... when arguing for the immortality of the soul and the belief in it, are too narrow. Christian belief and its eternal life language? "Eternal life is not to be equated with endless life." (Phillips quoting Sutherland 1970:42). "Geach says that 'the question of immortality cannot even arise, unless it implied bodily survival after death.'" (Phillips quoting Geach 1970:43). Are we only interested, as a society, upon whether the body can survive after death, or is there something more? A dualistic view of humans, body and soul. Is this view true? Phillips presumes that those who subscribe to this dualistic view are not "free from the dualistic views which they attack in their opponents?" (Phillips 1970:43). Flew pushes that this dualistic view is flawed, if we meet a person we do not just meet their fleshy cell or their divine substance but we meet the sum of all their parts. The ...

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