soul

• Many religious believers think that all humans have a soul. The soul is the non- physical, spiritual part of humans that lives on after the death
• According to Christianity and Judaism, only human beings have immortal souls,
• humanists are materialists; they believe that we are nothing more than matter. There is no spiritual or supernatural part of life.
• Christians believe all humans have a soul.
• Christians think It is the soul that will go onto the afterlife, and will live on in either Heaven, Hell or Purgatory.
• Most Christians are dualists. They believe we are made from two distinctive parts: body and soul.
• Other Christians are non-dualists. They say that the body and soul are one and cannot be separated. After death, the soul is temporarily apart from the body, but they will be reunited on judgement day and rise to Heaven together.
• Jewish belief in a soul is founded on the passage in the Torah,
• "The Lord God formed man out of dust from the ground" (Genesis 2:7)
• This suggests that human beings were created by God using earthly materials. This implies that there must be something else about us which makes us different from animals - our souls.
• In Judaism, it is believed that when someone dies their soul goes back to God who gave them life. The soul then waits until the resurrection at the end of time. At this point, the soul will be reattached to its body and people will be judged according to how well they lived their lives.