Director Roger Nygard traveled the world asking theologians, scientists, skeptics, and everyday people 85 tough questions to try to understand The Nature of Existence! Now that he’s asked the experts, it’s YOUR TURN! To offer your own insights on today’s question, “What purpose does a brain serve if a soul can exist and feel without it?“, Leave a Reply below!
Irrelevant, and rather silly question (in my opinion).
This question exemplifies the gulf between a scientific understanding of the natural world, and peoples’ supernatural hankerings for what they think would be a nice idea.
The closest thing to a “soul” or a “spirit” is your conscious faculty. Your mind. Your consciousness can’t exist without a body, and your body can’t continue to exist without a consciousness. The former is a ghost, and the latter is a zombie.
There’s no dichotomy between body and mind. They’re the same integration.
Angels exist without a body, God the Father and the Holy Spirit are not corporeal. The Son acquired a body through His incarnation given to Him by the ascent of Mary. We, as man, are a bridge between the corporeal and incorporeal, our personhood (soul) expresses itself in the material world and the material world gives us an order and reveals our place in it. For us there can be no other way. The body and its particulars does not contain us, we house ourselves within.
a brain serves to believe that a soul to exist, for if we didn’t believe, we would be in the exact same position than if we did