Immortality

Question 1

Immortality

Answer 1

Living forever

Question 2

Dualism

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Materialism

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Body

Answer 4

The physical part of a person. The part that we can see and touch such as skin and bones.

Question 5

Soul

Answer 5

The non-physical part of a person. The part we can’t see and touch: the real you is inside you.

Question 6

Resurrection

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Legacy

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Heaven

Answer 8

The state of eternal happiness in the presence of God

Question 9

Hell

Answer 9

The state of eternal separation from God, seen as a punishment for a sin

Question 10

Reincarnation

Answer 10

The soul is born again in another body

Question 11

Moksha

Answer 11

Hindu Belief. Breaking free from the cycle of life - death - reincarnation to become one with God

Question 12

Rebirth

Answer 12

A transfer of energy from one body to the next

Question 13

Scripture

Answer 13

Sacred writing of a religion, for example: the Bible, the Qur’an etc.

Question 14

Ghost

Answer 14

A soul without a body

Question 15

Channelling

Answer 15

Communicating with the dead through a medium

Question 16

Near Death Experience

Answer 16

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

Question 17

Explain Plato and his beliefs in Dualism

Answer 17

He argued that the human body is constantly changing and decaying. The soul however he argued was eternal. According to him when a human dies their body dies but their soul lives on in a perfect world. Christians and Muslims agreed with his argument but instead said that the soul went to heaven. There is no proof however of this perfect world of a soul.

Question 18

Explain Dawkins and his beliefs in Materialism

Answer 18

Evolutionary biologist who argues that there is no soul and that instead we are simply made of different cells of DNA. When we die our cells dies and nothing is left over. There is no after life, no heaven, no hell, no reincarnation, just death. A problem with this is that surely we are made up of something more than skin and bones. Having no soul means that things such as love is simply just a chemical reaction, people in love may argue against this.

Question 19

Explain a legacy

Answer 19

Stories of a person’s life that have been handed down through generations or a community. For example, Elvis Presley’s body died in 1977 yet many believe he is still alive through music and his film.

Question 20

Explain Scripture

Answer 20

” He who believes in me, though he dies, yet shall he live” Christians believe that people will go to heaven, in a spiritual body has Jesus did. or maybe hell?

Question 21

Explain Ghosts

Answer 21

Manifestation of dead people - often more than one person see’s them so they cannot be hallucinations, or the same ghost is seen in more than one place. As ghost could walk through walls, this supported the belief in the resurrection of the body as it seemed that the body resurrected in a spiritual form. However ghost could be hallucinations or a trick of the light or a hoax made by someone to trick others.

Question 22

Explain Channelling

Answer 22

Some people believe that certain people can communicate with the dead, often give people accurate information about the person who has died. However investigations into mediums prove many of them are frauds and that they can just read people’s body language in order to get money out of them.

Question 23

Explain Near Death Experience

Answer 23

People who have been declared dead have been brought back to life. Many claim to have had an experience and often these are very similar, going towards a light a sense of happiness and seeing dead relatives, however NDE’s are given the name as the person is not really dead the experiences could be due to the lack of oxygen to the brain.

Question 24

Arguments against immortality

Answer 24

Science: Once you are dead you are just dead due to the fact that all the cells and DNA inside your body are also inactive so nothing can remain for there to be any kind of soul.
Cryonics: Preserving humans so they could be resuscitated - Ted Williams baseball player believed that he will be brought back to life in the future, if this is possible will this prove that there is no soul and this hasn’t left your body for an afterlife.
Space: Humans are exploring space and have yet to find any evidence of the afterlife - the souls of the dead becoming one with the universe. However many explorers of space have seen proof there is a God in a sense of power.
Body’s decay: People can see for themselves that the bodies of dead people are not everlasting. They have proof that the physical form of humans doesn’t survive death. In the past dead bodies have been dug up only to find skeletons with no flesh or organs and have decayed over time. People say that the soul is the immortal part and not the body.