In this journal entry, I will try to summarize the entire article and then start again from the beginning to describe each important point. I will also share my thoughts and personal opinion on each important topic. I have chosen the article with the title "Life After Death" written by William L. Rowe and taken from the publication Philosophy of Religion. As a whole, I would say that this article is a balanced and informative piece on the arguments for and against an after- life. The article even goes on to show the arguments on what, if there is an afterlife, that might be like. It talks a little bit about what that might mean for our souls. If our souls are immortal and stay living or existing long after our physical bodies are gone
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The author goes on talk about a séance. What is interesting about this particular case though is that the soul that was being contacted was of no relation to the person communicating with the spritual medium. The medium was given very little information about the man who died. His identity was kept secret but still the medium was able to give details about the bizzare way in which the man died. The brothers of the man who died used several mediums and were also able to find out from them detailed descriptions about the nature of the man's work on earth. He was an inventor and the medium was able to go into detail about a machine that she otherwise couldn't possibly have known anything about. The brothers of the deceased man did everything that they could to make sure that these mediums were not lying or faking their abilities. Even still, they were able to somehow learn things that only the deceased man and his family might know. This was the only example given of a scientific argument of life after death.
The final case for the afterlife given in this article is the theological argument. This basically says that God exists and created people to exist with him in the afterlife. I believe in God and I believe that there is a life after this but what that life may be like there is no way to know until we are actually
The author goes on talk about a séance. What is interesting about this particular case though is that the soul that was being contacted was of no relation to the person communicating with the spritual medium. The medium was given very little information about the man who died. His identity was kept secret but still the medium was able to give details about the bizzare way in which the man died. The brothers of the man who died used several mediums and were also able to find out from them detailed descriptions about the nature of the man's work on earth. He was an inventor and the medium was able to go into detail about a machine that she otherwise couldn't possibly have known anything about. The brothers of the deceased man did everything that they could to make sure that these mediums were not lying or faking their abilities. Even still, they were able to somehow learn things that only the deceased man and his family might know. This was the only example given of a scientific argument of life after death.
The final case for the afterlife given in this article is the theological argument. This basically says that God exists and created people to exist with him in the afterlife. I believe in God and I believe that there is a life after this but what that life may be like there is no way to know until we are actually