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MM_azevedo
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A human is, since the moment of it’s conception, made of a soul and a body. Where’s the soul before the moment of conception?
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Ghosty1981
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It is created with the body. The soul is made for the body and the body for the soul. There is no human person without both of them, and as long as the body is alive the soul is present.
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thistle
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CCC 366 The Church teaches that every spiritual soul is created immediately by God - it is not “produced” by the parents - and also that it is immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death, and it will be reunited with the body at the final Resurrection.
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Robert_Sock
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The soul comes directly from God when He breathed into the nostrils of man (Genesis 2:7). There are many Jews who believe that our soul longs to be reunited with God by cleaving to Him. Many Catholics claim that the body and soul are one and that they cannot be separated, but the CCC is clear that when we die, our soul, and not our body, will enter Heaven and remain there until the Resurrection!
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Gorgias
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Notice, too, that “immediately” might not mean what you think it means, here. The Catechism clarifies the term “immediately” by describing that the soul “is not produced by the parents” – that is to say, although God creates the person’s body through the mediation of the procreative activity of the person’s parents, the creation of the soul is immediate (i.e., it is not mediated by anything or anyone other than God).CCC 366 The Church teaches that every spiritual soul is created immediately by God - it is not “produced” by the parents - and also that it is immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death, and it will be reunited with the body at the final Resurrection.
Moreover, just as we wouldn’t ask “where is the person’s body before conception?”, we likewise wouldn’t ask “where is the person’s soul before conception?”. (We might ask, “where is the material that goes to make up the body, prior to conception?”… but souls aren’t made of material, so there’s no “pre-existing matter” just waiting around to be turned into a soul…)
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