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#afterlife
The Ego Trick (baggini, Julian)
Immortality as a gift of God
One corollary of this view is that, as Thacker puts it, ‘it is not remotely the case that the soul has its own inherent immortality. Basically God makes the call after death whether we survive or not. Immortality is a gift of God, and it’s a gift of God after death, it’s not a…
Bodily resurrection without dualism
If we reject dualism and believe that bodily resurrection is necessary for an afterlife, do we have any good reasons to think it will happen? The idea is clearly a hard sell in the contemporary world. You might well ask, ‘Is this not all completely absurd, quite contrary to our…
Resurrection or replica?
A more common, and more plausible, strategy has been to accept that there will be some mixing of the basic matter out of which we are made, and to accept the consequence that God would have to use new atoms when resurrecting us. As Brown puts it, ‘our eternal existence would…
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…
No sermons on the soul
‘In my forty years of being an evangelical, probably thirty years of remembering sermons, I don’t think I’ve heard a single sermon on the soul.’ Preachers tend to steer clear because it is all rather murky and complicated. This may seem reasonable, but in some ways I think it’s…