Who counts as a human person?

The severely mentally challenged, the elderly person at the end of Alzheimer's disease,

the unborn?

On what basis do we decide this critical question?

How do we know that we have a soul? Hasn't

science the neuroscientists decided that all of what the soul does actually

occurs in the brain? Let's these questions and more today with our very

special guest Dr. J.P. Morlan, our Talbot

colleague and the co-author of an exciting new book called

The Substance of Consciousness.

I'm your host Scott Ray and this is Think Biblical,

a podcast from tablet school theology

at Biola University.

So welcome again, you're a regular on the podcast, great to have you with us and congratulations

on the new book.

Sort of sounds like a bit of your Magnum Opus.

Well, thank you.

First of all, my brother, it's always good to be with you

and on this great podcast.

It is my Magnum Opus, meaning it's probably the culmination of decades of thinking and research and work, and I have summarized and tried to make a case that we are souls, the soul is real,

and that we're human persons because we have a soul that's in God's image and that's the purpose of the book really.

So I think, yeah, the Magnumopus sort of implies that this is the consummation of a lot of your life's

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