(March 6, 2011 at 2:57 am)padraic Wrote:
If that were my only argument then it would be from ignorance, but seeing as I stated that Jesus isn't God, and am a Christian, there's obviously more to my belief then that. The identity of self does not cease at the ceasing of brain activity. The identity of self is stored can be manipulated in a physical sense. Therefore logically there is more to identity than the physical influences it has. One explanation is that it is independent of the physical, thus saying that there are at least 2 substances identity consists of. For simplicities sake I don't assume any more than that one other state I term as Spiritual self. Hopefully that explains why I believe in substance dualism. I'm not experienced enough in the field to fully explain the properties of the other substance (especially since it's not based in measurable evidence, yet), but Christianity provides an adequate solution for this, IMO.
I agree with an Augustine-like approach that think the unsubstantial can be reasoned, where they do not deny evidence.
I only cited the platonic belief in an eternal soul that it is unsupported by Biblical doctrine.
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"There ought to be a term that would designate those who actually follow the teachings of Jesus, since the word 'Christian' has been largely divorced from those teachings, and so polluted by fundamentalists that it has come to connote their polar opposite: intolerance, vindictive hatred, and bigotry." -- Philip Stater, Huffington Post
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