The Soul

Question 1

What is dualism?

Answer 1

The belief that we are made of 2 separate parts; body and soul.

Question 2

What is materialism?

Answer 2

The belief that we a merely physical bodies.

Question 3

What are Christian beliefs about the soul? (5)

Answer 3

• It is the inner part of our being that makes us unique to other life forms
• It gives us our personality and sense of aliveness
• “before I formed you in the womb, I knew you”
• Some are dualists. They believe the soul is eternal and will live on after the death of our physical body.
• The soul is God given

Question 4

What are Muslim beliefs about the soul? (4)

Answer 4

• God made Adam from ‘ earth’ showing the physical aspect of humans.
• We have a non-physical aspect. God ‘breathed’ a soul into humans to create them.
• Soul is an invisible part of a human that is ‘pure’ from birth.
  -The Hadith says ensoulment happens 120 days after conception.

Question 5

What are humanist beliefs about the soul? (4)

Answer 5

• They are materialists
• They believe in the scientific description of human life
• They do not believe in spiritual existence
• We are physical beings who decompose when we die. No eternal part of us lives on.