An entirely new person

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So, it's like a confession in church. You apologize and that's it. Or like criminals do - they get drunk, do things and can't remember what they did.

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Agree, it's not quite the same, but changing cells every seven years and expect to be forgiven every time you do it for things you did in the meantime as a totally different person - no, it's not right.

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But the consequences of your previous actions would still be there. You killed somebody and that person is gone. You live as a new being with your new cells but what you did is still a fact. I say no to this.

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What if the criminal acts were committed by an atheist who subsequently found God and was 'born again.' Is being born again not analogous with becoming a completely new person?

“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” (2 Cor. 5:17).

@ghost-of-a-duke said
What if the criminal acts were committed by an atheist who subsequently found God and was 'born again.' Is being born again not analogous with becoming a completely new person?

“If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!” (2 Cor. 5:17).

All criminals would suddenly find God.

@the-gravedigger said
All criminals would suddenly find God.

Apart from dyslexic criminals, who find dog.

@torunn said
Agree, it's not quite the same, but changing cells every seven years and expect to be forgiven every time you do it for things you did in the meantime as a totally different person - no, it's not right.

I think most people would agree with your position, but the premise is an interesting one.

As an aside, they say a dog's year is equivalent to 7 human years, so on that basis we would need to forgive our dogs on a yearly basis, even if they destroy our slippers.

@ghost-of-a-duke said
Although not entirely true, let's assume you are a completely new person every 7 years (where all your cells have been replaced and regenerated). Would one therefore be able to claim that anything bad we did 7 years ago was not done by us?

Asking for a friend.

I remember watching a documentary about following the lives of people at 7 year intervals. Was it “7 Up”?

NO NOT the soft drink.😡

@yo-its-me said
Do you feel you are representative of all Canadians VR?

Only the good ones yo. 🙂

-VR

@torunn said
But the consequences of your previous actions would still be there. You killed somebody and that person is gone. You live as a new being with your new cells but what you did is still a fact. I say no to this.

I think cells are relevant only to a body and its continuing functioning and existence.

Meanwhile, a "person" is a literally unique thought- and behaviour-forming narrative that can be accessed exclusively [and added to] as long as the body that enables that "person" to exist doesn't perish.

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It's too hypothetical for me.