The hypothetic soul is not keying this keyboard talking to you... It´s me, myself, I! That´s what I´d want saved if I were you. Your hypothetic soul is an unknown quantity in comparison to what you know you like, dislike, makes you laugh, be happy or depressed. Everything that is language, love and hate, emotions, territoriality, everything. Everything that is you will not be saved, cannot be allowed to be saved even if god existed because it would make a chaos out of paradise.
2006-11-01 06:15:42 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
ENIK: I´m sorry... what?
2006-11-01 06:18:23 · update #1
Are you trying to use Aikido on me?
2006-11-01 06:17:45 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, setting aside for the moment that Christianity, Islam, and some elements of Judaism all suggest the ultimate destiny of man is a bodily resurrection, again, I'd continue to assert this is a material outlook, and not necessarily the only possible outlook one can have.
The keyboard and the tendons, bone, and muscle that you use to depress the keys are only part of the equation of you posting on the Internet. Beyond that is the idea, the thought that inspired you to do it. And no - there's more to you than the chemical storage of ideas in the brain. Even beyond the religious or metaphysical questions, the quantum mechanical nature of thought ties itself to patterns in space and time that go beyond your simple body chemistry. Thought is tied to the intrinsically random nature of the subatomic universe! Who you are, and the self-directing nature you possess, is not part of the illusion of atomic-level physics. It works below that, in the place where the illusory nature of what we see and feel doesn't apply.
Did you know you are mostly made of empty space? So is everything you touch. When you pick up a piece of wood, you can't actually feel the wood. Instead you are feeling the push and pull of electrons and protons, where one molecule refuses to let another molecule come any closer. In truth, you've never touched anything. Not the keyboard in front of you, even. Much of what we think we know is an "unknown quantity" and a lot less real than we'd like to believe. You've never seen the sun. Instead, photons that passed through 149,000,000 km of space chose a quantum mechanical path back from the sun when these photons struck your retina.
Knowing how much more (and how much less) things really are is precisely why Jesus said, "the truth will set you free."
If you wish (for whatever reason) not to be more than the sum of your parts, it is within your power to be that little. Just understand that many of us will decline to make that choice with you.
2006-11-01 14:41:52 · answer #2 · answered by evolver 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Who we are is more than just flesh. There is an obersvation on how we talk when we refer to ourselves. "This is my body" not "This is a body" Our soul, though not seen, is there, sort of like a hand in a glove, you cannot see the hand, but you know it is there. Why not want to go to heaven? Why not want to save this soul? Do you know that when we roll up these tents (our mortal bodies) we will get eternal dwellings (glorfied bodies just like Christ's) No, it won't be chaos, because sin will be no more, body or not.
2006-11-01 14:21:50 · answer #3 · answered by newcovenant0 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
To be saved by God laws is better than being lost without any vision of the end of life
2006-11-01 14:21:35 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe in the soul, that there is a part of me that will survive my death ... why should we save that? Why shouldn't we? Are not all things connected? Even if 'God' is simply that thing that connects us all, does not that part of us (our molecules) survive? Yes. No matter is lost, or gained, at least that is what the scientists teach us ... so, a part of you lives on no matter how you look at it. For me, it's a soul...
2006-11-01 14:24:11 · answer #5 · answered by Terri 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋