Topic > What is a soul? - 1225

The soul has always been thought of as that part of us that makes a human being, a human being. We believe that if we are good we will go to heaven and if we are bad we will go to hell, at least, that's the Christian religion I grew up with. But I had always wondered if that was the case and there was more to it than that. I was right, I asked BuddhaSasana about it and an article was written titled “Is there an eternal soul?”. The article goes on to explain that apparently we humans do not have a soul and are not born with one and no God has ever created one. What we call our personality and ourselves is technically our soul. A very interesting metaphor used in this article was