Genesis 2:7
Behold, all souls are mine; ... the soul that sinneth, it shall die.
Ezekiel 18:4
"Powerful arguments for the existence of the soul.
These include basic awareness of the self, unity of consciousness and the soul, free will, and sameness of the self over time.
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characterized by and unifies mental properties or states and that animates or enlivens its body;---the view that the ‘I’ or self is an immaterial or spiritual substance with the attributes of consciousness and which is not identical to anything physical, including one’s body or any of its parts (e.g., its brain).”
Jonathan Loose argues that explaining consciousness and the self by denying they exist, as materialism does, “seems as obviously false as any position could be”.
"Powerful arguments for the existence of the soul.
These include basic awareness of the self, unity of consciousness and the soul, free will, and sameness of the self over time.
“The soul is an immaterial or spiritual substance that is
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Jonathan Loose argues that explaining consciousness and the self by denying they exist, as materialism does, “seems as obviously false as any position could be”.
In order to esteem the ‘life scientific’ (i.e., scientific activity and reasoning), materialism should be rejected, according to Loose, since it renders reasoning and observations unjustified, and the accomplishments and aspirations of scientists incoherent."
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