(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) In our last post, we saw that Jesus and his early followers had a materialistic understanding of human nature. They believed and taught that bodily resurrection is the only hope for a future life (a doctrine that is fundamentally inconsistent with the idea that we have immaterial souls). In this post, we […]
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Resurrection: The Only Hope of Future Life
(Podcast Version – Follow/Subscribe) In the past few posts, we’ve seen that ancient Israelite ideas of death were rooted in their ideas of human nature. Death, to them, consisted neither of “soul wakefulness” nor of “soul sleep” (that is, if by “soul” you mean what most people mean – a non-physical “self”). Rather, they saw […]
The Scripture Doctrine of Materialism by Thomas Cooper
THE SCRIPTURE DOCTRINE OF MATERIALISM. ▬▬▬▬ BY THOMAS COOPER ▬▬▬▬ PHILADELPHIA: 1823. Website Publisher’s Note: While Thomas Cooper was more minimalistic in his views than are we, we commend this tract to you as a clear and persuasive argument in favor of the proposition that a central tenet of Jesus’s teachings was philosophical materialism. Who […]