What makes you you and not somebody else? Scientists,
philosophers and theologians are trying to figure out the same thing. Memories
can become lost over time or through traumatic experiences such as an aneurism
or stroke, maybe even a specific event. So are you who you remember yourself to
be? This can’t be true if these events take away memories. We change, grow and
become different people and forget who we once were before these times of
change. Personality couldn’t be the only determinate of whom we identify
ourselves as.
So is our
“spirit” the source of who we are? Most of society would agree to this, that
there is a soul trapped within our bodily flesh. Science, theology and
philosophy don’t support this vast theory. Bodies have to matter to God. Jesus
was born into flesh and dealt with events that every body must encounter. Paul
points out that bodies matter because matter matters and perishable bodies are
raised as spiritual bodies. Jesus identified himself through his bodily
identity and who he was revealed how he was. Who he was as a body extended on
into eternity.
Our
identity is not something that is functioned by brain chemistry or our soul
trapped in our body, it is everything we have done in our bodily encounters
that will move forward into eternity. We are our story.
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