Moreland tells the story of his fifth grade daughter asking him during family prayers, "Dad, if I could see God, it would help me believe in him." To which Moreland replied:
"Well, honey, the problem isn't that you've never seen God. The problem is that you've never seen your mother." And her mother was sitting right next to her!
"My daughter said , 'What do you mean, Dad?' I said, "Suppose without hurting your mom, we were able to take her apart cell by cell and peek inside each one of them. We would never come to a moment where we could say, 'Look -- here's what Mommy's thinking about doing the rest of the day.' Or 'Hey, this cell contains Mommy's feelings.' Or 'So this is what Mom believes about pro football.' We couldn't find Mommy's thoughts, beliefs, desires or her feelings.
"Guess what else we would never find? We'd never find Mommy's ego or her self. We would never say, 'Finally, in this particular brain cell, there's Mommy. There's her ego, or self.' That's because Mommy is a person, and persons are invisible. Mommy's ego and her conscious life are invisible. Now, she's small enough to have a body, while God is too big to have a body--so let's pray!"
"The point is this, Lee: I am a soul, and I have a body. We don't learn about people by studying their bodies. We learn about people by finding out how they feel, what they think, what they're passionate about, what their worldview is, and so forth. Staring at their body might tell us whether they like exercise, but that's not very helpful. That's why we want to get 'inside' people to learn about them."
"So my conclusion is that there's more to me than my conscious life and my body. In fact, I am a 'self,' or an "I,' that cannot be seen or touched unless I manifest myself through my behavior or my talk. I have free will because I'm a 'self,' or a soul, and I'm not just a brain." - From in J.P. Moreland, ch. 10, "The Evidence of Consciousness," in Lee Strobel, The Case for a Creator, pp. 260-261