... belonged to a dualist school of thought. A dualist approach to mind and body argues that the body is contingent and therefore destined for decay, but the mind is associated with higher realities such as truth and goodness, therefore it is immortal. Jordan, Lockyer and Tate mentioned that this belief that the soul continues after death is known as the immortality of the soul. This view was derived from Plato's theory of ideas which he called forms. In 1 Corinthians 15:40 the evangelist states "There are also heavenly bodies and there are earthly bodies; but the splendor of the heavenly bodies is of one kind, and the splendor of the earthly bodies is another". In Drane's commentary of the New Testament he explains this dualist approach by stating there is a difference as well as continuity between the earthly and heavenly body. He uses the analogy of Paul, like Galen, ...

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