Christians: If we continue to be conscious after death does that mean we think with our soul, not our brains?

Answer 1

Great Question!!!!!!

I believe both is true. The brain, of course, handles involuntary actions, but I think that it also sends us impulses. Like I am hungry. My soul can override my brain and say, No, I am on a diet. I believe our souls are who we are and it contains our memory, reason, and intelligence. Which brings up another question, mental deformities. Retardation is a physiological problem. That hinders the soul, of course.

I think that the level of common sense and intelligence we have is a reflection on the age of our souls.

Answer 2

I know that as an atheist you have regard for what the Bible says but in this instance, the Bible agrees with your line of thinking,
Your soul is you. (Ezekiel 18:4) Look! All the souls—to me they belong. As the soul of the father so likewise the soul of the son—to me they belong. The soul that is sinning—it itself will die
Ecclesiastes 9:4-6 For as respects whoever is joined to all the living there exists confidence, because a live dog is better off than a dead lion.  For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten.  Also, their love and their hate and their jealousy have already perished, and they have no portion anymore to time indefinite in anything that has to be done under the sun.

Answer 3

The Bible leaves no aura of mystery around the purpose of life and what death means. It says that in death “there is no work nor devising nor knowledge nor wisdom” and that the dead “are conscious of nothing at all.” (Ecclesiastes 9:5, 10) In other words, the dead are dead. The doctrine of the immortal soul is not Biblical, so there is no profound mystery to be solved about the condition of the dead.—Genesis 3:19; Psalm 146:4; Ecclesiastes 3:19, 20; Ezekiel 18:4.

The Bible thus teaches that death brings total cessation to one’s thinking and consciousness. Death ends activity, work, devising, knowledge, and wisdom. Death is nonexistence. Assuredly there is no life after death! This explanation of the human soul and condition of the dead may come as a shock to many. But so did the discovery of the earth’s shape when it was found to be spherical. The human race had to reconcile itself to the truth. Likewise, when the emperor of Japan acknowledged his humanity and renounced his godship, the ideas of millions had to be readjusted in line with the facts. And when scientists put men on the moon, millions had to revise their religious ideas of the universe. So, too, millions of people around the world in this 20th century have already reconciled their beliefs to their discoveries of the Bible’s teachings regarding a destructible soul and the unconscious dead.

But how is this knowledge about the dead comforting or cheering? Well, it is comforting to know that our dead loved ones are not suffering pain anywhere. They are not existing in a semiliving, inert state of Nirvana. Nor are they toiling along a remorseless and merciless series of rebirths, or samsaras. Nor are their identities lost forever, released (moksha) into a mass of impersonal World Spirit (paramātman). But the dead are dead. They are in a state of nonexistence. Moreover, there is a bright hope for our dead loved ones. This is why the foregoing information about the dead is comforting and cheering

Answer 4

The 'mind-soul problem' is interesting. why limit the question to Christians, by the way.

You're not the first to ask, and won't be the last. Considering the various Dualist and Monist positions, and then the problem with what you mean, exactly, by 'conscious' or 'death' or 'soul' or 'brain', the answers run deep and wide.

You've also invited one of my pet peeves - the 15,000 word response.

Answer 5

"If we continue to be conscious after death" you assume.
Well, first of all you do not continue to be conscious. And your soul does not need to think and if it could what good would that do anyway? Your soul goes where it is going and that is that.

Answer 6

You dont think with your brains, your brains is just meat the sends signals to your body telling you that you are hungry, that you feel pain, it is the C drive of your body. You think with your mind. I once heard someone compare them this way. The mind is to the souls as the brain is to the body.

Answer 7

The mind isn't the recommendations. that's the seat of the recommendations the following in this realm, yet once you go away the body, your understanding maintains on. As for "soul," that refers to our needed self, and that's were given no longer something to do with the body. we are the soul. Christians erroneously trust that we "have" a soul." No. we are the soul and we stay (quickly) in a body. definite the soul isn't like the mind. The mind dies finally, even as the soul can't die because it replaced into not in any respect born. It exists, it truly is all. And enable's keep modern technology out of this as they're so *&%$#@! naive, that's no longer even humorous anymore. the thanks to ascertain about this stuff is via metaphysical journey (meditation). i recognize that physicalists proper away blow off metaphysics, yet for sure, that's totally unscientific, isn't it? a real scientist investigates - they don't leap to conclusions ... hence there are few genuine scientists contained in the international ...

Answer 8

No.................... the brain is the conscious between the body and the soul. cut the brain and you still have the soul. cut the soul and you have a void, an empty brain. true death.
the soul does have conscious, but tends to be on the spiritual side of the consciousness.

Answer 9

Perhaps the range of our thought is limited only by the physical and bilogical limitations of our brains. God only knows how clearly our souls will think when the brain is out of the equation.

Or maybe we sit on clouds and play harps in heavenly post-lobotomy bliss.

Answer 10

The mechanism of thinking occurs in the brain. When we die, our soul reaches a different level of conciousness - we don't "remain conscious", but we are aware of things at that level of being.