Naturalism has a problem. It is called the person. I am not speaking of the flesh and bones that makes up each one of us in the human race. What I am talking about is the non-physical part of our being – that which gives us the ability to think, choose, and feel (emotions). Now some may say it is the brain that causes us to think, choose, and feel. I beg to differ. I do not dispute that the chemical makeup of the brain changes when we think, choose, and feel – I simply suggest that the brain is not the primary cause.
Naturalist will usually disagree with me on this point. They would suggest the brain is the primary cause of thinking, choosing, and feeling. However they have at least two major road blocks which I have yet to hear satisfactory answers. First, if they are consistent with their idea that a natural/physical world is all that exists then humans are predestined to choose certain things – we must dance to our DNA – so to speak. Second, if they allow the human to have some non-physical component then they betray their naturalistic worldview. For how can the non-physical evolve from the physical?
Christianity has a satisfactory answer to the question of personhood. Humans are physical and non-physical beings. God, who is spirit, created man with a physical body and a soul. The soul, or spirit, interacts with the physical body and visa-versa. The human soul can think (with the brain as its control center), choose, and feel emotion.
