Differences in Soul Understanding - Abrahamics

Question aimed at Jews, Christians, Muslims and Baha'is, asked by the one Noachide

How do our views on the soul differ? How does, for example, Islam define 'soul' and how it attaches itself to G-d etc. Does the soul have parts, for instance?

We are, after all, a part of the Earth's existence, our breaths mix.

We expel and we intake and grow with the remainder.

We generate a being, that becomes a part of Earth's spirit,

and merge with the Spirit of Earth constantly while alive,

and finally merge forever with it's expansion.

Or something like that....still puzzeling

Rival said:

Question aimed at Jews, Christians, Muslims and Baha'is, asked by the one Noachide

How do our views on the soul differ? How does, for example, Islam define 'soul' and how it attaches itself to G-d etc. Does the soul have parts, for instance?

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Good question and probably not an exact position.

BUT

In my neck of the woods, the soul is our mind will and emotions.

God attaches or becomes one with our spirits. Our soul has to be reformatted or "renewed" (biblical term) to change the thinking of what used to be to what should be. That is done by engrafting the word of God into our souls (mind arena)

Remembering first or second grade in catechism the soul was represented by, of all things, a milk bottle. When you had sinned the milk bottle had dark liquid in the bottom and if you were good it was all white. God sure worked in mysterious ways....lol

WOW...magic Nuns !

Stonetree said:

Remembering first or second grade in catechism the soul was represented by, of all things, a milk bottle. When you had sinned the milk bottle had dark liquid in the bottom and if you were good it was all white. God sure worked in mysterious ways....lol

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that is interesting.... wonder how they came up with that conclusion.

Rival said:

Question aimed at Jews, Christians, Muslims and Baha'is, asked by the one Noachide

How do our views on the soul differ? How does, for example, Islam define 'soul' and how it attaches itself to G-d etc. Does the soul have parts, for instance?

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Unless I misunderstood in Catholic school we were taught the soul was our 'Essence' (our true nature as a person).

I would suggest that our soul is that part of us that is of the essence of God. And that gives us life.
It is through our souls that the Holly Spirit operates and communicates with us.
It is not part of our mind it has nothing to do with our body or will, it does not think nor contain our memories. It is our essence and connection to God, it Is that part of us that comes from and returns to God.
As an essence of God it is always pure and sinless.

Rival said:

Question aimed at Jews, Christians, Muslims and Baha'is, asked by the one Noachide

How do our views on the soul differ? How does, for example, Islam define 'soul' and how it attaches itself to G-d etc. Does the soul have parts, for instance?

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According to Bahai beliefs the soul is a sign of God, a heavenly gem whose reality the most learned of men hath failed to grasp, and whose mystery no mind, however acute, can ever hope to unravel.

The soul is not “in” the body but rather it is associated with the body and it directs the body and brain and mind. It is the soul that directs human faculties. As outer circumstances are communicated to the soul by the eyes, ears, and brain, the soul communicates its desires through the brain to the physical body, which thereby expresses itself.

The soul works through the brain and while we are alive on earth in a physical body, but when we die and no longer have a physical body the soul continues to live. It lives forever, and that is why it is called an immortal soul.

The soul is the sum total of the personality so it is the person himself; the physical body is pure matter with no real identity. The person, after he dies and leaves his physical body behind remains the same person, and he goes to the spiritual world where he continues the life he conducted in the physical world. The soul takes on some kind of a spiritual form made up of elements that exist in the spiritual world.

“The human spirit which distinguishes man from the animal is the rational soul, and these two names—the human spirit and the rational soul—designate one thing. This spirit, which in the terminology of the philosophers is the rational soul, embraces all beings, and as far as human ability permits discovers the realities of things and becomes cognizant of their peculiarities and effects, and of the qualities and properties of beings”
Some Answered Questions, p. 208

The soul is that which can survive death. Whatever you think that is, it is like:
a seed
a cycle, such as the blood circulation or rivers or moons or myriads of other cycles
hot coals that will restart the fire
a particular musical note which must follow another, which the ear listens for
an inhalation following exhalation
a thought passed down
a ghost
a tradition
a program, protocol
a phoenix
a lamp that is refilled instead of going out
laughter or other feelings
that which makes something what it is and not the thing itself: the strength of the steel or the mind of the soldier or the integrity of the senate

Rival said:

Question aimed at Jews, Christians, Muslims and Baha'is, asked by the one Noachide

How do our views on the soul differ? How does, for example, Islam define 'soul' and how it attaches itself to G-d etc. Does the soul have parts, for instance?

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Well, Mormons believe that when God infuses a body with the breath of life (i.e., a "spirit"), the person becomes what we would call "a living soul." So, to us, a soul is the entity you have once a spirit resides within a body. Occasionally, we use the words "spirit" and "soul" interchangeably, but we really shouldn't. We believe that the "spirit" is eternal and can exist as a cognizant entity outside of a physical body.

Human person consists of body, soul and spirit. Body is the outer layer, spirit is the most inner part of our being, soul is in between. This Biblical concept is called trichotomy or tripartite view (in contrast to dichotomy: man = body and soul).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tripartite_(theology)

In my understanding spirit is the part of us that has the potential to contact God/receive inspiration from God and express this through soul and body. With awakened spirit man becomes a living instrument of God.