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    It is not the case that The central logical problem for materialist versions of the resurrection is personal identity.

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    • 1.Personal identity over time already requires no continuous physical substance, as van Inwagen's 'falling elevator' cases show bodies are replaced constantly.
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    • 2.If ordinary survival through sleep or unconsciousness tolerates spatio-temporal gaps in physical continuity, resurrection gaps differ only in degree, not kind.
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    • 3.Peter van Inwagen's 'reassembly' model proposes God preserves the numerically identical matter, dissolving the gap problem without abandoning materialism.
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    • 1.Psychological continuity theories (Locke, Parfit) ground personal identity in memory and psychological connectedness, not unbroken physical continuity.
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    • 2.A resurrected person with the correct psychological connections to the deceased satisfies the dominant philosophical criteria for personal identity regardless of material gaps.
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    • 1.For materialism, nothing bridges the spatio-temporal gap between the body that perishes and that body resurrected.
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    • 2.Without such a bridge, there is no account of how the 'resurrected' person can be identical with the person who died.
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