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> You use an abrahamic notion of human being defined as a soulless meatbag. I use the Christian notion of a human being defined as a human body and a human sou
by User23 4y ago
> You use an abrahamic notion of human being defined as a soulless meatbag.
I use the Christian notion of a human being defined as a human body and a human soul unified in one creature. I believe both human body and soul are created at the same time, namely conception. While most Muslims agree with that assessment, most Jews do not[1]. Therefore it's not an Abrahamic notion.
In fact, the very concept of a soul, or anima in Latin, is that which animates a body. By definition, every animate creature has a soul because it is the name for the animating principle. And so death then is the transition from being a living animated body with a soul to being an inanimate dead body without a soul.
[1] The Talmud says that the soul enters the body with the first breath.