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Do Persons Have Souls? | Episode 108 | Closer To Truth

2022-02-16 Education
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Make a donation to Closer To Truth to help us continue exploring the world's deepest questions without the need for paywalls: https://shorturl.at/OnyRq Is the "Real You" a special substance that is both nonphysical and immortal? Most people think "Certainly". Most scientists think "Certainly Not". What some theologians think may trouble you. Featuring interviews with J.P. Moreland, Nancey Murphy, Daniel Dennett, Peter van Inwagen, and Huston Smith. Season 1, Episode 8 - #CloserToTruth Archive episode. First aired in 2008. ▶Register for free at CTT.com for subscriber-only exclusives: http://bit.ly/2GXmFsP Closer To Truth host Robert Lawrence Kuhn takes viewers on an intriguing global journey into cutting-edge labs, magnificent libraries, hidden gardens, and revered sanctuaries in order to discover state-of-the-art ideas and make them real and relevant. ▶Free access to Closer to Truth's library of 5,000 videos: http://bit.ly/376lkKN Closer to Truth presents the world’s greatest thinkers exploring humanity’s deepest questions. Discover fundamental issues of existence. Engage new and diverse ways of thinking. Appreciate intense debates. Share your own opinions. Seek your own answers.

Top Comments (10)

@WingsOfDay 2022-03-18

I've watched every single one of Bob's videos and sadly I have to say no one really knows anything and we're just infantile minds trying to make sense of everything. But it is entertaining to watch nonetheless.

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@bernardliu8526 2022-02-17

The first professor’s assertion leaves much to be desired.

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@ClayFarrisNaff 2022-02-20

Robert, I generally like and admire these video essays, but this one frustrates me, because you skipped over the tough questions -- questions I believe you are as likely to harbor as I am. To name a few: if there’s an immortal soul, what is it like before a person’s born? Is it simply a blank sheet? An outline? How is that a meaningful entity? At the other end of life, how does life-experience stamp a person’s immortal soul? Is it the sum of all life experiences? Is it what you are when you die? If the former, how does the soul of a brutal murderer in early life who becomes a saintlike penitent in later life sum up? If the latter, how does an Alzheimer’s patient, who dies in an infantile state, having lost a lifetime of memories, spend eternity? Questions like these, seriously considered, lead to the conclusion that “the soul” is an empty, incoherent concept.

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@terrellrogers1052 2022-03-19

We don’t just have a Soul, We Are Souls.

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@seekertruth3577 2022-02-17

*Great subject and Closer to Truth is an excellent channel.*

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@Manikese 2022-03-17

Thank you for these videos. They are fascinating.

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@spacesciencelab 2022-04-30

its just crazy that how everything just seems to work its amazing and strange, the fact we can even think of these things

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@Chappolicious 2022-02-16

That Porsche got soul😎

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@Zerpentsa6598 2022-02-16

They are embodied spirits when alive, and souls when the body dies.

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@ronaldohlund1985 2026-01-20

Thank you Robert, your work is very thoughful educational!

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