Posted by Cygnus [Cygnus] on April 08, 1999 at 13:50:19 {vxsc0.TBNkdFQNCHpWZ.L4bdfUTIaI}:
In Reply to: *What Died Must Rise? posted by tobor on April 08, 1999 at 12:31:45:
: Traditional concepts of the soul don't work at all.
Whose tradition? Some believe(d) that the soul lives on in differing states, and has no need for a resurrection. Others believe(d) in an entirely spiritual resurrection, to be transformed into beings like angels. And of course there is the view of the conditionalists like JWs and other Adventist type Christians.
The traditional Christian teaching of Resurrection is future and bodily, when the souls of those in Hades and Heaven are reunited with their fleshly bodies, some to go on in an eternal state of bliss, others to be sent to the Lake of Fire for ever-after. The theory is that Man is composed of body, mind and spirit. One's argument is dependent upon what one's definition of 'spirit' is.
Personally, if I had to choose, I'd go with the conditionalists, because I find very little convincing evidence out there that suggest anything (immaterial or whatever)
survives death, and we are, as Jan is fond to say, basically machines. When we break down, we die and that's that. I see no reason why God must be bound by the laws of physics and chemistry and could not reintegrate a person's memories
and personality into a new body without the horror of realizing one is a mere "copy."