I ran across something interesting the other day while reading about St. Augustine. He was a fascinating guy. In this particular account he talked about an angel who came to a friend in a dream. In the dream the angel convinced the man of the existence of life after death by discussing the various ways in which we see -- with our eyes, with our minds and in our dreams. The angel used this information to convince the man of the existence of life after death. It made perfect sense to me. Here's an excerpt:
As while you are asleep and lying on your bed these eyes of your body are now unemployed and doing nothing, and yet you have eyes with which you behold me, and enjoy this vision, so, after your death, while your bodily eyes shall be wholly inactive, there shall be in you a life by which you shall still live, and a faculty of perception by which you shall still perceive. Beware, therefore, after this of harbouring doubts as to whether the life of man shall continue after death.This believer says that by this means all doubts as to this matter were removed from him.--St. Augustine
Great point!
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