text: what's the mechanism/ agent/ glue that holds the "soul" in a living human "body"? after all, we get to carry around our individual "souls" with us, don't we?   then what keeps the soul in its physical vessel (i.e. the body) while an individual human being is alive?   is the so-called “holy spirit” the glue that holds a soul in a body?   i am simply asking for suggestions on possible underlying mechanism(s) that could feasibly oversee/mediate such a body/soul interaction, and not if such a conjecture is actually plausible. good question. it shows the humor of this type of religious dogma. mankind is the soul himself. god breathed life into adam and he became a living soul.  he was not given a soul. the bible never says that a soul (or life) is immortal.  it talks about souls dying, hungering etc, but never says a soul is immortal.