The soul is heart of human nature questions

 

The soul is a living substance, endowed by free will that is created by God in His image. It is the source of the body's power of life, growth and perception, and the soul's purpose is to turn toward God and be like Him. Sin is the refusal to do so. One misconception about the soul is that the soul is evil; the Orthodox Church teaches that God created Man in His Image, thus the soul is inherently good, but man through his free will chooses to reject God, and the soul becomes darkened. Orthodox Christians are concerned mainly with the cure of the soul. Metropolitan Nafpaktos Hierotheos writes, "The cure of the whole person, which is the essential aim of Orthodox spirituality is affected by the sacraments of the Church and by the practice of the ascetic life."