[stfassisi]

According to the Bible, God gave man his breath of life on the last day of the Creation. And man has been passing it on to the offspring ever since (see traducianism). This view solves the problem of further creation after God ended "all his [creative] work," as well as avoids the need to presuppose the problematic pre-existence of the souls.

I agree.

Did the Greeks simplify this?(I think)

[kosta50]

Did the Greeks simplify this?(I think)

Traduscianism was the belief of the Church before Blessed Augustine introduced creationism, i.e. belief that God creates a new soul at the moment of conception. The East simply retained the original belief. There is no doctrinal strife as regards this subject in the Church; both traditions are accepted, with creationism predominating in the west and traducianism in the East.

However, trasucianism inadvertently leads us to realize that we are all brothers, since the life we have is the same life God gave to Adam, and through Adam to all of humanity. Creationism leads us to look at each person as life unto itself.