Not sure...I think life is at conception...but as for a soul...I don't know at what point a baby would get a soul. I guess if I had to give an answer I would guess at conception as well.
But Futuremum I guess (I've said guess a lot here hey) that you would be right. Having a soul would make one an eternal being, so I don't think that a baby lost before birth would cease to exist, if it had a soul.
interesting... I've wondered this also, some people have suggested its when the heart starts beating, some say the moment of conception.
I think conception makes the most sense to me
I definitely believe that it happens super early on though, way before birth!
I think we get our souls when we start to live at conception The physical body lives for a while because it's temporary housing, but the soul is eternal.
I think that your baby's soul is there for that baby at conception but that the soul will enter the body when the heart starts to beat.
(before that I guess its just cruising around checking out the scenery)
This is probably going to sound really silly, but I recall reading once of a Chinese story that says everyone has a soul before they are born and for every soul there is a match, made in that time before birth and someone you will find on earth. I guess the idea that your spiritual 'being' is somehow there, just waiting for you to be created is something I find beautiful and haunting.
I think conception, maybe earlier (similar to Jennifer13's Chinese story...)
Even though we thought our family had finished with 3 children, for about 12 months before I conceived #4 I was dreaming of babies...specifically baby girls... I continued to dream of her all through my pregnancy.
I think she chose to join us at this time, I'm certain that she was 'with us' from the moment of conception & possibly earlier.
We are electrical beings. Our hearts beat due to electrical impulses. Our thoughts travel through nerves in our brains as electrical energy. So, if we as humans can create systems in which information (visual/sound etc) can be transferred... even remotely now we have digital technology... then why is it so hard for many people to believe that our souls endure after death? After our body dies why is it so hard to imagine our soul energy being "uploaded" into another dimension? If we can send a video around the world via our mobile phones and satelites then why not a more intelligent entity (God) capture our soul energy when we die? It's not that big a leap for me to make....
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The physical body lives for a while because it's temporary housing, but the soul is eternal.
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