Resolved: There is no afterlife.

Ok. You say I haven't proved anything you said false. Well now I am going to have to disagree with you. You state there is no life after death, I say there is. The bible states that when people die they go to either heaven or hell, thus giving them eternal LIFE. You don't believe in the bible, but everything in it saying Jesus is coming back is happening today. Now to refute your five points: 1.If there is no consciousness after death, there is no afterlife. (by definition)- Okay here is your definition. Afterlife: conscious life after death, where a part of, or essence of, soul of, or mind of an individual, which carries with it and confers personal identity, survives the death of the body of this world and this lifetime, by natural or supernatural means. I have no argument with this definition. 2.Consciousness in an emergent property of a functional brain- this is both true and untrue. By saying this you are saying when people fall unconscious their brain ceases to function. By stating this everyone unconscious is basically dead. 3.Hence, if there is no functional brain, there is no consciousness- this is not true. The bible states that when someone dies, their body decays, but their mind lives on. 4.When someone dies, there is no functional brain- the brain as we see it now decomposes, but the mind and consciousness lives on. 5.Hence, when someone dies, there is no consciousness- refuted above 6.Therefore, there is no afterlife- refuted below To refute 6, I will give you biblical and human references. •1 Corinthians 15:12, 13 - If there is no such thing as life after death, then Jesus could not have been raised. •1 Corinthians 15:13-15 - If there is no resurrection, the Bible writers are not trustworthy •Luke 20:27-39 - Sadducee's denied resurrection because, like modern materialists, they denied the existence of spirits (Acts 23:8). Jesus responded by quoted God's statement, "I AM the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob." God said this after these men had died. This proves that "all live to God" - even dead people. Though men may die physically, to God they still live. As with the rich man and Lazarus (Luke 16:19-31), their spirits continue in a conscious state. •Frederick Myers was a founder of the Society for Psychical Research. Within a few weeks of Myers' death in 1901, he began to communicate through different direct writing mediums in England, the United States and India, sending information about what happens when we die. His scripts made no sense on their own but the mediums were told to forward them to a central location where they fitted together like a jigsaw. They were signed, "Myers." More than three thousand scripts were transmitted over thirty years, some of them more than forty typed pages long. Read more about these "cross-correspondences" and Myers' discoveries about the afterlife - plus read the full books, here online, written by Geraldine Cummins, one of Myers' correspondents… •"Oh, if I could only leave you the proof that I continue. Yet another attempt to run the blockade - to strive to get a message through. How can I make your hand docile enough - how can I convince them? I am trying, amid unspeakable difficulties. It is impossible for me to know how much of what I send reaches you. I feel as if I had presented my credentials - reiterated the proofs of my identity in a wearisomely repetitive manner. The nearest simile I can find to express the difficulty of sending a message is that I appear to be standing behind a sheet of frosted glass, which blurs sight and deadens sound, dictating feebly to a reluctant and somewhat obtuse secretary. A feeling of terrible impotence burdens me. Oh it is a dark road." – Myers after his death. Here is proof of life after death. Myers, the bible. All historical facts. And all happened. thanks www.trans4mind.com/spiritual/myers2.html http://www.gdcoc.org...