1. You wrote * **Only Those Preserved May Recieve Good Resurrection:** People whose bodies decay will be lake of fire and the second death.
My comment: This is complete reinterpretation of the original intention of the passage in the original context. It IS an AMUSING WAY to interpret it in view of cryonics and CAN be used for cryonics in my opinion. You would HAVE to assume MONISM (Greek monism as opposed to PLATONIC DUALISM) for this to be actually true. Your interpretation ASSUMES the very thing cryonics assumes so the bible passage overly is not truly effectively convincing to an already confirmed dualist. It IS amusing however.
Rick continues- I ran a search on your article using the keyword "inside" and came up with this list of quotes
If you place your mouse over the word tērēsē, you will see the words “tērēsē: keeps in-tact.” So, the original translation of John 8 51 tells us to keep God’s word intact. Not just follow his word. But to keep his word intact. All in one piece. Together. Preserve it. Watch over it. Guard it. Keep his word intact inside your brain for all time.
When you read the Bible, which is also the Word of God, and you store those verses in your brain as memory, you are storing the Word of God inside you, and so God also lives in you through those stored words. Your brain is a holy sanctuary for the Word of God, which is God inside of you. As long as the word of life is stored inside your brain, you can have eternal life.
In order for God to live in us, the Word must be present in us, For God is The Word. We store the Word of God inside us by reading the Bible. Our memories of the verses from the Bible are God inside of us
Each of us has his or her life history stored inside the brain–a message that has a very special meaning. All our memories, our lives and our loves, our moods, our likes and dislikes, all this information is stored up there in our brain, right alongside the Word of God.
We Must Maintain The Word Inside Us Even While Dead
And what are his works? The Bible…the Word of God…the information in the Bible which is stored inside each of us as part of our memories….the Word of God stored inside us is Christ, who is The Word made flesh who walked among us. Our memories of his teachings are the God inside of us.
Rick concludes- It looks like you missed the best quote "the kingdom of heaven is within you" which is indicative of the possibility of storing the kingdom of heaven "in our brain" which is absurd on the face of it and would require a whole new interpretation I think.
Aside from that, none of the references deals with the theory that the brain is an antenna that modulates the memory and personality from the quantum realm and only has localized muscle memory and sensory functions but tranmits and recives quantum personality and memory signals that are not actually "in the brain". Penfield demonstrated that. Quantum physics allows for it. And NDE's seem to indicate it.
Your line of argementation works for christian cyonicists, which is probably closer to where I used to be than the reductionists we see in cryonics so it warms my heart although I don't know if I would have accepted the line even in 1980s or 1990s in my 20's and 30s'. I might have. It's certainly a very good addition to Ettinger's line of thinking I think in Prospect. I would eve like to see an appendix in an updated new edition of prospect that includes your line of thought because it's convincing. But not to me now.
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I would say that mind exists apart from biology and meat. That is where this thread started with Jesus referring to meat. That's Mathew 6:25
What is mathew 6:25 about?
Matthew 6:25 is the beginning of a passage (verses 25-34) where Jesus instructs his followers not to worry about material possessions, specifically focusing on food, drink, and clothing.
In essence, Matthew 6:25 is about:
* **Trusting in God's Provision:** Jesus emphasizes that life is more than just the necessities of food and clothing. He argues that since God gave life itself, He will surely provide for the things that sustain life.
* **The Futility of Worry:** Jesus points out that worry is unproductive. Anxious fretting won't add a single hour to your life.
* **Shifting Focus to God's Kingdom:** The solution to worry, according to Jesus, is to prioritize seeking God's kingdom and righteousness. If you do this, He promises that all the necessary things will be provided for you.
In short, Matthew 6:25 encourages us to trust in God's care and focus on spiritual priorities rather than being consumed by anxieties about material needs.
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