Exactly when is the SOUL created?

[kids in america_]

well that goes back to my other point that the bible uses the two terms in a variety of different ways therefore the immediate context determines how the word is being used. You can say animals have a 'spirit' and by that mean they have 'a life force' and there's no problem. but to say the animals have a 'spirit' and man has a 'spirit' (made in the image of God), and equate the two as being the same thing, then that's not accurate.

I never said that. The only difference between man and animals is that man is mentally superior to them; as you said man was/is being created in the image of ‘god’. And I agree with that analysis.

 

[moongodthoth]

Wikipedia: -

"A soul, in certain spiritual, philosophical, and psychological traditions, is the incorporeal essence of a person or living thing.[1] Many philosophical and spiritual systems teach that humans are souls; some attribute souls to all living things and even to inanimate objects (such as rivers); this belief is commonly called animism.[2] The soul is often believed to exit the body and live on after a person’s death, and some religions posit that God creates souls. The soul has often been deemed integral or essential to consciousness and personality, and soul sometimes functions as a synonym for spirit, mind or self,[3] although the soul is said to function in a distinct enough way from both the spirit and the psyche that the terms should not be treated interchangeably."

When exactly is your soul created (in the womb...at birth..when you learn to talk?)..and if your soul is your soul, then who are you? (that owns the soul)

Personally I think the souls of individuals have been in existence for a much longer time than we can comprehend.

I believe that when we incarnate into physical forms, we did so by our own free will. Therefore, we chose to be here at this particular moment. Problem is, as soon as we are incarnated we forget about our true selves and are only left with vague intuitions about our true existence.

To me enlightenment would be coming to a realization of your divine infinite nature. This life is just a job that you chose to take on, sadly most people fail to accomplish what they set off to do, due to the lack of realization.

The more talented a person is the older their soul is, because as the soul recycles through this physical existence it carries with it fragments of knowledge learned in it's previous incarnation.

This cycle repeats until you have achieved your soul purpose whatever that may be.

Of course there's no proof of this, but it's just a personal intuitive belief. It's not exactly and original belief either.