Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site ames.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!ames!barry From: barry@ames.UUCP (Kenn Barry) Newsgroups: net.religion Subject: Where do souls come from? Message-ID: <675@ames.UUCP> Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 17:28:53 EST Article-I.D.: ames.675 Posted: Mon Dec 3 17:28:53 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 5-Dec-84 00:52:40 EST Distribution: net Organization: NASA-Ames Research Center, Mtn. View, CA Lines: 27 [] I may be breaking a tradition by posting something to net.religion that is unlikely to offend anyone, but I have a question for everyone. Many religions (though not all) have beliefs about what happens to our souls after death, but I've heard far less about where the various religions think souls come from. I would be curious to hear from peoples of all faiths, a description of what their religion believes about this. To start things off, I will summarize the five answers to this question I am familiar with. I would ask anyone responding to please indicate whether their response states a personal belief or the official position of some religious body (or both). If official, please state what religion or sect's beliefs you are describing. 1) Souls are created at (about) the time the body is created, and have no prior existance. 2) Souls are eternal in both directions. 3) Souls are part of an all-encompassing oversoul before incarnation. 4) There is no such thing as a soul. 5) No official position. - I am only an egg - Kenn Barry NASA-Ames Research Center Moffett Field, CA ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- USENET: {dual,hao,menlo70,hplabs}!ames!barry SOURCE: ST7891