Never understood what a “soul” exactly is. Like when a person says “promise me your soul” what does that mean, what is your soul? Is it like your body after your dead or something?
The soul is the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being regarded as immortal. Since it is nonphysical (like preferences) it cannot be detected physically. Some are more soulful or spiritual than others.
In the Bible, "soul" is translated fron the Hebrew nephesh and the Greek psykhe. Bible usage shows the soul to be a person or an animal or the ife that a person or an animal enjoys.
To many persons, however, "soul" means the immatrtial or spirit part of a human being that survives the death of the physical body. But these is not a Bible teaching.
How about the energy of life itself. Energy cannot be created or detroyed, so what happens to that energy after death? Could that be the soul / spirit ?
There may be a fair debate on the exact meaning, but I believe that it is not your dead body, but rather yourself or your emotional self that is left over after the body is gone.
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So you can trim your fingernails and cut your hair, and have teeth pulled, and your appendix and such ...and still be 'you'. Continue this line of thought , you can be on a ventilator and maybe an artificial heart and still be 'you'. All your body can eventually fall apart, (or be replaced) and you would still be 'you.'. It is you without any physical attributes (or limitations)