Personal Narrative: Life After Death

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Nobody likes the idea that we are going to die. It’s one of those things that pops into your head whenever you get comfortable, possibly as a subconscious motivational tool. The ratios one hundred percent to zero. Everybody dies. And so, the question is, is that it? What happens to you after you die? Human beings are the only animals on earth who understand they will one day die. I do believe there is life after death due to believing in Christianity, Resurrection, Reincarnation and then Paranormal phenomena. The ideas that make the least amount of sense to me would be that we cease to exist after death and the dependence of the mind.
Christianity developed from Judaism. This religion believed originally that when people died they went to a dark place under the earth called Sheol. When Jesus died on the cross he was giving up his life for other people's sins and demonstrating the love of God. When Jesus rose again he proved that it was possible to overcome death and live with God for all eternity. Christians were
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From the nature of soul, or spirit, is that it does not have quantifiable, countable parts as matter does. You can cut a body in half but not a soul; you can't have half a soul. Since a soul has no parts, it cannot be decomposed, as a body can. Whatever is composed (of parts) can be decomposed: a molecule into atoms, a cell into molecules, an organ into cells, a body into organs, a person into body and soul. But soul is not composed, therefore not decomposable. It could die only by being annihilated as a whole. But this would be contrary to a basic law of the universe: that nothing simply and absolutely vanishes, just as nothing simply pops into existence with no cause. But if the soul dies neither in parts (by decomposition) nor as a whole by annihilation, then it does not

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