Stephen T. Davis The Resurrection Of The Dead Summary

You are You. “Don’t be alarmed,” he said. “You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen to the top! He is not here yet. See the place where they laid him (Mark 16:6),” this quote discusses the resurrection of Jesus Christ and the overwhelming shock of Jesus coming back. When most people think of the resurrection, most assume that it's only about Jesus Christ and that it is one of the defining characteristics of Christianity. However, within the bible, about 60 people are resurrected. This idea of resurrection being able to happen to almost anyone leaves many with the idea of a powerful and caring God. However, for being a defining characteristic of a belief system, the question that’s never really answered is, what

The idea of memory helping create identity also addresses the remortality of clones/ copies of the person being resurrected. While reading Stephen T. Davis’s paper called, The Resurrection of the Dead, Davis made many valid points; however, the main argument that Davis delved into was that during resurrection to fully come back from death, the same body and soul have to reunify again and become one. However, the soul is the absolute form of the person, it is the purest form of individuality and the purest form of a person. When resurrected, the soul is an immaterial thing and even incomprehensible, therefore, the body is a physical material manifestation of the soul. Instead of a unification of the body and the soul, Davis argued that thinking of the body as a physical manifestation of an immaterial, incomprehensible object makes resurrection easier to understand and more plausible. When people die, the body is left on a physical material plain as the soul leaves to wherever, in a traditional Christian belief, this is when the soul goes to

The impression that the experience of life leaves on the soul is what makes a person truly themselves, in which during the resurrection, the soul is brought back and forced to manifest itself again because of divine intervention or even based on a feeling of an unsatisfactory ending to the souls' lessons/ life. The body is a physical manifestation of the soul. Stephen T. Davis’s paper, The Resurrection of the Dead, brings many points to the idea of resurrection. Davis points out the idea of the past with a fine-tuned finish, adding things such as the soul being conscious during the time away from the body and keeping things such as the need for the soul and the same body for resurrection. Furthermore, Davis also brings up the importance of memory in what makes a person a “whole” person after resurrection. However, the idea that the soul is a separate entity, then the body, is outdated. The understanding that the soul and body are one is vitally important, especially in the context of resurrection. The idea that the body and the soul are two distinct entities, limits the extent and incomprehensibility of the