Human consciousness is the result of brain functions. When the functions cease, so does consciousness. Case rested.

You are, of course, absolutely correct-from a physical, humanistic perspective. The brain waves cease, the heart stops, the blood stops coursing through the veins. And the body is dead.

The philosophy of materialism indicates that everything is material. Man, himself, is only a material machine. There is no soul or spiritual essence in this man-machine.

Materialists believe in empiricism, the idea that knowledge must be restricted to those physically detected bodies that can be perceived by our senses. We cannot know non-material things because we cannot physically detect them. It is a waste of time to talk about God, the soul, the inner self because these concepts cannot be reduced to material objects that can be measured.

God's word, the Bible, reveals that there is more to man than the physical body and blood. There is an inner being, or inner person--nephesh in Hebrew—that survives the death of the body. This essence or inner person is revealed to be conscious beyond the death of the body. This cannot be measured.

We all have faith in one philosophy or another. I believe the evidence will support the Bible as the revealed word of God.

Jews believe there is no afterlife

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