Do you think kids who die before the age of 5 years old ever really had a soul in the first place?

[Anonymous]

Yes they had a soul

The had no soul

[slatyb]

No one has a soul. Souls aren't real. Whatever people call a soul is an emergent phenomenon of our brains. We know this because brain damage can change someone's personalities.

[strateguy632]

hmm interesting but too indirect. without brain damage people change personality in a year over time, or due to circumstances and traumas so that does not indicate that the soul "that cannot change changed". only by assuming soul means personality but personality does change so not the real you nor the soul. i specify a lobotomy does not cut out the soul.

[slatyb]

@strateguy632 there's no evidence that souls exist. Does a 6-weej fetus have a soul? The idea of souls falls apart when we take a close look at fetal development.

[Daniela1982]

If they die before the age of accountability they go straight to Heaven. There they will be raised by whomever until they are as big as all others there, as I don't think there will be babies in Heaven. Can you imagine being a baby forever?

[LazerBean]

Of course. I don't see how anyone who has ever spent much time with a baby could think otherwise.

[sean1234]

lol, the Bible says your body IS your soul. There is no ghost spirit that leaves the body, that is just some ridiculous catholic tradition.

[strateguy632]

bible? said opposite "Matthew 10:28 - And fear not them which kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul" body is soul?

[sean1234]

Sounds confusing, but essentially yes. We must not understand the bible from man's point of view, but from God's. If one was dead while the other alive then the bible wouldn't say the dead know nothing, but the dead shall rise, then the living...

Ecclesiastes 9:5

For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

1 Thessalonians 4:16-17

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

What does 16-17 mean to you?

[rigmarole]

If you believe souls and the religions that surround them, then all you need to do is read the religious books associated with them. It clearly states in the Bible for example that you have a soul right from the point of conception.

[strateguy632]

they had a soul... before age five... from the moment they started life. even before a literal "breath" when they are born.

[FreyaRed]

No one has a soul, no matter how old.

[strateguy632]

i respect your faith in that but how can you be certain?

[Jersey2]

@strateguy632 The internet told her

[HateyouxD]

I think under 2 they dont

[ChicoFromThe305]

Yes they do

[jahaims]

Souls don't exist