On the Soul
May 26, 2022
3 minutes
By Elena Tafone, EDITOR
Humans have long theorized that we are more than the purely physical. Ancient Indian philosophers called our spiritual aspect atman. The Greeks called it psyche; the Romans, anima. But they’re just different words for what we would refer to as the soul.
The Bible explicitly references souls as our spiritual selves. In the First Epistle of Peter, Jesus is called the overseer of our souls. When the creation of man is described in Genesis, the text says
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