Are Humans More Than a Body?

Do humans have souls? At first blush, this may seem like just an abstract philosophical riddle, but the soul and the afterlife go together. If we are merely a body, then death, it would seem, is the end of us. So, this is considerably more than a mental exercise.

Demonstrating that human beings have an “unseeable” component of themselves, might seem an impossible task, but as Travis Pelletier shows, there is an abundance of evidence, from Near Death experiences to the cohesiveness of consciousness. This essay makes the comprehensive argument that humans are more than a body.

Paulie was gone, but many questions remained. How could this happen? If God existed, how could He allow such a pointless death? Was there any point to Paulie’s short, joyful life? What hope was there for Paulie or his family? And, most importantly, will Sherry ever see her son again?

Whether or not Sherry can hope to see Paulie again hangs on one question: was Paulie just a body? If Paulie was nothing more than his body, then when his body died, the little boy ceased to exist. The same could be said for us; if humans are just bodies, then regardless of what any person does, their story ends the same way: in nothingness. Oblivion turns out to be the end for everyone. But what if Paulie was more than mere matter? If so, then Paulie’s story may not end in the bathtub of Sherry’s house.