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Immortality Flashcards

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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

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What is immortality?

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Living forever

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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

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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

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What 5 things could count as immortality?

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Resurrection Reincarnation Legacy Rebirth Memory

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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

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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?

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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.

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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?

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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

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What is an argument against scripture evidence?

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Its outdated which contradicts our science and knowledge now

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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.

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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,

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What is cryonics?

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the practice of preserving humans until they can be resiscitated

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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

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