If I lose my soul, do I die?

[Minimalist]

Let's say my soul somehow gets destroyed or removed. What happens to my body?

Does it die, or carry on living? If it's the latter, what changes would/could be observed?

For fellow sceptics, how do you think most believers would respond?

You won't die, but you will lose your appreciation for Otis Redding and Wilson Pickett.

Boru

Help may be on the way......

[Cod]

I got my soul disembodied a few years ago. Freak accident with the vacuum cleaner.

I can't say much has changed. If anything, there are minor improvements. Justin Bieber sounds much better now. As does most contemporary music.

Tell us more about this 'Freak accident'

[robvalue]

If I prune Rik’s answer, I think it would be that the question is malformed. Fair enough answer.

I guess everyone else on the site who believes in souls can be put down as, “Don’t know”.

[Haipule]

Sure, in times when no one yet understood that air was made of particulate matter but everyone knew you would die if you couldn’t breathe, then it was believed that the movement of the air was somehow spiritual. YHWH was granted this aspect as well, so when Genesis 1:2 says that only “the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters,” it’s talking about the wind. We supposedly say his name whenever we breathe through our mouths. Since the earliest creation myths, the gods would “breathe the breath of life” into their clay golems to animate them.
Also when the Bible was being composed, its authors commonly believed that the first breath of a child was the moment when its body became “infused with the spirit” as a living being. And of course, the flood in Genesis 6 was meant to drown everything that had “the breath of life.”

Also you must understand that concept of soul is older than Bible so Greeks were using that notion and, of course, Bible took that concept from the other religions like the part when Jesus' naked male friend appears when Jesus was arrested in Mark 14:51-2:
“A certain young man was following him, wearing nothing but a linen cloth.
They caught hold of him, but he left the linen cloth and ran off naked.”
This is directly from Greeks like Empedocles who said primordial souls became clothed “in the unfamiliar tunic of flesh”; and Plato who said that at death, souls leave their bodies and ascend to judgment naked.
So the naked guy is like Jesus' soul.

But when it comes to origins of word "soul" it comes from old religions and is actually feminine - such as psyche, pneuma, anima, alma; but as males took over in the battle of sexes, that is religion, you had the third canon of the Council of Nantes in 660 CE ruling that women have no souls, immortal or otherwise. At the end of the 16th century, clergymen declared that the Indian women of the newly discovered American continents were soulless creatures, halfway between animal and human.

That was excellent Sir! Thank you!

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The word translated "conscience" only means that we have been given the right of discernment. It's not the devil on one shoulder and an angel on the other. Which is good because I'm deaf in one ear

[robvalue]

I'll give this one last bump to see if any believers want to offer an opinion, then I'll let it drop. Thanks guys!

[Whateverist]

Q: If I lose my soul, do I die?

A: No, but you do have to pay a small fine.

[robvalue]

If anyone does post on religious forums, feel free to nick my question. I'd be interested to know what the responses would be. I don't fancy signing up for one myself.

I'll be most interested in people who think you will survive, and finding out what differences it would make.

[The Valkyrie]

Q: If I lose my soul, do I die?

A: No, but you do have to pay a small fine.

But you probably need new shoes.