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Question 1. When talking about John Hick - thoughts on there being a couple of areas that have inadequate defenses, like the understanding of why evil or suffering is experienced and the determination of the completion of life. They are inadequate because they cannot reconcile the purpose of why people suffer and what leads to a complete life, which are important areas to recognize because what it the purpose of believing in God if not to explain those areas?
Question 2. What about both the Old and New Testaments discuss how everyone's soul will be reunited with a new body that doesn't perish like the physical one we have now?
Question 3. What about "continuity of memory, complete similarity of bodily features, including hair and eye coloration and stomach contents, and also of beliefs, habits, and mental properties." If this is true, it means that a replica of a person can appear with the exact same characteristics, mental and physical, at any place in the world at the same time. This also means that if someone dies, and the exact same person reappears somewhere else, and that person is seen by past loved ones, they will not believe the person had died. I don't think this has ever happened and I think it would be very well-known if it had. Based on knowledge and history, this has never been true since people cannot appear in locations at the same time another person disappears. We are all born as babies, not as grown people. That's why I don't think this example clearly explains the concept of resurrection. I do think that the person who died can be "reborn", but in a completely different form. They would also have to be reborn again at birth thus completing the cycle of life.