So answer me this too, if God is going to store all your memories, what about the bad memories? Is He going to restore only good memories?
Why wouldn't God restore all their memories?
What about your negative tendencies? Is God going to obliterate those, and if so why did He allow them in the first place in your current body?
Such negative tendencies are the result of the sin we've all inherited from our very first parents, Adam and Eve. (cf. Psalm 51:5; Romans 5:12; 7:14-25) Since everything God does is perfect all who are re-created will be free from all of its deleterious effects.
You are standing all alone in Christendom with a theory of God storing people in His Mind at death, with which few other Christians would agree.
As I've already demonstrated with the Scriptures, this is what Christ taught and all Christians align with Christ's teachings.
mm: Why wouldn't God restore all their memories?
jc: Perhaps you are very young or have had no bad experiences, but I think it is more likely you are opposing me only for the sake of opposition, and failing to think realistically about the tragedies in life. You are here arguing that people should remember all of their suffering in clear detail, no matter how painful or horrible. I'd have thought that to be a type of hell, and God's mercy would be in forgetting.
mm: Such negative tendencies are the result of the sin we've all inherited from our very first parents, Adam and Eve. (cf. Psalm 51:5; Romans 5:12; 7:14-25) Since everything God does is perfect all who are re-created will be free from all of its deleterious effects.
jc: Ah, so it is your theory the negative tendencies will not be restored. The mechanism of purification you are proposing is that God will remember all aspects about the personality, but will reinstate the personality after a period of annihilation without its negative side. I'd call this the “magic wand effect.”
Yet, this is indeed what Christians expect, in varied ways. Some pray to God, “Purify me,” and are sure God will be compelled to respond to such an earnest and holy plea! You'll have to admit you have only poetry to back up your story, and though I'd shudder at the “annihilation” part, who am I to stand in the way of any human attaining purity? If you want purity, though, why don't you try to get it right now? Are you claiming this is an additional flaw of the fall, that you not only do not want purity, but rejoice in your negative tendencies (wickedness)? Yet Christianity presents no mechanisms for seeking purity.
mm: As I've already demonstrated with the Scriptures, this is what Christ taught and all Christians align with Christ's teachings.
jc: You have not done so! You said Christ mentions that only those in memorial tombs would be resurrected, but then added
your private interpretation not shared by other Christians, that, “In effect, this means all those who Jehovah God has chosen to keep in his memory will be recreated.” I've asked a question no one asked before, and your mind is operating extempore, writing a story by imagination while motivated for opposition. If this is not so, show me other places this theory exists.
The issue of the soul has been a gray area in Christianity, and no one has scrutinized it because no one really cares. This is a proof of what I've said, if the soul exists men feel no living connection to it. You obviously feel none, eager to deny it and submit to annihilation of your being! Further here, it can be shown each Christian harbors his own unique brand of Christianity, dissimilar in fine points to the others. On a macro scale the arguing sects form, each convinced they alone are aligned with Christ.