LIFE AFTER DEATH

• JOHN HICK

• Resurrection ?

• Body and soul

• What kind of body?

• Jesus resurrection

• They didn’t recognise him

• They did recognise him

• Through closed walls

• They could touch him

• Marks of the crucifixion

• He ate

• Would disappear and reappear

• If Jesus had no body = a ghost and not God

• If had same body = coma and no resurrection = no God

• Jesus alive in resurrection ‘body’ and ‘soul’.

• What would the materialists say?

• Who?

Body

SoulWho are you?

Materialist Views of Death

But not everyone . . .

But not everyone . . .

Just like Rover

Dead all over

Materialist Life After DeathMaterialist Life After Death

The Identity ProblemThe Identity Problem

Soul• Memory• Personality

Loss of memory or Change in personality

= Different You

(lost identity)

Body• Soul is one with body• Decayed• Cremated• Obliterated

Different body = different you (you are

not you anymore)

Materialist Life After DeathMaterialist Life After Death

Re-creation TheoryRe-creation Theory

for example . . .for example . . .

But someone may ask, "How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?“

How foolish! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

When you sow, you do not plant the body that will be, but just a seed, perhaps of wheat or of something else.

But God gives it a body as he has determined, and to each kind of seed he gives its own body.

St. Paul, writing to the Christians in Corinth

Body

John Smith lived in the United States.

One day his friends watched him as he disappeared without a trace.

At that same moment, an exact replica of Smith appeared in India.

He had the same personality, memories and bodily features.

He even thought of himself as being the John Smith who disappeared in the United States.

After recovering from the shock of his mysterious journey, everyone finally recognised that he was, in fact, John Smith.

Soul

• Jesus resurrection

• They didn’t recognise him

• They did recognise him

• Through walls and closed doors

Connections & ImplicationsConnections & Implications

• They could touch him

• Marks of the crucifixion

• He ate

• Would disappear and reappear

• Omega Point Theory

• Fourier Transforms

• Imaginary Numbers

• Moebius Strip