Another one of those mysteries, like old Solomon ruminated on in =
Ecclesiastes 11
"5 As you do not know the path of the wind,=20
or how the body is formed [1] in a mother's womb,=20
so you cannot understand the work of God,=20
the Maker of all things.=20
Footnotes 11:5 Or know how life (or the spirit ) / enters the body being =
formed".=20
Old Jeremiah was told:
"4 The word of the Lord came to me, saying,=20
5 "Before I formed you in the womb I knew [1] you,=20
before you were born I set you apart;=20
I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.
Footnotes: 1:5 Or chose"
So this seems to imply soul infusion occurs pre-birth.
Of course, as time is a created thing, like a table, maybe the "knowing" =
is in the eternal now. =20
The brain as the seat of the soul is a presumption alright.
We are flushing these fetuses out right up to birth, it seems.
As I remember my embryology, the ovum was pretty inactive until the =
spermatozoa hit it, then things really started cooking.
I had never heard of the zygote splitting into two zygotes, then =
re-merging.
Conjoined viable twins certainly are two souls.
Jay
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