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Gabriel:
I was thinking about Ray's paper An Encouraging Thought About Death, and how science can be a useful aid in studying scripture and also disproving traditions of men so it came to me if we really go "somewhere else" when we die why is it that when we suffer brain damage or something else that can cause us to lose our memory well...why do we lose our memory??? or how about nerve damage? So if we really had an "immortal soul" like most of the church teaches we should be able to keep our thoughts and sensations regardless! Just a thought  :)

Gabriel

daywalker:

--- Quote from: Gabriel on September 15, 2010, 05:38:26 PM ---I was thinking about Ray's paper An Encouraging Thought About Death, and how science can be a useful aid in studying scripture and also disproving traditions of men so it came to me if we really go "somewhere else" when we die why is it that when we suffer brain damage or something else that can cause us to lose our memory well...why do we lose our memory??? or how about nerve damage? So if we really had an "immortal soul" like most of the church teaches we should be able to keep our thoughts and sensations regardless! Just a thought  :)

Gabriel

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Good thought.

What Christians, pagans, and all those under organized religion fail to understand is that we don't "have" souls, we ourselves ARE "living souls". Humans and animals are living souls who are given life through the Spirit ["Breath"] of God. People mistakenly use "soul" and "spirit" interchangeably. But they are nothing alike.

I've been trying to help my mom understand this for over a year now. She's really the only person that I talk to about this stuff. I finally was able to free her of the Rapture theory a few months ago, and she now understands what those verses actually mean, so at least we're getting somewhere.  ;D

Daywalker  8)

Kat:

Hi Gabriel,


--- Quote ---why is it that when we suffer brain damage or something else that can cause us to lose our memory well...why do we lose our memory??? or how about nerve damage?
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When someone suffers brain damage the brain which is a physical organ becomes impaired and does not function proper. So if the part of the brain that is used for our memory is damaged, then that part no longer does what it was designed to do... right? Now if a person has a damaged arm, leg or eye, then that body part will no longer work properly either... right? So these things that happen to the physical body it will effect our physical life now.

When everyone is resurrected back to life at the resurrection of the dead, it is my belief that Christ will heal the physical ailments of people and restore or correct their physical body. If you think about it this was a big part of His earthly ministery, healing and certainly He will not change. So I think when He heals a person's damaged brain and it is made right He will also restore their memory. Just like a person that has his arm, leg or eye restored would then be able to use it too. I really don't see how it has anything to do with an immortal soul.

This is just what I think and hope that it is of some help.

mercy, peace and love
Kat

Gabriel:
We are living souls. I don't believe in an immortal soul but through my post I was showing that we don't keep our thoughts and sensations after death and brain and nerve damage in life can prove this, so we aren't alive in some other place when we die like most of the church teaches. I told this to a friend once and she said well "I never thought of it that way before."  :)

God be with you all,

Gabriel

Kat:

Yes that is a good point and I agree.

mercy, peace and love
Kat

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