The nature of a soul...?

Question

Most people say they have a soul, even if you can't exactly point to it and say "here it is". I just saw a question asking if animals have souls, and most people said "yes". My question is, do all living things have souls? Maybe you'd agree with a cat having one, or even a squirrel, and if you're feeling generous, a rat. But what about bacteria? Does a virus have a soul? How about tapeworms? Does a tree have one, or a mushroom?

It's all very confusing to me. Where is the line? Can anything that is alive not have a soul?

Answer 1

  The soul is that spiritual nature in man which is more than what is found in the creation. It is spiritual, reasoning, and immortal

[ Leviticus17:11; Ecclesiastes3:21; Matthew 10:28]

2] The word soul is synonymous with the life of man [ Psalm 7:5; 33:19]

Answer 2

I wonder that too, but what I really wonder is just what does the soul do.

Most say its what keeps the body alive, but without the body what good is the soul? Why should I care what happens to my soul after I die if all it was doing in the first place was keeping my body alive.

Answer 3

There isn't a shred of evidence for any such thing.  It's just fiction.

Answer 4

What do ya think of this. God in the beginning said I formed you out of the earth and all life came from the earth! Then I blew the breath of life into you. He then said that the life is in the blood. Heres what i'm thinking That life in the Blood should not be from the earth as it came from God, So if you look to DNA you see that red blood cells have no dna, 25 trillion pushing oxygen around the body to give life to the Body.

So maybe this is where we find the soul.

As far as I know nothing else in the world can be found to not have dna.

Just a thought.

Answer 5

Just because bacteria and tape worms are "icky" doesn't mean they can't have a soul.

I don't claim to be a spiritual expert, nor a scholar, but I don't see why they couldn't have a soul.

And it's possible trees do as well. We were both created by God, and our cell structures are pretty similar. I don't see why we couldn't both have souls.

Answer 6

The soul of a human being is described in the Bible as consisting of the mind, emotions and the will [Samuel 5:8; Job 6:7; Psalm 86:4; 139:14; Song of Solomon 1:7; 2 Lamentations 3:20; 1 Corinthians 14:14].

Obviously not all living things have a soul - as described above.