I was talking to one of the engineers who works here and we got into the subject of the resurrection. He stated that a resurrected body is not really the person who dies, but a clone and hence not the same person. He said it was no different than a person who is about to die who makes a copy of himself (with the same thoughts and memories).
He said it was similar to the concept of the dematerializer transporter on Star Trek. He said the body that gets dematerialized is gone forever and the one that rematerializes is a new one who is an exact clone, but not the same person. He cites an episode where a guy gets beamed up but during the process a malfunction occurs in the memory banks and when the restoration occurs, two guys come out and they are clones of one another and there is no way to tell which is the "real" one.
He says the same about the resuurection, if it were true. He said that if God recreates your body from his memory, he is in fact making a clone of the person who died. He stated that according to what he knows about JW teachings, the only ones who will be the same are the ones who live through Armageddon. Everyone else will be a copy of the original.
He added that is why folks who want to be resurrected by science preserve either the whole body or the head because that is the only way the original "person" can live on.
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