If the soul enters at conception, then where does it reside?

I was thinking brain or heart, but at conception you just have the one cell formed from the egg and the sperm.

Well. I am not a believer in souls. But if I had to pick, I’d probably say it’s in the nucleus, weaving through histone cores and DNA strands.

That way, if it enters at conception, it doesn’t have to go anywhere. Just get copied and copied and copied and copied and copied and copied half a trillion times.

And each twin can have a different soul as a result of epigenetic influences.

It’s a shame J.K. Rowling didn’t go into more depth about the formation of horcruxes. More information on that subject would be extremely helpful in answering this question.

Though from what we know from Voldemort’s alleged experience, you can encode a soul’s pattern in a physical object, presumably in its shape, volume, mass, etc. So perhaps a soul upon inception is encoded in the physical structure of the blastula’s network of lipid membranes, nucleotides, etc.

GQ, and part of the reason why I have difficulty believing in the concept of a soul.

Another question to add to the list, when one twin absorbs the other in utero, does the resulting baby have two souls?

The soul resides in the skin. The more soul you have, the darker your skin. That’s why albinos should be rounded up and killed. Their soul-less bodies have magical powers, what with being able to walk and talk without souls. The Africans have it figured out.

A person is a soul, they don’t have one. Assuming that one believes in a soul from a biblical perspective, the bible says that God breathed into man the breath of life, and he BECAME a living soul, he wasn’t given one. The soul ceases to exist at death.

Your questions highlight the silliness of the concept of an immortal soul, as believed by many.

Whether the Bible said “Man became a living soul” or not was allegedly written down thousands of years ago so I prefer to go with my belief that everyone has a soul and it cannot be defined , seen or smelled but that sucker is in us somewhere. I think the passage meant, “and Man became a living being.” Actually, I don’t care whether we have one or not. But if we do, nothing can remove or disturb it. It could refer to the being that floats above us when we die then tells the doctors what they were saying and franctically doing when we died and what music they were playing when operating.

@Aster – I agree that the passage means man became a living being, and that is exactly the point. A living being is a living soul- same thing. You are entitled to your beliefs, and I respect that, but my point is that if you base your belief on the bible, there is no justification for believing in an immortal soul. Ecclesiastes 9:5 says “The soul that sins shall die.” The belief in an immortal soul comes from somewhere other than the bible, and if that is the basis of your belief, then great.

I agree there is no justification for believing in an immortal soul or being but I do . I have had dead relatives contact me, once with a witness experiencing it at the same time so I cannot deny what I believe. I want to say “what I know to be true” but I’ll just say belief to cut down on the flamers. lol

Wow! I have a mental picture of your car mounting the pavement and careering through a park scattering people in all directions, crashing through a fence and somehow drawing up calmly at the library as planned.

Do you want a serious answer to this? There are many theories about the soul, some relate to different religions and some relate to secular philosophies. I do have one theory that I agree with more than the others.Too bad you didn’t ask this in general.

@Paradox25 Don’t be deterred because this is in social. Give us your theory.

@Adirondackwannabe Perhaps tomorrow. I’m getting ready for bed since I’m working the weekend shift and I pulled 14 hours 2day and the same 2morrow. I’ll post it either tomorrow or Sunday night but it will be a detailed response.