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    The people before entering Heaven are the same people aft... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The memory of the damned will be erased from the minds of those in Heaven

    The people before entering Heaven are the same people after entering Heaven

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    • 1.Personal identity requires psychological continuity of memory, consciousness, and character across time.
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    • 2.Heaven is described as a state of continued existence, not annihilation and replacement of the person.
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    • 3.If people aren't the same before and after Heaven, resurrection becomes meaningless as applied to persons.
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    • 1.Transformation removing all suffering, sin, and ignorance fundamentally alters the psychological constitution of a person.
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    • 2.A being with perfect knowledge, immortality, and divine communion may be too transformed to count as the same person.
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    • 3.Identity requires some continuity of limitation and finitude; infinite transformation may constitute essential discontinuity.
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