Souls, like the afterlife evolved from dreams. In dreams, people would travel and visit with dead people. They believed part of that dead person was still alive, ie. spirit or soul. They would construct statues of dead people so their soul could occupy them. This lead to Hermes etc. In Hebrew, soul is the same word for breath. Your breath was considered your soul. When you gave up the spirit you gasped ypur last breath. The Jews did not consider the fetus to possess a soul until it started to breath. That is where souls came from.
I have stated the case that souls were made up by people because they did not understand the nature of dreams and breathing.
I have stated the case that souls were made up by people because they did not understand the nature of dreams and breathing.
"On Earth as it is in Heaven, the Cosmic Roots of the Bible" available on the Amazon.
