--Plato--
"There is no doctrine on which Plato more frequently or more strenuously insists than this,--that soul is not only superior to body, but prior to it in order of time, and that not merely as it exists in the being of God, but in every order of existence. The soul of the world existed first, and then it was clothed with a material body. The souls which animate the sun, moon, and stars, existed before the bodies which they inhabit. The pre-existence of human souls is one of the arguments on which he relies to prove their immortality."Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia, art. Platonism.
--GOD--
And the LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul....The soul that sinneth, it shall die. Genesis 2:7/Ezekiel 18:20
