... will be raised; it will not be a different and brand new body but the old body. Aquinas (echoing the argument of very many of the Fathers) notes t he reason for this: " If the body of the man who rises is not to be composed of the flesh and bones which now compose it, the man who rises will not be numerically the same man." " Furthermore, in the resurrection there will be only one soul per body ... and only one body per soul. As Augustine says: " ... quarks, or whatever fundamental particles human bodies consist of. This may well be the oldest philosophical objection ever raised a gain...

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