The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian) / quote 242 of 254
Not betting on eschatological resurrection
For anyone who lacks the sure faith to simply trust that things must turn out as they are described in the Bible, no matter how incoherent they may seem to us, the traditional Christian idea of the physical resurrection of the dead seems implausible, if not entirely impossible. The dilemma is simple: the price you pay for accepting the essentially embodied nature of human beings is that such bodies are not and could not be reconstructed perhaps centuries after death and made immortal. The price you pay for saying that they are like our present bodies, only radically different in certain key respects, is that you place a huge mystery where an explanation should be. If I wanted eternal life, I would not be happy to bet on an eschatological resurrection.