17 Apr '13 06:18>
Originally posted by galveston75
Sorry it's all "nonsense" to you. It's not to me and many others.
And if I do give you an answer it will still be nonsense right? So why should I answer?
If you did believe in God and his limitless power it would be an easy answer especially with the examples of ones being resurrected in the past but then you no doubt don't believe that either. ...[text shortened]... ain why should I try?
And I think the poster would appreciate staying on thread, right?
And if I do give you an answer it will still be nonsense right?
That of course depends on what your proposed answer is.
If you did believe in God and his limitless power it would be an easy answer especially with the examples of ones being resurrected in the past but then you no doubt don't believe that either. So again why should I try?
Why would it be an easy answer if I believed in God and His limitless power? I'm asking, basically, about your conception of personal identity. I'm asking what reasons you would have for thinking that some resurrected person A in earthly paradise is numerically identical (one and the same person) to some person B who dies in natural death, especially since you maintain that upon natural death nothing of person B survives.
If you think that just saying "Well, God in His limitless power could make it so" is an easy acceptable answer even supposing that your interlocutor believes in God, I do not agree. That's not any sort of response that provides any actual substance.