The Spiritual Dimension of Existence

This work explores the Spiritual Dimension of Existence to determine what implications can be deduced about the afterlife that are supported by and do not contradict the Scriptures. The Spiritual Dimension of Existence throughout this work refers to what lies beyond the physical dimension of existence, yet governs all that transpires within it. It is Mind, the reality of thinking, thought, memory, meaning, knowledge, truth, value, consciousness, and a host of other mental properties and capacities that together comprise the image of God as male and female human beings. God endowed His creature Adam with mental or spiritual powers to the extent that one would not err to think of man as essentially mind (nous) housed in a body of flesh and bone. While naturalistic science attempts to reduce mind to the functions of brain matter alone, it offers no hope of creating mind. The attempt itself makes use of the properties of mind proving that the spiritual dimension of existence is not some physical aspect of the material known as brain matter. If mind is nothing more than the epiphenomenon of complex and complicated relations between brain matter and other parts of a body, it still remains something that cannot be measured, stored, weighed, or tested as any ordinary physical object. Mind is not a thing, it is a spiritual reality, invisible yet necessary for any knowledge of the physical dimension of existence as well as the spiritual. The methodology in this exploration of the spiritual dimension of existence is one framed in the language of a thought experiment. Given or assuming thatsuch and suchis the case, what follows logically from the premises? What are some of the logical implications of premises assumed to be true for a project that seeks to establish truths about the spiritual dimension? In other words, what follows logically and biblically about thought and life for existence now and for eternity. The reader will find here no attempt to argue, persuade, or convince anyone about the reality of an afterlife or