Apologetics and Evidence

This conversation seems like it should begin with a discussion on the soul. A disembodied soul is the description for what happens when a person dies and is simply without a physical human body. This state of existence will be the case until the event of the Resurrection of the saints.   In both Cartesian dualism and anthropological hylomorphism schools of thought, the disembodied state of the soul takes place. When we die, our souls leave our bodies. Dualism is the idea that the soul and the body are separate things, and the hylomorphic idea is that a soul and a body are not separate things, but a unity. As in, your soul could not fit into the body of another person. Your soul is essentially custom fit to your body.  What makes this interesting is that there are things that neither school of thought can answer very well, but there are questions that both answer very well. For one, there is a big question concerning dualism, which is about the Resurrection of the dead. For ins...

Deathbed Doubts :  I have seen on several occasions when someone is dying that he or she has  doubts about his or her faith. Normally, in order to help one suppress doubts and be encouraged in his Christian beliefs, I will discuss the eyewitness testimony of the Apostles , [1]   the miracles that Jesus did , [2]   who He was , [3]   and that all of these things are possible because of the biggest miracle of all . [4] I differentiate  biggest miracle  and  greatest miracle  by the  creation  and  salvation/resurrection . The creation of the universe is the  biggest  miracle, and salvation/resurrection is the  greatest . Because we have the biggest miracle, the greatest miracle is possible. The greatest Miracle, the Resurrection: Jesus was alive, He died, and He rose again from the dead.  The reason I discuss these things specifically is because I want to help suppress these doubts by showing that we have evid...