You're listening to the podcast Think Biblically, conversations on faith and culture.

I'm your host Scott Ray, professor of Christian ethics here at Talbot School

of Theology at Biola University. And I'm your co-host Sean McDowell, an author,

speaker, and apologetics professor also at Talbot School Theology. Thank you so much for joining us.

We're here with my longtime colleague and dear friend Dr. J.P. Morland

recognized in the last couple of years as one of the 50

greatest living philosophers today. So quite an honor and well deserved with a

litany of publications and speaking opportunities that would take us probably the length of the whole

podcast just to list those.

So we're really glad to have you with us.

He's an expert on basically all things apologetics and Christian philosophy.

And we have a number of questions,

J.P. for you today, most of what you've written

has to recently has to do with the soul

and the existence of the soul.

You've written a lot about how,

especially how the neurosciences today

intersect with our teaching on the soul. Why is it so important that we talk

about the soul today given what the neuroscientences have basically assigned most of the functions that the scripture

describes as pertaining to the soul, they've assigned to the brain.

What's so important about the soul today? Well, it's really good to be with you both and thanks for having me.

I think there are three reasons this is important.

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