AGING THROUGH THE ETERNAL NOW
AGING THROUGH THE ETERNAL NOW

THE IMMORTALITY OF THE SOUL AND ITS DEFIANCE AGAINST AGING

Summary/Abstract: This article is about why an how the soul and mind do not age or change in the same way a the body and brain. Because the coul and body are distinct and separate substances, they must ultimately belong to diffrent realities, and because of this the soul cannot adhere to the rules of a reality of which does not control it. The reality of the body is temporal, and therefore it will agead die, whereas the reality of the soul is eternal and will not age and die.This article is about why and how the soul and mind do not age or change in the same way as the body and brain. Because the soul and body are distinct and separate substances, they must ultimately belong to different realities, and because of this the soul cannot adhere to the rules of a reality of which does not control it. The reality of the body is temporal, and therefore it will age and die, whereas the reality of the soul is eternal and will not age and die. Further to this, because the mind is a faculty of the soul, it necessarily will not age and die like the brain, but it will be effected both positively and negatively by the brain during the reality of the temporal life, unlike the soul. Because the mind needs the brain in order to think and understand in the temporal reality, then it stands to reason that the mind will appear to degenerate like the brain, but in the non-temporal reality the mind remains unaffected. Because of these things, there must also be a realisation that reason is the domain of temporality, whereas revelation is the domain of eternity. Because of this, we will conclude that reason will ultimately fail and revelation will not. The body also needs nourishment, as does the soul, but this is different for each. The body and the soul need nourishment from their own kind; ashes and dust for the body, and God for the soul. The body is made from ashes and dust; the soul is made in God’s image. The changing of the created function of something is what determines its continued existence, and while the body changes, the soul does not. The use of tense-laden grammar is characteristic of the temporal reality, but tense cannot exist in eternity where there is a constant ‘now’. It is demonstrated that these grammar concepts do not even exist in temporality, as there is no past or future ‘existing’. The present, being the only true existing tense, is also the only truth we can assert about the soul whose created function is to live. It exists through the eternal now, while the body ages and dies in temporality.

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