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Welcome to Every Thought Captive. I’m Phil Steiger, Pastor at Quail Lake Community Church.

Recently, US News and World Report ran a large article on human consciousness called, “Is There Room for the Soul.” The author recognized what is at stake right off the bat when he struggled with the idea that the human mind is nothing but a biological add-on. He notes, “There is, indeed, something troubling, if not downright offensive, about the effort to reduce human consciousness to the operations of a 3-pound chunk of wrinkled brain tissue.”

The general trend in science has been to argue that humans are nothing but physical matter, and that we do not have things like souls or minds. The Christian position, on the other hand, has always been that we are body and soul. Part of what it means to be created in the image of God is that our souls and minds are not identical with our bodies and brains. The author is right; it is troubling if we are nothing more than bags of chemicals.

This has been Every Thought Captive, a Christian worldview minute sponsored by Quail Lake Community Church. For more information, please visit, quaillake.org.