Peacemaker:

You are full of interesting views and angles to every philosophical question! Its sooo coool!!! ( for want of a better way of putting it).

The belief in a SOUL is a dualist concept that claims that there are non-physical phenomena that exists within our mental capacity. So it claims that the MIND and the BRAIN are entirely separate entities. In turn this can be interpreted as a SOUL. Its like saying that the body is an automaton and the mind is a ghost in the machine that animates it.

Some people claim that the SOUL is our essense and it actually precedes our existence. Hence why we would be born with innate ideas?

For me the soul comes into existence as we grow into ourselves.