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
Hi Gabriel,
Your above Post displays a logical and thinking analysis and displays good reasoning. It certainly helps me to appreciate that Our Conscious Thoughts don't exist beyond This Life. All of Us require a Resurrection from the Dead. Your Post further supports Ecclesiastes. 9:5,10; Psalms. 146:3,4; Psalm. 104:29,30; Ecclesiastes. 3:19,20. Paraphrase from these passages: " Dead are conscious of nothing." Spirit goes out, thoughts do perish." " Mankind and Beast return to the Dust." etc, etc. Sorry, I don't have E sword, my Wife was supposed to retrieve it from wherever it disappeared.
But, Here's the thing Gabriel, some people like You and I and Others at BT desire facts, have reasoning skills, want to know the truth, take the time to investigate and desire to know more. God is the CAUSE of this All in us desiring these Truths and hungering for more. How often do We reason with people using clear irrefutable facts and they can't see it and don't want it. Some have said it's a miracle that anyone finds out about these truths that We learn here and Some have said it's even amazing that they don't see it. In my experiences, believing in "Free Will" and "The Immortality of Some Conscious Thought that lives On" seem to be tied for first place among those that are Spiritually deceived. Indeed, it's a Strong Idol of the Heart. The groundwork on those teachings begin early on in Childhood, those were probably the first two spiritual lies that I was taught growing up and by Parents that didn't even go or care about Church. Sad but True, most of Mankind will continue to believe these lies until the day they die. That's why there's much Joy when someone is given the Truth about these things and We get to know them. After all, sometimes it gets lonely out here in the World, Spiritually speaking,
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Appreciated Your Points, Samson.