"Where do new human souls come from?"

There are two Biblically based and reasonable views on how the new human soul comes into existence. created and one Non Biblical. (1) Traducianism is the theory that a soul is generated by the physical parents along with the body. Bible Support for Traducianism is as follows: (A) In (Genesis 2:7), God breathed the breath of life into Adam, causing Adam to become a “living soul.” Scripture nowhere records God performing this action again. (B) Adam had a son in his own likeness (Genesis 5:3). Adam’s descendants seem to be “living souls” without God breathing into them. (C) Genesis 2:2-3 seems to indicate that God ceased His creative work. (D) Adam's sin affects all men – both physically and spiritually – this makes sense if the body and soul both come from the parents. The weakness of Traducianism is that it is unclear how an immaterial soul can be generated through an entirely physical process. Traducianism can only be true if the body and soul are inseparably connected which they are. You are Adams offspring and in his image. God made Adam’s body and he became a living Soul as soon as the breath of life entered into it. (Gen. 2:7)

(2) Creationism is the view that God creates a new soul when a human being is conceived. Creationism was held by many early church fathers and also has Scriptural support. First, Scripture SHOWS A DIFFERENCE IN the origin of the soul from the origin of the body (Ecclesiastes 12:7; Isaiah 42:5; Zechariah 12:1; Hebrews 12:9). Second, if God creates each individual soul at the moment it is needed, the separation of soul and body is held firm. The weakness of Creationism is that it has God continually creating new human souls, while Genesis 2:2-3 tells us that God ceased creating on the 6^th day of creation. Also, since the entire human existence, body, soul, and spirit, are infected by sin – if God creates a new soul for every new baby being, how is that soul then infected with sin?

(3) The third view, that has no Biblical support, is the concept that God created all human souls at the same time and “attaches” a soul to a human being at the moment of conception. This view holds that there is sort of a “warehouse of souls” in Heaven where God stores souls that await a human body to be attached to.( that
“s Mormonism) Again, this view has no Biblical support and is usually held by those of a “new age” or reincarnation mindset.

Whether the Traducianist view or the Creationist view is correct, both agree that the soul does not exist prior to conception. This seems to be the clear teaching of the Bible. The human soul does not exist prior to a human being conceived. Whether God creates a new human soul at the moment of conception, or whether God designed the human reproductive process to also reproduce a soul; God is ultimately responsible for the creation of each and every soul. (Eze.18:4

We know that God ceased His creation activity on the sixth day, and we also know that newborn babies have souls so the logical conclusion is that human souls are born and not created.

Researched and compiled by

Rev. George Pryor M. Th.

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