I don't think that the permanence of the individual human soul is an indispensable part of religious thought.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Not all human souls but only the pious ones are divine.
To regard the soul and body as one, or to ascribe to consciousness a physiological origin, is not detracting from its divinity; it is rather conferring divinity upon the body.
At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.
Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.
Modern science tells us that the conscious self arises from a purely physical brain. We do not have immaterial souls.
Soul is the central point of spiritual discipline.
The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty.
I am not convinced that there is such a thing as a soul.
Religion has been an important part of my understanding, my inquiry into what it means to be human.
It is only to the individual that a soul is given.