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Our brains are supercomputers and are estimated to perform up to to 10^28 floating point operations per second (FLOPS). That count is equal to roughly half of all atoms in the known universe. Our brains are highly efficient compared to supercomputers, which require significantly more power to achieve similar performance levels, which in turn require an elaborate infrastructure of electricity generation.
Our brains do all this with just 3 lbs. of meat. We have a 3lb. meat computer that quickly becomes goo after we die, but not so with your soul/spirit.
I think perhaps some atheists, feeling unable to rest their hope on anything because they fear it will lead to disappointment and sadness, somehow resent seeing feelings of hope and assurance, religiously based, in others and so, want to fight or push against it...
Perhaps. Or, maye they feel threatened by the prospect of being conscious forever apart from God and it requires a lot of effort to suppress what God's Word says. .
Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God Who gave it (Ecclesiastes 12:7).
Who knoweth the spirit of man that goeth upward? (Ecclesiastes 3:21).
As Stephen’s body went to its death, earth was receding but Heaven’s gate approaching. He knew that he was entering into another sphere of the living. He prayed: “Lord Jesus, receive my spirit” (Acts 7:59). This disciple of Christ did not seek to postpone death or to fight it off. His murderers held no fear for him. He remembered the words of Jesus: “Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do”
In Christ’s account of the rich man and Lazarus we have the matter summed up and settled that the soul is conscious after death. Both men died and were buried. Though their bodies were in the graves, each of them was alive and conscious. The rich man in Hell could see, hear, speak, and feel (Luke 16:19-31).
By far the formost docrtine of Watchtower is the rejection of the new covenant "for the forgiveness of sins" Jesus offered to "whosoever" at Mt. 26: 27-28. Probably equal to this heresy is the teaching that consciousness ceases when your body expires. This teaching removes healthy curiosity (and gravity) about where a person might want to spend eternity. Without that, the self-resurrection and offers of safe passage that Jesus presented are almost meaningless.
Also, both JW's and atheists do not believe that there will be a judgment after death.
it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: - Hebres 9: 27
The word of God says that Jesus Christ will judge every person who has ever lived (Acts 10:42).
Believers will be judged by Jesus where they will fully understand the entirety of His extravagant grace while fully grasping the depth of their depravity.
1 Corinthians 4:5, Paul writes of Jesus disclosing the hidden motives in believers’ hearts. In other words, peoples' supression of reality will replace convenient fantasies.
Jesus will expose the true nature of a believer’s heart to him or her.
But I tell you that everyone will have to give account on the day of judgment for every empty word they have spoken. For by your words you will be acquitted, and by your words you will be condemned.” Matthew 12:36-37
I think this is likely what is driving atheist and JW polemics against Christians.
