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    It is not the case that Personal identity over time requires psychological or material continuity, and a resurrected body assembled from dispersed matter breaks both chains.

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    • 1.If psychological continuity is what matters, God could preserve mental patterns through resurrection without material continuity.
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    • 2.We lose and replace most body cells naturally; identity survives this. Why should resurrection-reassembly differ in principle?
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    • 3.Identity might depend on spatiotemporal continuity or divine intentionality rather than unbroken causal chains—both compatible with resurrection.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Psychological continuity requires unbroken causal chains; resurrection from dispersed atoms breaks causal history entirely.
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    • 2.A reassembled body is materially distinct from the original; identity requires continuity of the same matter or causal process.
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    • 3.We intuitively distinguish the original person from a perfect duplicate; resurrection produces a duplicate, not revival.
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