Man and Sin by Piet Schoonenberg (1964) 1.3K2

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[We can ask the question: When we die, what is there to judge?  The body cannot be judged.  It is dead. Re-animation would explicitly violate His Own Will that we be “who we are,” that is, “creatures”.  Death goes with the territory. Creatures do not die then come back to life.

One’s actions could be judged, but these actions are events in the past, therefore cannot be held responsible. “Responsibility” implies “a thing that can be held accountable”.  The actions were events, not things, so cannot be held accountable.

What about one’s thinkgroup and its associated denials of lawessential?

Well, let us perform a thought experiment and suppose that, due to various bureaucratic machinations, God waits about 80 years (4 generations) before rendering judgment on any individual.  Imagine defending your bohemian lifestyle and cooperation with the eugenics movement, today, in 2012, when you died in 1932.  This thinkgroup and denial of lawessential are a dead as you are.  Time renders us all parochial.

Well, now that we eliminated actions2, lawessential3 and thinkgroup3, what is left?

Only the specified conscience1 and trained (but still natural) dispositions1 remain as “things that can be held responsible”; that is, “judged”.

Are these not the characteristics that animate the body?  Do these not comprise the soul and bring the person to life? ]