Daffy posted:GBRK, how do you know if we have souls/spirits, there is no scientific evidence to prove it, this is just the views of the jewish faith some other faiths. Nobody has ever seen a soul/spirit that I know of.
Aside from answering your question from a Biblical/Christian source based upon faith and Religion I will but submit a few other thoughts although I would just as gladly cite the scripture references that indicate an inner spirit/soul apart from the fleshly container (the body).
Science, or scientific test, has attempted to locate and measure a soul with some test done and the following sites (URL's) can take you to information about those including Snopes:
http://www.snopes.com/religion/soulweight.asp
http://www.livescience.com/323...-the-soul-weigh.html
https://www.historicmysteries....21-gram-soul-theory/
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There was also a Psychology today article regarding the inner soul/spirit.
https://www.psychologytoday.co...st-evidence-says-yes
http://thespiritscience.net/20...the-afterlife-exist/
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As for myself, and I believe many others, I just feel, sense, believe, there is more within than just flesh, bone, blood, and physical things that keep the body going. I believe that each person has the ability to sense that there is something alive inside of their physical body and they are special apart from being just the physical elements of life. Call it Faith in this because as you have mentioned there is no dogmatic way to verify it, not for even science regardless of the articles mentioned because science, by it's very nature, deals with the physical and is not equipped to deal with the Spiritual or even conceptual things.
I fully believe that there are things beyond human understanding and conception and that our minds are limited so as there is much that we cannot comprehend or understand. I do though believe in a soul/spirit that is inside the human body and being a Christian I fully believe that spirit/soul is and was created by and from God. I also believe the nature of the inner soul/spirit apart from the fleshly body, is eternal in nature in that unlike the fleshly body, the physical, it does not decay, deteriorate or pass away and survives after death and passes from the physical world/realm into the Spiritual. I also believe that the Spiritual realm is far more expansive and greater than the physical realm and mankind/humans cannot even comprehend and understand the physical limits of our own universe.
You expressed skepticism in a inner soul/spirit or afterlife (something after this physical life we experience) and rightfully so say you can't prove it by science or other means but then we, being human, take many things on faith alone without thinking about it. What about the ends of our physical universe? Is there an end? Was there a beginning? People cite the "Big Bang" but just think about it (if you adhere to the Big Bang theory) there has to have existed something that could have got together and created such a massive release of energy. Defining a beginning of the universe or even an end is all a matter of faith just like trying to define or describe the physical limits or end of the Universe. Mankind doesn't really even fully understand our own planet and it's inner core as we've never really been there or been able to sample it so we theorize just like with many other things.
Is it so abnormal or incomprehensible to believe or have faith that within each human is a living spirit/soul that continues on past our physical, fleshly, existence? AS a Christian I would say that our fleshly bodies is the container for our inner spirit/souls that was provided for in God's masterplan. I say on faith because there is so much that I cannot define, understand, comprehend, or explain. There is and always will be reason for doubts or skepticism but much comes from our own inability to comprehend that which is not able to be understood or is just beyond our own understanding.