Warren H. Carroll's Reasons For Hope

Many people believe that Christianity is a hoax. Many people believe that it is false and that there is no God. This book was made to refute all false claims about Catholicism and to show all men that the Catholic faith is true, in the simplest way of looking at reality itself. Before I dive right into the report I’d like to discuss the several authors of the book “Reasons For Hope”. There are four authors that contributed to the book: Warren H. Carroll, William H. Marshner, Jefferey A. Mirus and Kristin M. Popik Burns. All of these authors have something in common and they all played a huge role in creating the book. Warren H. Carroll was born March 24, 1932 in Maine. He attended Columbia University, the University of Colorado law school,
By simply observing the title we can infer that the soul never dies. The soul separates what is living and what is not living. The things that are able to do things on their own are called “alive, besouled and/or animated”. These things are distinguished from the things that are inanimate, such as rocks. The rock cannot act on its own which shows its lack of soul. The understanding of what is alive and what is not is seen everyday of our lives so we don’t spend much time thinking on it. Even young children know the difference between a real bear or a toy bear. The early man thought that things were alive because of the lack of information about the subject. He saw that water and fire was animated so he thought these things were alive. The soul is an integral part of the whole, united with other parts to form one being. “If the soul were a separate being added onto the body of an organism making it alive, the organism would not be one thing but two things combined together.” In a substantial change something stays and something changes. When people die the corpse has a new form, and does not have the old form (which is what made it alive) but the soul remains. A physical human body can be broken down into a corpse because of its physical composition but because the soul does not have a physical structure it can not break down. “Since the subsistence soul can neither decompose in itself nor cease to exist because of the corruption or decomposition of something else, and since these are the only ways in which something might cease to be, the soul cannot stop being.” So through this we understand that the soul is always