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Humans are essentially distinct from animals

Humans are essentially distinct from animals: They have self-consciousness, moral freedom, and they clearly are capable of abstract thought and religion. . . . The most important thing about humans is that God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth” (Genesis 1.27).

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(Yale's most popular course.) Dr. Shelley Kagan says, “There is no soul; we are just machines”; thus, “death is no mysterious than the fact that your lamp or your computer can break, or that any machine will eventually fail.” He underscores, “death will be the end—full stop.” Is it true that we are just machines? Is it true that that death will be the end, the full stop? I think, obviously, we are not just machines, and there must be something after death that makes life meaningful.

Blessed be the name of the Lord

After Job loses all his material possessions and children through various calamities, though deeply grieved, he worships God by saying, “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return there; the LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD,” and does not sin or charge God with wrong (Job 1.21-2).

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