084. QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 38.

QUESTIONS ON CHAPTER 38.

1. Upon what is the principal objection to the doctrine of the soul’s immortality founded?

2. What Jewish sect were materialists?

3. When did this heresy originate in the Christian Church?

4. What is the theory of materialism?

5. How do we gain a knowledge of the existence of the soul?

6. How are matter and spirit proved to be essentially different by their respective properties?

7. How is it proved that matter is not intelligent?

8. How is it proved that the material substance of the brain is not possessed of memory?

9. To what form of skepticism does materialism lead?

10. What does materialism teach as to the state of the soul when the body dies?

11. Upon what is man’s proper personal identity grounded?

12. Why is the conscious existence of the soul, during the interim between death and the resurrection, necessary to man’s immortality?