Immortality

Question 0

What is Dualism?

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The idea a human is made up of two parts; body and soul. This is an idea of the philosopher Plato

Question 1

What is immortality?

Answer 1

Living forever

Question 2

What is materialism?

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The belief that a persons mind is inseparable from the body therefore no survival of the soul after death.

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What is a body?

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The physical part of a person. The part that we can see and touch,

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Whats the difference between soul and body?

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Soul is the non-physical part of the body- cant see and touch it- the real “you” inside

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What is resurrection?

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When your soul and body rise from the dead and come back to life.

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What is a legacy?

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Something handed down from an ancestor; a way of being remembered.

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What is heaven?

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A state of eternal happiness in the presence of God

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What is hell?

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A state of eternal separation from God, a punishment or soin

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What is reincarnation?

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The soul being born again in another body

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What is moksha?

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Hindu belief of breaking free from the cycle of life-death-reincarnation, to become one with God

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What is karma?

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The law of cause and effect

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What is rebirth?

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Continuing life in another form

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What is scripture?

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Sacred writing of a religion

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What is a ghost?

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A soul without a body

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What is channeling?

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Communicating with the dead through a medium

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What is a near death experience?

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Some people when they are close to death or in an intense situation claim to have a sense of leaving their bodies and seeing what exists beyond this life.

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What did Plato believe?

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In dualism the body is constantly changing soul is eternal; perfect and never changed when a human dies, their body dies but their soul lives on in a perfect world

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What is a problem with Plato’s theory?

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No proof of perfect world or soul

Question 19

What does Dawkins believe?

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In materialism we have no soul; simply made of DNA when we die, our cells die and there is nothing left over no afterlife, no heaven or hell, no reincarnation, just death

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What is the problem with Dawkins’s theory?

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No soul would mean things such as love and merely chemical reactions which someone in love would argue against

Question 21

What 5 things could count as immortality?

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Resurrection Reincarnation Legacy Rebirth Memory

Question 22

What is the most famous account of a resurrection?

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Jesus. He died on the cross, was buried then 3 days later rose from the dead in a spiritual body.

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What is the problem of resurrection?

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Bodies will decay when buried and spiritual accounts that are biased anyway

Question 24

What is samsara?

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the process at which Hindu bodies die and their soul lives on in another body (reincarnation)

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In reincarnation, what does your next body depend on?

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how good you have lived your life and so gained good karma

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Whats a problem with reincarnation?

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if we have lived lives before why cant we remember them?

Question 27

Buddhists believe in?

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having no soul, but having a cosmic energy that is passed onto another human being once that one had died. REBIRTH.

Question 28

An example of a legacy?

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Elvis Presley- he lives on through hid music and films

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What is the problem with a legacy and memory?

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The person is still dead and buried in the ground. When the last person to remember them dies, does the person die then?

Question 30

What is a piece of evidence for immortality? scripture

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in the bible Jesus said "He who believes in me though he dies, yet shall he live" this suggests people will go to heaven in a spiritual body as Jesus did

Question 31

What is an argument against scripture evidence?

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Its outdated which contradicts our science and knowledge now

Question 32

Evidence for ghosts proving immortality?

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Often more than one person sees the ghost or it is seen in more than one place

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Evidence for channeling supporting immortality?

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Mediums usually give correct and detailed accounts of those who have dies

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How might mediums make this information up?

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they could be reading peoples body language

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Evidence for NDE's supporting immortality?

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People ho have been declared "clinically dead" ave come back to life. Many of these have claimed to have had an experience.

Question 36

If NDE's aren't real, then how can you explain these experiences?

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The experiences come from a lack of oxygen to the brain,

Question 37

What is cryonics?

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the practice of preserving humans until they can be resiscitated

Question 38

Will cryonics prove there is no soul?

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If cryonics works the person will be woken up with the body and soul still together