gives a baby a soul when they are conceived in their mother's womb. To clone someone is not God's doing but man's. God would not give a soul to something he didn't create. Man making clones is like them trying to eliminate the need for God.
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soul or spirit ......if you have done good things in your life it sgoes to the heaven ...if u hav done wrong things ,absolutely it goes to hell....and it becomes useles ..this is the truth .....
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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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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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I believe that our soul journeys through this world, in many different lifetimes, till we have learned all the lessons put before us and we attain enlightenment.  Then our soul is freed from this earth and obtains a celestial form.  I don't believe in heaven or hell.  Hell is re-living the same lesson over and over again because we're too stupid to get it!  I've known a few people who have done that!  I don't think our souls could inhabit an animal body.  That just doesn't make sense to me.
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Soul enters Body at moment of conception.\nSoul is immortal and obviously body lays down and turns back to dust.\nI believe We are Spiritual Beings(SOUL-part of the Great IAM,GOD) in a Physical(BODY).  It seems to me most people figure it the other way around--physical beings, trying to SOMEHOW become Spiritual Beings.  maybe they will catch on once the meet their maker.
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If you don't belong to Jesus, you already belong to satan.\n\nDon't you know you are a slave to the power that you choose to obey?  Whether it is righteousness leading to life, or sin leading to death?\n\nIn other words, you don't need to "sell your soul to the devil"  he's already got it.\n\nBut remember, satan only offers death and misery.  He came to kill, steal, and destroy.  Jesus can set you free from the law of sin and death.  He came to give Life, and that more abundantly.
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your spirit is your thought, your soul is your being