Everything we "think", "feel", "see" or otherwise experience are created by and transmitted via chemical reactions, you know, neurotransmitter, hormones and what not. Chemicals. The neurons don't spit out Holy Spirit water or soul juice or anything like that.
Why is it such a stretch to say that once these chemical reactions stop we stop?
Is it because there is something about souls and spirit juice in a book written before people knew about hormones and neurotransmitters?
2006-11-29 01:41:47 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Of course, the real reason they don't want to believe that has more to do with the fact that if they deny supernatural causation of the mind, they cannot come to any other conclusion but that free will is only an illusion, that determinism rules (if only stoichasitically, taking quantum randomness into account).
They'll probably accuse me of being a nihilist for having aquired this understanding of the reality of the universe as if it's something evil. Me, I consider deterministic nihilism the only logical conclusion when faced with the facts the universe provides.
2006-11-29 01:47:17 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I believe the brain and the mind are 2 separate things. I believe the brain processes what we are thinking. There is something spoken of again and again in scripture when it talks about our exhistance down here. That is the spirit. Animals do not have this. Humans are the only part of creation that God "breathed" life into. The spirit makes us aware that there is something beyond this exhistance and is what draws us to God. You notice animals don't worship or ask questions like, "why am i here?" or "what will happen after I die?"
If you look at a computer disk, It has mass and weight. If you fill it up with software, does it gain mass or weight? no. Software is information and information has to mass or weight. Just a thought.
2006-11-29 01:50:07 · answer #2 · answered by sheepinarowboat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You must know that am fond of you, but in this case I disagree very strongly.
A friend recently gave me this theory. I will illustrate using my own example. I ate too much turkey and I gained 5 pounds. To lose this weight I need to restrict myself to 1000 calories a day. In the evening, I want something sweet. My brain says I am hungry,feed me. My conscious says NO! My own will power (soul) has domination over my brain.
I not only believe that we have souls, I believe that our souls live many lives. Most souls cross over. The only souls that do not, decide that for themselves. They could choose to go to the light.
This does not necessarily require a belief in God. I am leaning towards the belief that there is a God.
Just because most of the bible is bs, does not mean there is no God. There is no proof either way, of course. I believe that religion is what makes God look bad.
I look forward to your questions, always.
2006-11-29 02:01:46 · answer #3 · answered by Gorgeoustxwoman2013 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
energy cannot be destroyed it just ends up somewhere in the space time continuem. Just think back before you were born. What do you remember? What did you feel? Nothing right. Well until life begins again for you you will feel nothing. I guess limbo just waiting to be reborn.
2006-11-29 01:43:58 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Man was made of dust and God gave the breath of life. The body includes brain. The human body returns to dust and the breath of life returns to God.
Read the verses from the Holy Bible
Gen 2:7 And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
Gen 3:19 In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou [art], and unto dust shalt thou return.
Gen 13:16 And I will make thy seed as the dust of the earth: so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, [then] shall thy seed also be numbered.
Job 33:4 The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.
Rom 6:23 For the wages of sin [is] death; but the gift of God [is] eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Tts 1:2 In hope of eternal life, which God, that cannot lie, promised before the world began;
May God bless you and reveal his will in you. In Jesus name. Amen
2006-11-29 02:03:17 · answer #5 · answered by SSQ8 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
whilst the religion is susceptible, it gets flaunted and the flock has to huddle mutually. this is the church homes fault because of the fact they do no longer prepare a thank you to pass interior and alter into somebody. i'm a Christian and that i do no longer appreciate the corporate of maximum Christians for the excuses which you reported.
2016-12-29 15:59:11 · answer #6 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
ur right, the brain is full of transmitting devices from the physical universe back to you, the soul, the problem is, we think with our mind, not the brain.
2006-11-29 01:48:18 · answer #7 · answered by MJR 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You are mind, body and spirit. That's what this Christian believes.
2006-11-29 01:52:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's a brutal fact to accept this may be all there is. Some people don't have the balls for it, so they will believe anything.
2006-11-29 01:48:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
i think they're all just bored with reality. it's like if you ask, "what is the best scrabble word I can spell with these letters?" and the Christians look, and they look, and they look, and then they get bored and go play monopoly.
2006-11-29 01:46:28 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋