tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20930767.post1304151490560964432..comments2023-06-01T14:08:49.977+00:00Comments on Confessions of a Doubting Thomas: Family completeness in heaven...?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20930767.post-55494266689372862352015-02-26T09:33:04.418+00:002015-02-26T09:33:04.418+00:00True. But if God doesn't attach a soul to the ...True. But if God doesn't attach a soul to the body until very late in term or after birth, then all the evangelical arguments against abortion need to be dropped. Evangelicals seem to think (and I used to think) that the moment of conception is the only dividing line that makes any sense for the creation of a soul.<br /><br />Reincarnation? Well maybe on average you have to go through being reincarnated as a miscarriage three times for every life you live? Of course the law of averages and the law of large numbers mean that there are some poor souls out there who would have spent their entire existence going from one miscarried 'life' to another. Urgh.Ricky Carvelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17975085318645232701noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20930767.post-71985118156636408922015-02-26T09:02:54.869+00:002015-02-26T09:02:54.869+00:00Your last paragraph seems like it would also be a ...Your last paragraph seems like it would also be a cast-iron disproof of reincarnation. But is it so obvious? If you regard the soul as a property of the body, maybe. But if you regard it as independent of the body, presumably God can create it and attach it to the body whenever he chooses.David Evanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13590531184544289491noreply@blogger.com