What I mean is; if you believe in the soul, then you probable (correct me if I'm wrong, I may well be), then you believe that only God can grant a sould to a being. As a spul, by the christian definition, is the supernatural life, spirit of the body. The soul allows us to reason, to learn, etc. SOmething that machines cannot do. Even with trillions of lines of code, as you said, they can immitate life very well, but it will always be immitation. Even biologically. So, as you said, we could never really grant a soul.

That is, what I believe, anyway.