John Hume s Bundle View Of The Soul - 1241 Words

I grew up with a Catholic family and went to church every Sunday and I was taught everyone had a soul and it was the basis for every human being. The soul is what makes someone a person and it’s what separates us from non-living beings. As I grew up, I started to be less religious and started believing in science and factual based knowledge yet I still always believed in the soul. When you grow up your whole life being told a certain thing it’s hard to shake the idea of it not being true. It wasn’t until we started to talk about the different views of the self that I started to think maybe the soul isn’t what makes a person a person. It can’t be seen, it can’t be touched and we can’t tell if anyone even has a soul. There is no evidence†¦show more content†¦For one, that God created the Earth and all living things on Earth. I believe in facts and evidence and when I started to learn about the big bang theory, I questioned my Ca tholic upbringing. One thing I never really questioned or thought about being false was the soul topic. I did question if there was a heaven for our souls to travel to when we died but I never thought for once that the soul didn’t exist and that it wasn’t what made me a person. I thought my soul was my personality and my mind and it was what made me who I am. When we started to go over the different views of what the self was, for the first time I started to think that maybe I have been wrong all along and the soul isn’t what makes me or anyone else a person. For the first time I started to see flaws in the soul view. For one, you can’t see a soul, you can’t touch it, and you can’t feel, taste or smell it. A soul isn’t detected with the basic senses so how do we even know it’s there? I always answered this with my belief in the soul. People can’t do any of those things with God and they still believe in Him so just becau se there’s no way of knowing if the soul exists it doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist. Then, however, we started talking about what if everyone’s soul is changing and every day you have a new soul. I actually never thought of this myself and I couldn’t come up with any reasonable response. At this point I started to wonder if my soul is changing every second then what makes me who I