Apologetics and Evidence

NDErs (i. e. people who have claimed to have had a   Near Death Experience ) often report that when they go to Heaven, they frequently see and recognize people such as friends and family members. It is often also reported that when they were communicating with friends and relatives, they realized that they weren’t speaking English, but that they were telepathically speaking to one another.   It seems it would be impossible to have communication with others without learning every language that has ever existed under the sun, but since heaven is a perfect place, [1]  then communication should be perfect as well. In other words, it seems unlikely that there are barriers to communication. So, I should be able to communicate with the Apostles, upon my arrival for instance, but how? I personally only really know how to speak English fluently. My Spanish, Japanese, German, Russian, Chinese, and Latin is like that of a child, and my Greek is only in reading and writing.  If ...

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...