Platonic Dualism and its influence on christianity.

[The Mikado]

I, of course, will yield the stage to jmfcst if he has issue with my depiction of Christianity, but here's my view on the differences between Plato and Christianity.

So, according to Plato's Phaedo,, when our physical forms die, and our souls continue onward to inhabit a new form.  The soul does not die, anymore than a note dies when an instrument stops playing.  The soul (an analogy for Plato's beloved "forms") sheds its physical prison, but is eventually tied to a new one.

It doesn't work that way in Christianity.  Despite its pop-cultural depiction, the Bible predicts resurrection in flesh at the end.  Resurgam.  People will get out of their graves.  Plato would've found this image horrifying.

[The Mikado]

People will get out of their graves.  Plato would've found this image horrifying.

Correction: people will get out of their graves with new, incorruptible flesh.