The soul is the nonmaterial part of the human being in which resides our nonmaterial attributes like our mind, will, emotions, consciousness, and conscience.
If someone comes with materialist presuppositions how do they make sense of something like these nonmaterial attributes which are obviously there? We see the conscience of people at work everyday but we can't see, hear, taste, or touch it. Is it just "created out of nothing"? Can anything be created ex nihilo?