A:There was an ancient Greek belief that each person has a spirit and a soul. This was an idea that early Christians toyed around with, but eventually the consensus was that we have only one, which is usually called the soul.
Another Answer:
The Word translated 'soul' comes from the Hebrew 'nephesh' and simply means living thing, the breath of life that is in all man and animals.
Man does have an essence in him which empowers our brain. For lack of a specific term, some call this the human spirit spoken of in Job.
The current ideas of an 'immortal soul' comes from Socrates when in Egypt and fully developed by Aristotle. It is not Scriptural as The Bible says that God can destroy both the spirit and the soul in the 2nd death after the Judgement Process.
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