If the soul is immortal, does that mean it has always existed? (Jesus, reject)

[Ori]

I really don't know or understand .

[Rick123123]

I think the energy in the sould has always existed it was just in different forms before it took shape into the form it is now, like before it was I or you it was a part of God then it broke off and created the soul.

[joeboonda]

We are created being and therefore have a beginning. anything with a beginning needs a cause. When you were conceived (you know the cause, lol), you got your beginning. Now you are here and your soul that had its beginning when you did, will live on forever in Heaven or Hell, depending on whether you accept or reject the provison God made for you through his Son Jesus' death, burial, and ressurection. Note that God, who is outside time, didnt have a beginning, and therefore didn't have a cause, has existed eternally, but once he made the universe and set the world in motion both it and us had a cause.

[Jaymes]

Assuming such a thing as a soul exists and that it was immortal, I'd say yes.

[Terrywoodenpic]

In the same way that God is immortal so is the soul as it is of God and returns to God.

Terry
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[joeboonda]

As I said you had a beginning .as you had a cause, therefore your soul began when you were concieved.

[Pussyfoot Mouse]

Everything must have a beginning and an end.

[Katzpur]

Originally Posted by orichalcum

If the soul is immortal, does that mean it has always existed?

I'm going to start by substituting the word "spirit" for "soul" because the physical body and the spirit together comprise what I believe to be a "living soul." I don't believe our spirits have always existed, but I do believe that God created them prior to conception (the point in time when our physical bodies started to develop). I believe we existed in spirit form with God, prior to our mortality. While the Bible does not clearly state this doctrine, a number of verses allude to it.

Prior to the time that God created our spirits, we existed as "intelligences." "Intelligence," as used in this context, means "light of truth." It was not created or made, but is co-eternal with God. So, our spirit matter has always existed, but God organized this matter and created our spirits. When God infuses a physical body with a spirit, that spirit leaves His presence and continues to dwell in that body throughout a person's mortal life. At death, the spirit leaves the body, but continues to exist as a cognitive entity. At resurrection, it will once again rejoin the body, but the body will have, by then, been made immortal.

[Scuba Pete]

Does it matter? We could debate how many angels dance on the head of a pin as well. (We all know that angels do the cha cha)

[joeboonda]

Originally Posted by Pussyfoot Mouse

Everything must have a beginning and an end.

Everything except God, as he is outside of time and has always existed. "His goings forth are from everlasting"