Some Christian firmly believe they will be resurrected.
Reincarnation is as a thought based on the immortality of souls, but we can't be so certain as far as we can't confirm the souls are immortal.
Resurrection, on the other hand, has nothing to do with this immortality. We can't deny resurrection, we can say we can realise resurrection as the ultimate form of our scientific achievement. Those who wish their resurrection had better try to make the most of their life at present. This is one of the rarest opportunity they live.
In the end resurrection will take place, but it takes time. It will definitely take place by the end of time.
Personally, I believe in reincarnation because I have memories of former lives. I agree that doesn't prove the soul's immortality, it only shows that the soul lives longer than one particular body (cf. Plato's "Phaedo").
ReplyDeleteWhat does resurrection mean, that I'll be given a body (similar to my present one?) at the end of time? Maybe. Or maybe I'll some day cease to exist, body as well as soul. Or maybe something I can't imagine. I've got an open mind about this.
Reincarnation, resurrection.. I don't believe in either of them. Probably immortality of souls is more scientific than resurrection. But it depends..If the corpse were kept in a big freezer, it might be possible for us to give a new life in the far future. But if it were cremated, even God can take to restore it for more than one biblical years- here one day is equal to 1 billion years.
ReplyDeleteOf course I don't have a memory in my previous lives, I think most people don't have it even if the souls were immortal. Our memory is banished prenatally.
No, most people don't have the memories - consciously, at least.
ReplyDeleteTalking about science: I've read in one of Arthur C. Clarke's books that it should be possible before long to transfer everything our brains contain to a computer. Then, what we think of as our mind or personality (soul?) would be stored there, potentially forever. (I asked a computer programmer, and he said yes, sure, it's only a matter of 100 times more capacity than our now biggest computers.) Giving it a body again would allegedly be a piece of cake, "a simple case of nano-assembly".
It's science fiction, yes, but Sir Arthur put some notes to the book, and he believes this one.
Yeah, even now the Internet has become one gigantic brain, and that is a collective brain made from a lot of intelligence.
ReplyDeleteBefore the invention of the Internet, the akashic records were in utopia. Now the Internet will be heading for this akashic world.