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...

Life is precious... In researching for leading a discussion on the nature of the soul and the mind/body problem,  I remember reading an article on flashes of light at the moment of fertilization of an egg by a sperm. Please check out this brief video clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-vfTQQZ5W0 There is a correlation with zinc and light at the moment of fertilization which researchers are calling a "zinc firework," which is quite literally a flash of light. I think this is extraordinary for several reasons. The Bible Describes God as Light In 1 John 1:5-7, the Bible says,  “This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all. If we claim to have fellowship with him and yet walk in the darkness, we lie and do not live out the truth. But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.”  It is interesti...

            The prologue in the book of Jonah begins with an introduction of the protagonist, who is Jonah himself, and continues to prepare the reader for the rest of the narrative with vital information. This can be found in verses 1:1-3.             T he plot is the order from God to Jonah to preach to the people of Nineveh, Jonah refuses, and eventually is presented with a problem. As the plot thickens, in the end of chapter one Jonah is swallowed by a great fish. This could possibly be the beginning of a sub-plot since the development of the main character changes in a dramatic way.             The characters are Jonah, God, the sailors and the people of Nineveh. Jonah in this story is the protagonist since he is introduced as the main character of the story that is presented with a problem. Jonah’s char...