Summary: New research findings in Science and Medicine now support the Bible's statement that we have a soul, not just a body. People must know this so they can make correct decisions about where they will spend eternity.

YOU HAVE A SOUL

OPENING ILLUSTRATION

Get 4 kids to front. Turn off lights. Shine flashlights thru hands. You can see the bones inside the skin. “WE HAVE SOMETHING INSIDE!” We know this also because of Xrays and ultrasounds. But today I want to talk about something else we have inside: a SOUL & SPIRIT. HOW DO WE KNOW WE DO?

1. BIBLE SAYS SO. 1 Thess. 5:23; “23 Now may the God of peace Himself sanctify you completely; and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ” NKJV. We have NON-MATERIAL PARTS – MIND, WILL, EMOTIONS. They’re not physical, but not totally spiritual either.

2. PHYSICS PhDs study of Quantum traces of the soul/spirit. Scientists say they have FOUND PROOF OF THE HUMAN SOUL (1-18-16).* In article, “Does the Soul Exist? Evidence Says ‘Yes’” (12-21-11). The results...suggest. that a part of the mind – the soul – is immortal and exists outside of time and space.” [Psychology Today]

a. Particle/Wave both exist, share same data in different fields.

b. Quantum mechanics (physics) laws apply to every realm (biological as well as chemical, etc.)

c. They found the central nervous system is “phase encoded,” its information exists in the brain and also as a consciousness. So that even if the body dies, the consciousness will continue to exist beyond the body/time.*

3. MEDICAL DOCTORS have recorded 10,000 cases where people who died in hospitals could, after resuscitation, tell the doctor what was going on around them while they were dead.

In the article, “Clinical Evidence That Life Continues After Physical Death” Mark Pitstick, says, “Scientific, clinical and firsthand experience evidence indicates that you survive after your earthly body dies.” The evidence has been gathered by medical doctors and clinical psychologists. Many people considered clinically dead have been aware of events occurring in the resuscitation room, adjacent areas, outside, and even on top of the hospital. Ten thousand evidentiary NDE cases have been documented. Particularly convincing are the NDEs reported by those who are BLIND. In Books of the Dead, Stan Grof M.D., “… reported cases where individuals, who were blind because of medically confirmed organic damage to their optical system, could at the time of clinical death, see the environment. These....are more than the hallucinatory....”

In Maurice Rawling’s “To Hell & Back,” he confirmed the following common experiences of NDEs:

a. LIFE REVIEW. Experienced a searching review of the morality of their lives actions and the impact those actions had on others.

b. EXPOSURE TO LIGHT. When they came before the "Figure of Light," his presence alone exposed/ made clear what was right & wrong about their lives.

c. ACCOUNTABILITY. Each person felt responsible for their actions; and the subjects universally felt regret and remorse for the wrongs they’d done.

d. 20% of adults perceived a threat of eternal punishment for their wrongs. Being sent back, their final destiny was pushed back to some future time. Almost all of them had a transformation of their lives.

IMPLICATIONS: Science and Medicine now confirm the Bible!

1. You WILL live beyond this life (and death), forever.

2. You WILL answer to God for how you act/think, and how you live your life.

3. Jesus said in Mt. 16:26 (Mk. 8:36), “For what profit is it to a man if he gains the whole world, and loses his own soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?”

IT MATTERS WHAT YOU SAY, DO, AND THINK, EVEN IF THERE’S NO ONE AROUND. Because God is watching you! The best idea is to live in such a way as to please God.

PASCAL’S WAGER (1623-1662):

“If you live like God exists, and it turns out that He doesn’t exist, you’ll just suffer a small amount of loss (a few illicit pleasures over your 70 years). But if you live like God doesn’t exist –and you’re wrong and He DOES EXIST, then you will suffer an infinite loss for all eternity." CONCLUSION? It’s better to wager that God does exist, because the losses are so disproportional.

EXPIRATION DATES (freshness). Almost everything has them because not many things can last indefinitely.

YOU HAVE AN EXPIRATION DATE. You may be young, but you don’t know how long you’ll live. I’ve buried babies, children, teenagers, and young adults.

Hebrews 9:27 says, “It is appointed for men to die once, but after this the judgment.”

This verse tells us we get one chance, one lifetime, to be saved. If we don’t say yes to Jesus, no other chance is promised us. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE TO SAY YES TO JESUS WHILE WE STILL CAN.

PRAYER

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* The Soul and Quantum Physics

JULIA Afterlife Studies, Consciousness, Evidence for Survival After Death scientists on the soul, the soul in quantum mechanics 28

Physicists Claim that Consciousness Lives

in Quantum State After Death

Does quantum mechanics predict the existence of a spiritual “soul”? Testimonials from prominent physics researchers from institutions such as Cambridge University, Princeton University, and the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich claim that quantum mechanics predicts some version of “life after death.” They assert that a person may possess a body-soul duality that is an extension of the wave-particle duality of subatomic particles.

Wave-particle duality, a fundamental concept of quantum mechanics, proposes that elementary particles, such as photons and electrons, possess the properties of both particles and waves. These physicists claim that they can possibly extend this theory to the soul-body dichotomy. If there is a quantum code for all things, living and dead, then there is an existence after death (speaking in purely physical terms). Dr. Hans-Peter Dürr, former head of the Max Planck Institute for Physics in Munich, posits that, just as a particle “writes” all of its information on its wave function, the brain is the tangible “floppy disk” on which we save our data, and this data is then “uploaded” into the spiritual quantum field. Continuing with this analogy, when we die the body, or the physical disk, is gone, but our consciousness, or the data on the computer, lives on.

“What we consider the here and now, this world, it is actually just the material level that is comprehensible. The beyond is an infinite reality that is much bigger. Which this world is rooted in. In this way, our lives in this plane of existence are encompassed, surrounded, by the afterworld already… The body dies but the spiritual quantum field continues. In this way, I am immortal,” says Dürr.

Dr. Christian Hellwig of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, found evidence that information in our central nervous system is phase encoded, a type of coding that allows multiple pieces of data to occupy the same time. He said, “Our thoughts, our will, our consciousness and our feelings show properties that could be referred to as spiritual properties…No direct interaction with the known fundamental forces of natural science, such as gravitation, electromagnetic forces, etc. can be detected in the spiritual. On the other hand, however, these spiritual properties correspond exactly to the characteristics that distinguish the extremely puzzling and wondrous phenomena in the quantum world.”

Physicist Professor Robert Jahn of Princeton University concluded that if consciousness can exchange information in both directions with the physical environment, then it can be attributed with the same “molecular binding potential” as physical objects, meaning that it must also follow the tenets of quantum mechanics. Quantum physicist David Bohm, a student and friend of Albert Einstein, was of a similar opinion. He stated, “The results of modern natural sciences only make sense if we assume an inner, uniform, transcendent reality that is based on all external data and facts. The very depth of human consciousness is one of them.”

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