Uploaded September 2021 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Hey, thanks for watching! My #shorts aim to tackle popular issues in Christian apologetics and theology with simplicity and brevity. I'm passionate to bring atheists, skeptics, and theists together to debate and talk about the question of God and ultimate reality. Good philosophical arguments matter, but people matter even more.
Some people believe that you as a human being are nothing but matter, 100% physical and that the idea of an immaterial soul is superstition.
If that’s true, it has some rather weird implications: It means that after cutting your hair you’re not identical anymore to who you were before you cut your hair. You see, if who you are is defined exclusively in terms of matter it means that as your physical make-up changes, the “you” changes.
Also, consider that your body renews all its cells every 7-10 years. If you’re just matter, this means that you become a different person every decade. In fact, our physicality constantly changes, we lose around 30,000 skin cells every minute which means that you are now not the person anymore who clicked on this video 30 seconds ago.
Now, clearly, this is absurd. But while it’s absurd it’s nevertheless the consistent outworking of saying that we’re nothing but matter.
Hey, thanks for watching! My #shorts aim to tackle popular issues in Christian apologetics and theology with simplicity and brevity. I'm passionate to bring atheists, skeptics, and theists together to debate and talk about the question of God and ultimate reality. Good philosophical arguments matter, but people matter even more.
Some people believe that you as a human being are nothing but matter, 100% physical and that the idea of an immaterial soul is superstition.
If that’s true, it has some rather weird implications: It means that after cutting your hair you’re not identical anymore to who you were before you cut your hair. You see, if who you are is defined exclusively in terms of matter it means that as your physical make-up changes, the “you” changes.
Also, consider that your body renews all its cells every 7-10 years. If you’re just matter, this means that you become a different person every decade. In fact, our physicality constantly changes, we lose around 30,000 skin cells every minute which means that you are now not the person anymore who clicked on this video 30 seconds ago.
Now, clearly, this is absurd. But while it’s absurd it’s nevertheless the consistent outworking of saying that we’re nothing but matter.
