(June 12, 2013 at 8:26 pm)Ryantology Wrote: If we don't need material to have minds or souls or whatever, which are capable of interacting with the matter which comprises our bodies and influencing it so that it behaves according to the impulses of the immaterial mind, why is a material body even necessary in the first place? Why not just make us be immaterial beings which interact with the material world directly?
That's not just an empty question, for Christian dogma treats the material aspect of humanity as vital to the whole concept of sin. But, then again, God creating the universe in the first place seems pointless in the context of Christian dogma.
It is a weird thought that we're being forced to play this cosmic game of Big Brother which will lead to either eternal pleasure or punishment. What if I didn't want to be involved in the first place??
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" ~ Aristotle
