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What is a soul?

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Percy
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12-25-2006 7:35 AM 		Reply to: Message 108 by jar
12-24-2006 11:41 AM

Re: What is a soul
jar writes:
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Imagine a continuum of belief, a spectrum of belief. At one end of that spectrum you might find those theists who are absolutely sure they know their beliefs are true. Way over at the other end of the spectrum are the atheists who absolutely know their beliefs are true.
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How about a two dimensional space with axes of certainty and degree of theism:
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Do people generally agree with these placements? And where would people place themselves on this graph?
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--Percy
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Percy
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12-26-2006 6:13 AM 		Reply to: Message 112 by anastasia
12-25-2006 11:26 PM

Re: What is a soul
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Interesting idea here from you and jar.
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And I like Jar's idea that the points should be regions.
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I can't imagine any theist denoms consenting to be termed 'uncertain'...
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Think of the "certainty" axis as less about degree of certainty and more about the number of things a denomination is certain about. For example, evangelicals and Catholics are probably roughly equally certain about things like the passion and the resurrection, but about things like evolution, the age of the earth, the great flood and so forth the evangelicals are very certain, the Catholics maybe not so much.
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