Can you prove to me I have a soul?

[Umaro]

Right now I don't think "the soul" exists. I think that we are entirly made up of physical components, and that when we die that it, we rot in the ground.

Can you then show me that I have a soul? I've never seen it, or felt it, and it cannot be measured with electronic equipment like other things I've never seen(my brain for instance). Where is this "soul"?

 

[Calminian]

Right now I don't think "the soul" exists. I think that we are entirly made up of physical components, and that when we die that it, we rot in the ground.

Can you then show me that I have a soul? I've never seen it, or felt it, and it cannot be measured with electronic equipment like other things I've never seen(my brain for instance). Where is this "soul"?

Do you believe in freewill? If so, I think I can show that a soul is the only logical explanation for it. The soul is that which guides our free decisions. Our decisions are not merely the product of chemical reactions in the brain. We are actually responsible for what we do with our brains. Ever told someone to "use your brain!"? This implies a decisional aspect to them that is separate from the brain. What if I told you, "it's not my fault, my brain made me do it."? Would you buy it? If there's no soul, I would think you would have to. Why should I be responsible for a chemical reaction I had no control over?

Well did I convince you?

 

[heron]

I saw something yesterday -- history channel? -- where a girl had drowned, and gone into a comatose state. The doctor talked to the girl after she recovered, and asked her what she remembered. She remembered the physician resuscitating her, and described another attending physician accurately. All the time, her eyes were closed and she was unconscious.

I can't prove anything to you, but offer you this story among many, to figure out for yourself what could explain this out-of-body awareness and presence of mind.

 

[Umaro]

I saw something yesterday -- history channel? -- where a girl had drowned, and gone into a comatose state. The doctor talked to the girl after she recovered, and asked her what she remembered. She remembered the physician resuscitating her, and described another attending physician accurately. All the time, her eyes were closed and she was unconscious.

I can't prove anything to you, but offer you this story among many, to figure out for yourself what could explain this out-of-body awareness and presence of mind.

I actually saw a show where they tested out of body experiences by placing several LED screens with unimportant words around an operating room, such as above the light fixture. Out of many instances where people claimed out of body experiences, not a single one even mentioned the screens were there, let alone what they said.

 

[Emmy]

Dear Umaro, our soul is our inner man, it grows, as our bodies grow. Human eye cannot see it, and as we learn to think, to make decisions, it is the soul which will follow our bodies. We also have a part of God`s Spirit in us, we were made in God`s image, and that small part of God`s Spirit, we call it our conscience, will lead us too, but in a way which God would approve of. The soul is following either the body`s promptings, or that small, still voice of God inside us. When we leave our bodily remains behind, it is the soul, (our inner man) which will return to our Maker, or not. God gave us free will to decide our own future, He gave us His Commandments for our own good, if we follow them, we will receive many blessings, if we ignore them, or blatantly go against them, we will pay the consequences. Jesus died to reconcile us to God, He will lead us back to God, but we must Repent, exchange our selfish and wilful natures, into loving God first, and loving each other, as we love ourselves. The Bible, God`s Word to us, will explain it more thorough, Umaro. I say this with humility and love, and send greetings. Emmy, sister in Christ.

 

[Umaro]

Dear Umaro, our soul is our inner man, it grows, as our bodies grow. Human eye cannot see it, and as we learn to think, to make decisions, it is the soul which will follow our bodies. We also have a part of God`s Spirit in us, we were made in God`s image, and that small part of God`s Spirit, we call it our conscience, will lead us too, but in a way which God would approve of. The soul is following either the body`s promptings, or that small, still voice of God inside us. When we leave our bodily remains behind, it is the soul, (our inner man) which will return to our Maker, or not. God gave us free will to decide our own future, He gave us His Commandments for our own good, if we follow them, we will receive many blessings, if we ignore them, or blatantly go against them, we will pay the consequences. Jesus died to reconcile us to God, He will lead us back to God, but we must Repent, exchange our selfish and wilful natures, into loving God first, and loving each other, as we love ourselves. The Bible, God`s Word to us, will explain it more thorough, Umaro. I say this with humility and love, and send greetings. Emmy, sister in Christ.

I know what a soul supposably is, and where Christians think it comes from. How does this in any way show me it actually exists? I don't think you're god exists, so claiming he put it there is moot. If it exists as more than an idea, I should be able to see, measure, detect, or feel it in some manner. How can I do this?

 

[Mikedatigah]

Can you then show me that I have a soul? I've never seen it, or felt it, and it cannot be measured with electronic equipment like other things I've never seen(my brain for instance). Where is this "soul"?

It's intangible. You can't see air, but you know it exists. You can't touch love, but you know what it is when you feel it, share it, or see it in others. Such is it with a soul. IMO, it's visible when I am quiet at night, as I close my eyes and think on things. It's me. It's not this clothing I have on I call my body, but rather that person inside that is the real me.

 

[Zeena]

You are not your body..

Feelings of emotion do not come from physical stimuli on occasion, nor do thoughts arise due to physical fact and neither do you decide what to do in any given situation given only physical evidences..

We all have likes and dislikes, we all have a unique personality, which is our soul

 

[Umaro]

It's intangible. You can't see air, but you know it exists. You can't touch love, but you know what it is when you feel it, share it, or see it in others. Such is it with a soul. IMO, it's visible when I am quiet at night, as I close my eyes and think on things. It's me. It's not this clothing I have on I call my body, but rather that person inside that is the real me.

I can feel air, and measure it. And love and other emotions fall under that category of ideas. The soul as religion defines it is a thing.

 

[mitchhuxley]

Where is wednesday? Where is Beethoven's 5th? Where is language? I think your starting on the wrong foot in regards to your question. The 'soul' is a reality built on an abstract template. You could demonstrate the existence a soul several times over a dinner conversation more effectivly, i believe than any neural scan could ever detect.

The fact that your questioning whether a soul exist stands testament to something more than just chemical reactions in your brain. There is nothing behavioral about such questions. I mean the world demonstrates quite effectively that you do not need a belief in god to live a happy and successful life. Yet why does the question still remain? The only logical conclusions that now remain are either there is an actual reason for this question or that the question is irrelevant. But if the question is irrelevant, why did the question of the soul ever exist?

 

[MercySaves]

You can definately feel the soul, not feel like touch but, sometimes in life you get this feeling in you, where you want to cry, because the love is so great, and you know its real, and you simply think about life of how can it be? you know it's true because of this undescribable feeling i am having, and as the music fades this feeling of faith love and hope starts fading aswell and your back in the world, where you know what the right thing to do is, but sometimes is just hard because of all these distractions. But have to carry on and keep the faith and pray for strength from God so he will keep giving you these mommets of love that definately help you stay on track.


Experienced this late last night, man i was in tears, with an awe feeling inside me. Nothing in this world can come close to that kind of high feeling of love.

 

[VictoriasImage77]

The soul is a thing. If it was a nothing, there wouldn't be a word for it.
Our soul is the force of life that animates our body (IMO). That little light behind our eyes.

Science is man's way of attempting to explain the world around him. It is a tool, and not a very exact one either, as we discover more and more about how things work.

I am a biological sciences major, nothing fascinates me more, and the more I learn, the more I know that our souls do exist. I am pretty sure that life is statistically impossible. I am also pretty sure that it doesn't matter how advanced we get....if you give a scientist all the elements of life...he still will never be able to make anything "live".

I have a lot of questions too, but the way I see it, if you haven't got any faith, there's no problem with wanting a little hope. After all, if you die and just cease to exist, well then, there you go, you won't exist to be disappointed in something that didn't happen. But if there's something to all this Christianity business, you're pretty much screwed. Kinda like not having insurance lol.

Knowing you have a soul is this very distinct, indescribable feeling. I remember the first time I felt it. The only way I can come close to explaining it is if you almost get into a huge car accident...and then you don't...and the second you realize that you are alive and not dead...it's that awe, and I'm not talking about adrenaline. You'll never know exactly unless you feel it. Some people, I believe, were never meant to get there.

 

[MercySaves]

The soul is a thing. If it was a nothing, there wouldn't be a word for it.
Our soul is the force of life that animates our body (IMO). That little light behind our eyes.

Science is man's way of attempting to explain the world around him. It is a tool, and not a very exact one either, as we discover more and more about how things work.

I am a biological sciences major, nothing fascinates me more, and the more I learn, the more I know that our souls do exist. I am pretty sure that life is statistically impossible. I am also pretty sure that it doesn't matter how advanced we get....if you give a scientist all the elements of life...he still will never be able to make anything "live".

I have a lot of questions too, but the way I see it, if you haven't got any faith, there's no problem with wanting a little hope. After all, if you die and just cease to exist, well then, there you go, you won't exist to be disappointed in something that didn't happen. But if there's something to all this Christianity business, you're pretty much screwed. Kinda like not having insurance lol.

Knowing you have a soul is this very distinct, indescribable feeling. I remember the first time I felt it. The only way I can come close to explaining it is if you almost get into a huge car accident...and then you don't...and the second you realize that you are alive and not dead...it's that awe, and I'm not talking about adrenaline. You'll never know exactly unless you feel it. Some people, I believe, were never meant to get there.

Yeah definately something like that, but for me its still a feeling i cant fully describe, like you said youll never know exactly unless you feel it. Good words!

God bless

 

[Seekermeister]

I actually saw a show where they tested out of body experiences by placing several LED screens with unimportant words around an operating room, such as above the light fixture. Out of many instances where people claimed out of body experiences, not a single one even mentioned the screens were there, let alone what they said.

I do not know that it was the same show, but I did see a program on Supernatural Science, which had an account of the experiment with the LEDs, and in the 24 instances that they had tried this, the patients had survived nearly dying, but none of them had reported any out-of-body experiences. Even if they had, I would assume that the experience would be focused on themselves, not the ceiling of the operating room.

 

[calidog]

Right now I don't think "the soul" exists. I think that we are entirly made up of physical components, and that when we die that it, we rot in the ground.

Can you then show me that I have a soul? I've never seen it, or felt it, and it cannot be measured with electronic equipment like other things I've never seen(my brain for instance). Where is this "soul"?

No.

1Co 2:11 For what man knoweth the things of a man, save the spirit of man which is in him? even so the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God.
1Co 2:12 Now we have received, not the spirit of the world, but the spirit which is of God; that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
1Co 2:13 Which things also we speak, not in the words which man's wisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth; comparing spiritual things with spiritual.
1Co 2:14 But the natural man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God: for they are foolishness unto him: neither can he know them, because they are spiritually discerned.
1Co 2:15 But he that is spiritual judgeth all things, yet he himself is judged of no man.
1Co 2:16 For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

 

[WashedClean]

Umaro - do you have a desire to believe? Because if you don't, nothing we say will probably change your mind. It's hard to explain something intangible and prove it exists. You've been given some great answers here, the question is, do you WANT to believe in a soul, or do you prefer to believe there is nothing more to us than flesh?

 

[Zeena]

Anyone not under the Grace of God would most likely prefer not to believe in the existance of a soul.. For if they do believe, it indicates eternity as fact, and would cause those who do wrong to feel condemned..

No soul=no conscience :o

 

[Paisley]

I actually saw a show where they tested out of body experiences by placing several LED screens with unimportant words around an operating room, such as above the light fixture. Out of many instances where people claimed out of body experiences, not a single one even mentioned the screens were there, let alone what they said.

Just because someone is having an operation does not mean they will have an "out of body" experience. That sounds bogus to me to begin with. Anyway, I do not believe in such things, anyway. Not yet anyway.

 

[Paisley]

The Bible states our spirit will be reunited with our body in the end. We won't be a floating vapor, or anything else like that in Paradise. Just as Jesus had a resurrected body, so will we.

 

[BAFRIEND]

No. No one can prove you have a soul. Sorry.

have a nice evening and BAFRIEND.