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

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Notes

1. See Abraham 3:23.

2. See Abraham 5:7.

3. See Alma 40:11–14.

4. See Alma 40:23; Doctrine and Covenants 88:15–16.