Some Issues to Ponder On

SOME ISSUES TO PONDER ON These cells are not like the bricks of a building that remain there as long as the building exists. Instead, vast numbers of cells die daily, and our food enables new cells to take their place. This continuous dying of the human body cells proves that, on average, a whole human body changes into an entirely new one every ten years. It is as if ten years ago, the hand with which I had signed an agreement is no longer a part of my body, yet the agreement that ‘my earlier hand’ signed remains my agreement! Despite the change in my body, the inner ‘me’ remains in its actual condition as before. My knowledge, memory, desires, habits, and thoughts remain intact. That is why someone has rightly said, “Personality is changelessness in change.” (The Urantia Book) If the body’s death were the final extinguishing of life, the same ‘death’ happens, in a way, every day with a person who is still considered alive. Consider a 60-year-old man whom we see walking in front of us. In the sense of the cells of his body, he has already ‘died’ six times! Now, even if undergoing this bodily