 Pianoperformer
If you want to know whether we have a soul or not, have you ever tried to separate your soul from your body?
I'm not talking about accepting what others say about out of body experiences but about trying to do this yourself? I understand you are blind from other posts I have read, but if you floated above your own body and saw it or went to another place and saw things that were there, would that be proof enough for you?
Or would something like remote viewing while still in your body, if you could do this, convince you that our consciousness can be separate from our physical senses? Just trying to get a sense of what you would accept as proof and whether you are willing to be the one that proves it, to yourself at least.
We can talk about this till the world crumbles but there is no new argument under the sun. No one else's experiences can or should hold up as our own proof. Like you say, unless we are talking to the expert that went to the moon or to the bottom of the ocean or to someone that is an expert on physics, and even if we do read and accept what they say, what we are doing in any of those areas is accepting the beliefs and experiences of others as our own proof of the truth.
Spiritual matters may not be verifiable but neither is science in all cases either. There are as many differing expert opinions on global warming, drug effectiveness and side effects, economic trends, causes of cancer, forensic crime, etc., as there are people who claim to know there is or isn't life after death. Do these things not exist or happen because the experts disagree?
What you are requiring would be like asking someone to take you to the moon and get a rock before you will believe the rock that is on display could really be a moon rock or have any faith in a book by NASA of the trip. Why is the requirement for proof in these spiritual matters to be so far above what we accept in any other area of science?
We can also talk about the history, translation and purity of the Bible but the question is, do you really think the Apostle Paul was writing down a bunch of lies about the third heaven or that the miracles people wrote in the Bible are some kind of hypocritical conspiracy of men?
If scientific researchers, whoever they are, tells something of a soul, why is that to be trusted anymore than thirteen or more men saying they saw blind eyes opened or the dead raised, all by a man who also said we have a soul?  |