Christianity - A Journey from Facts to Fiction — Page 88
88 Christianity – A Journey from Facts to Fiction so that its true nature is clearly understood. In this scenario, one does not have to conceive of the essential reconstruction of the human brain to provide a seat for the human mind; we need only to imagine Jesus as revisiting a skull filled with the decaying remains of the brain of his former human host The deeper we look into this problem, more problems raise their heads at every newly probed level. Man’s mind requires a brain as a tool of his thought process. As far as the functions of the physical body are concerned, if we believe that the mind is a separate entity which lives by itself, then this would imply that the mind and the soul are the same thing. By whatever name we refer to it, whether we call it mind or soul, it may be considered as capable of living separately even when its relationship with the human brain is severed. But if the mind or the soul is required to govern the human body, or to be influenced by what goes on in its physical realms then there has to be a profound bondage between the mind and the brain, or the soul and the brain, otherwise they simply cannot influence, motivate or control the physical, mental or sentimental processes in man. Perhaps this is not debatable. From this we are led to another serious problem: does the so- called Divine Son need to control a body through a brain? And does he depend on a physical brain for his thought processes? If he transcends all human limitations and if he has an independent system of thought processes, unique to him, with no parallel in the entire universe of his creation, then the return of the soul of God to the human body along with that of the mind of man reconstructs a bizarre situation of a dual personality with two