Is Your Soul Your Own?

Is your soul your own? It really all goes back to our core assumptions. If we are metaphysical and ethical altruists, as were the historical Hebrews and early Christians, then the idea of accepting fundamental non-ownership of our things, our bodies, our minds, our souls, even our very lives, then Job's eloquent lament holds true. If one is a committed metaphysical and ethical egoist, then a strong, permanent self that owes much to the Higher Power while that individualistic Higher Power confers upon each disciple much freedom, power and ownership to be all that he can be, then ownership has worth, divine backing and meaningful existence. It really is both/and more than either/or.