Man IS a living soul. He does not HAVE a soul. As the Bible says, "the soul that sins shall die".

The spirit that is put in man returns back to the creator at death. If anything, that is part of God's "soul".

When the intelligent species of the sea die in the end of days, it is said that "every living soul in the sea dies". There are at least 240 "dead zones" in the sea where nothing can live. That number is growing daily.

Man does not have a soul any more than the heart contains the evil propensities. The heart closely corresponds to the living soul. Many of these terms are interchangable in the Bible to mean the same thing. "It is not what goes into a man that defiles him, but what comes out of him". What proceeds from his "heart" or "soul" is what defiles man. Its all about symbology.