According to the Bible, Is the Soul Created or Eternal?
According to the description in the Bible, the soul is not defined; therefore, its existence does not depend on the world or on the laws that exist in Heaven.
God created Heaven, that is, He defined the laws of the existence of the world, and based on these laws the material world appeared. The soul is not listed among the created things.
At the beginning of creation, the world exists unconsciously; no one perceives it. No one is conscious of the laws that appear in the world, and no one perceives the perceivable world either.
The Spirit of God hovers over the Waters, that is, it perceives neither the laws created by God nor the appearing material world. The Spirit of God exists, but it is not aware of the existence of the world, nor does its existence depend on the existence of the world.
Time belongs to the appearance of the material world. It appears as the speed of its perception; therefore, even within the material world and its laws, time appears according to deeper relationships. Since the soul exists independently of the existence of the material world, its existence is therefore also independent of time.
Time can only be interpreted according to the perception of the material world; therefore, for the soul, time does not exist until it becomes capable of perceiving the material world. Time becomes significant for the soul from the perspective of perceiving and interpreting the material world, but not from the perspective of the existence of the soul.
The soul is a timeless existent. According to the text, its existence is connected only to the existence of God — “the Spirit of God.” No other relationship appears in connection with its existence.