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Starwynd
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How are souls created? Do they exist before conception or is a soul created upon conception?
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Ghosty
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Without a body, there is no soul. Souls are made to make bodies alive, so they are created at conception. The pre-existence of souls is both philosophically and theologically (in the Catholic Faith) unacceptable.
The human soul lives after the body dies, but it’s still a “body animating thing”, and is incomplete until the Resurrection, when it can perform all of its functions again.
Peace and God bless!
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drafdog
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No one knows how souls are created. Don’t even bother asking. The question is what are you doing with your own?
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teachccd
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There is no official Church teaching as to exactly when the soul is created. We would assume that since the Church does teach that we are a body/soul unity that the soul is created by God at conception…teachccd
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teachccd
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365 The unity of soul and body is so profound that one has to consider the soul to be the “form” of the body:234 i.e., it is because of its spiritual soul that the body made of matter becomes a living, human body; spirit and matter, in man, are not two natures united, but rather their union forms a single nature.
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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.235
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church…
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penWindow(‘cr/366.htm’) 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.235From the Catechism of the Catholic Church…
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