When we think of soul, there are three main ways to think of it.

First, is a vague characteristic a person has or doesn't have.

“He’s got soul.”

Second, is an immaterial entity that is contained within them.

“I love you down to my very soul.”

Third, is the belief it doesn’t exist at all. We are completely physical and any other sense of who we are comes from electrical impulses in our brain circuitry and chemical reactions.

“It’s just how we are wired.”

Dallas Willard offers a fourth view. Soul is beyond our body. It contains the body, but it is much bigger than that. Your soul is the organizing force that holds together heart, the mind’s thoughts and feelings, the body, and our relationships. The soul is the CEO of who we are.

According to Willard, our soul is given to us by God at conception and through it creates and organizes our DNA and all the life that follows.

This may all seem strange, but if our souls are real and organizing our lives together, then we are missing out on key knowledge of our existence, as this is not a standard course of study in high school, university, or even churches nowadays. Let's consider the soul…

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