This publication addresses the issue that in one form or another asks himself almost any thinking person.Even small children are often interested in the mysteries of the universe, they ask their parents where and how did the world.Ask and questions like: "What is the soul?" And "If she lives within me, then what comes after my death?".Years pass and many people are shifting their attention to the solution of certain problems, while others are on the path of spiritual search.
In order to understand what the soul is, you must ask what sources say about this spiritual knowledge.For example, it may be the Bible, the Koran, the Bhagavad-Gita.In one of the epistles of the Apostle Paul says that the Spirit, soul and body should not have any defect.There are several biblical meanings of the term of interest to us:
- living being: a person or an animal.
- personality.
- life.
Reflecting on the previously mentioned letter of the Apostle Paul and other passages of Scripture, we can draw the appropriate conclusion: the soul - a person's identity.You could say differently: "Man - it is the Spirit who has soul and he lives in the body."There are other views as the theme itself has raised for centuries.You may recall the Greek philosopher Democritus, who gave the soul of the material properties of the substance.Her constituents he felt light, moving atoms of fire.
Plato had an understanding, more approximate to the interpretation that we proposed on the basis of the texts of Scripture - the Bible.This Greek philosopher and disciple of Socrates acknowledged the substance of the soul self that lives in the body.Plato, considering this question, it is anticipated that the essence of the divine and eternal, sublime and invisible.The pupil of Plato, Aristotle created the famous treatise, which is called "the soul."It denies that it may be material.
But Aristotle, in contrast to the idealist philosophers, does not accept the consideration of the term separate from the living body (matter).The main function of the soul he calls the implementation of the body's biological functions.If we go back to Socrates, that learned man, a philosopher of ancient Greece, a lot of dedicated study of the mysteries of the universe and the consideration of human nature.If we could ask him, what is the soul, the answer could also appear similar to the biblical meaning of the word.
Socrates claimed that during his life on Earth man is preparing his soul to its continued existence.He believed that her real life begins only after the death of the physical body.Something like that term considering religion, meaning it an entity, linking God with man.Even in the book "Genesis" it is written that after God breathed into the crown of his creation life, man became a living soul.
Moreover, if you carefully study the Scriptures, we can pay attention to the fact that God also has a soul.It is written that it can display certain emotions.For example: to love, to enjoy, to hate, be happy, sad, discouraged, embarrassed.It is noteworthy that the spirit of the Bible, there are the animals.In the book of Ecclesiastes it says that no one knows where he is going after death.And in chapter 17 of the book "Leviticus" (10 - 14 verses), prohibits the acceptance of the blood of animals into the food.
is prescribed to give blood to flow to the ground, and only then ready to catch a bird or beast.The reason is just that this substance is the soul of the animal.
turns out that the question of what the human soul or animal, we can give the following answer: "It is an immortal, immaterial entity that lives on after the death of the physical body."You can not leave without attention and psychology, which owes its name to such a phrase as "the science of the soul."In fact, an unambiguous answer to the question in this study, it does not.
modern psychology inherent in a term such as "mentality" which, in turn, consists of the subconscious, and super-consciousness.Indeed, somehow Soul study under laboratory conditions is impossible.Accordingly, each person has the right to a personal understanding of the issue.
