The Soul is Our Identity

The soul is the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being.  Our soul coexists with our body but is immortal. According to the Same Body-Same Soul Principle, it states that the soul is always associated with the same body, during the earthly existence of that body. Once the body dies off, the soul goes into the afterlife. The soul is still living after the body has died. Our soul grows with the body and mind. When we are young our bodies and mind are weak. As we get older, the mind gets stronger and wiser. The body is weakening with age, so this means the mind will decline as well. The mind is altered with age and begins to decay once the body is decaying as well. The soul is what holds our personal identity to ourselves not our physical body. The soul is like a stockroom for our memories. The soul collects experiences and information from the outside world and stores it with the mind.

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  1. SnowdenFebruary 10, 2019 at 6:17 PM

    I agree with the main premise of your argument that the soul is immortal and is with us throughout all of our life here on earth. However, there is little else to your argument about the soul being immortal as well as our identity other than a few times you simply state that this is so. While I personally agree with your conclusions, the lack of reasons and reasoning found in this post I feel would do very little to sway the minds of anybody even on the fence of believing that a soul is immortal or our identity. Maybe next time you go to make an argument about a topic such as this, try to make it more based on thought out reasons rather than unsupported convictions.

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