Ananias and Sapphira ( Acts 5:1-11 )

[mitchellmckain (Scientist and Christian)]

In looking for the discussion of the soul in this thread I found many more such discussions and thought I should link them up to this one.

Do humans have a non-physical soul? (And how does modern science affect the question?)

@GJDS @Jon_Garvey @Humeandroid @John_T_Mullen @Joao @johnZ @jstump @Eddie This topic will be used as a “sample” during an upcoming tutorial video I am currently producing to help people use Discourse correctly. The topic is currently hidden from the public page, because posting here implies that you consent to your comments being shown (briefly) in this tutorial video, which will likely be viewed by thousands of people. (Everything you post is already public, but I thought I would extent the co…

What use is the idea of soul? What is a soul like?

“If something as complex as morality has a mechanical explanation, it’ll be hard to argue that people have or need a soul. So is the idea of a soul a redundant idea now that science has made us see it as a superstition or are we turning our backs on something important just because we can’t satisfy demands for precision and are we in fact making a category mistake?” He then presents the two questions he will address which form this post’s title. He thinks he has an answer to the first but is…

Soul as opposed to Spirit and where the Eastern Orthodox stand on this

An off topic digression in another thread had me digging through the internet for the Eastern Orthodox understanding of the word “soul.” Personally, I am not a big fan of this word at all. It origins lie with the ideas of other religious traditions like Gnosticism and transmigration. There is not much said about the soul in the Bible, but the spirit is spoken of much more clearly by Paul in 1 Cor 15. It should be noted that Eastern Orthodox are often not so easy to get precise answers on a l…

What is the soul?

What in your opinion ‘is’ the soul? Is it a Platonic soul which is separated from the body, or is it an Aristotelian soul, which is basically another word for the purpose or function of an object? Or is it something else? Is the soul merely our connection to God, or does the soul contain reason, consciousness and other cognitive faculties? Are only humans the ones with souls? I used to be an Aristotelian, and though I am still a Virtue Ethicist, I reject Aristotle’s strict teleology, and believ…

More on Immortal Soul: When did humankind aquire one

I read the Guardian article (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/jan/21/-sp-why-cant-worlds-greatest-minds-solve-mystery-consciousness) you linked and it was fascinating. It’s interesting that after all these years, science cannot come up with an acceptable model of how consciousness happens. In addition, scientists are also pretty much mystified by the speed in which behavioral modernity showed up during the Great Leap Forward (as @aleo has talked about). It seems to me that those 2 myste…