“Soul,” Topics and Questions (2023)
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Overview
Soul
In scripture, the term soul is used as a synonym for spirit to describe a person in four different phases of his or her eternal existence. Soul is used to describe a person in premortal life—before birth.1 During earth life, the soul is joined with a physical body.2 At death, the soul leaves the body and goes to the spirit world to await resurrection.3 In the Resurrection, the body and soul are inseparably connected, which is called “the redemption of the soul.”4