What is the Soul?

The dictionary defines the Soul as belonging to one person or is the spirit and essence of a person. An example of your soul is the part of you that makes you who you are and that will live on after your death.

Another example of a soul is that part of you that will go to heaven and be immortal, according to the teachings of certain religions.

The New Testament counterpart to the Old Testament word for soul, nephesh, is psyche. The two words carry a similar range of meanings. Both can designate the person or the person’s life as a whole.

The soul or atman, credited with the ability to enliven the body, was located by ancient anatomists and philosophers in the lungs or heart, in the pineal gland (Descartes), and generally in the brain.

Did you know that it is said that our Soul has five (5) parts? They are: Heart, Shadow, Name, Soul, and Spark.

Latter-day Saints believe that the soul is the union of a pre-existing, God-made spirit and a temporal body, which is formed by physical conception on earth. After death, the spirit continues to live and progress in the Spirit world until the resurrection, when it is reunited with the body that once housed it.

The Tagbanwa people, where a person is said to have six souls — the “free soul” (which is regarded as the “true” soul) and five secondary souls with various functions.

While the two words are often used interchangeably, the primary distinction between soul and spirit in man is that…