Sentences with phrase «everlasting man»

C. S. Lewis, noted Christian author (including many books arguing and reasoning about Christianity) stated that he was argued into Christianity by a book by * drumroll * G. K. Chesterton, specifically «The Everlasting Man».

Chesterton's understanding of pagan mythology, given in Everlasting Man, a book that influenced C. S. Lewis in becoming a Christian, seemed to be built upon that primary insight.

Somewhere in The Everlasting Man, Chesterton writes about God being the original cave man (He's speaking about Jesus being born in a cave).

Lewis says that Orthodoxy and The Everlasting Man were two of the most influential books in his thinking and writing.

With his «salute» to «the Jew», «that restless and mysterious figure, knowing... that... he belongs to God» we can place the following passage on «the mission... of the Jews» (which apart from anything else refutes the notion that Chesterton's Catholicism led him to anti-Semitism) from The Everlasting Man, his first Catholic masterpiece: ``... the meaning of the Jews», says Chesterton, was ``... that the world owes God to the Jews....

You could compare it to Chesterton's The Everlasting Man, but it is much more peculiar, much more wide - ranging, and, to me at least, more memorable.

coerced us sophomores into reading The Everlasting Man.

C.S. Lewis's account of reading The Everlasting Man is a striking example.

In his book The Everlasting Man he contrasts two ways of analyzing the Christian faith.

The then - atheist professor Lewis read The Everlasting Man in the mid-1920s and later described the book as a major contribution to his journey away from atheism and his conversion to theism.

(Waugh even toyed with the idea of rewriting The Everlasting Man to rescue it from its Fleet Street barbarism.)

Chesterton's book The Everlasting Man was a response to H.G. Wells, whose book The Outline of History sold more than two million copies and has been translated into multiple languages.

Not exact matches

* * * Built on the Rock the Church shall stand, though earthly temples be closing silenced are voices of evil men, but God's voice still is calling... Calling the young and old to rest, calling the souls in darkness to Himself, calling to life everlasting!

Jesus dying on the cross was an act caused by man's sin, but, look, He applied the pain and suffering for the good of the world that all might have life everlasting.

16 Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting.

The Holy Bible, though divinely inspired, is man's desperate attempt to understand the everlasting enormity of GOD.

The purely individual need for a fulfillment that is denied to us in this life, for an everlasting love that we await, is certainly an important motive for believing that man was made for eternity; but only in connection with the impossibility that the injustice of history should be the final word does the necessity for Christ's return and for new life become fully convincing.»

20 For the invisible things of him since the creation of the world are clearly seen, being perceived through the things that are made, even his everlasting power and divinity; that they may be without excuse: 21 because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, 23 and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four - footed beasts, and creeping things.24 Wherefore God gave them up in the lusts of their hearts unto uncleanness, that their bodies should be dishonored among themselves: 25 for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever.

The picture is obviously a reflection of Daniel 7, where, after four beasts representing successive world empires have come out of the sea (vv 3 - 8, 17), a human figure («one like a son of man»), representing «the saints of the Most High,» comes «with the clouds of heaven» and receives universal, everlasting dominion (vv 13 - 14, 18, 27).

There is a reference to «the everlasting nature of God» that «may establish with the soul a peculiarly intense relationship of mutual immanence» (Al 267) Then there is the chapter on «Peace,» concluding the book and speaking sometimes explicitly, more often implicitly, of God and of man's apprehension of him.

He answered and said to me, This is the Son of man, to whom righteousness belongs; with whom righteousness has dwelt; and who will reveal all the treasures of that which is concealed: for the Lord of spirits has chosen him; and his portion has surpassed all before the Lord of spirits in everlasting uprightness.

But if these beliefs had not been presented to him at all, or were presented in a hateful way, or were presented in a true and right way but he was incapable of fully understanding them, or even if he were capable but died before being fully convinced — in such cases a man is not an unbeliever according to Almighty Judgment and will not suffer everlasting punishment.

I would suggest that since we are in a very junior position in the universe, men might do better to set their hands and hearts to tasks that cry out to be done, instead of posing everlasting whys before they are willing to work to alleviate human suffering and needs.

When you become a man preach us the Good News while you can before you bear the scourge and cross, an everlasting loss we all bear to the grave with guilt.

God himself passes through «Self - annihilation» in Jesus» passion, and, as a result of that passion, and by repeating Jesus» passion in the actuality of experience, the Christian can discover a new and joyous humanity, a humanity that is born only by means of the death of God: «Thou art a Man, God is no more» (The Everlasting Gospel).

What is written is what is needed to know and believe what God is like, what God is doing, and how we are to live and function in this world.When man sin against God, he first loves us, that's why he sent his only begotten son that who so ever believes in him would not perish but have everlasting life.

Yet God is the One who values and uses, because God incorporates into the divine life which is everlasting the good that takes place in the historical sequence; and God overrules or uses for good that which comes from the «vain imagination of foolish men» in their sin and defection — and, we may add, from anything else that is evil or wrong thanks to the free decisions made by the creatures in their divinely granted capacity to choose among relevant possibilities.

How could persons by eating the flesh of a man thereby derive everlasting life?

This could happen only if the guilty person were by nature endowed with extraordinary stupidity, and presumably by shouting in antistrophic and antiphonal song every time someone persuaded him that now was the beginning of a new era and a new epoch, had howled his head so empty of its original quantum satis of common sense as to have attained a state of ineffable bliss in what might be called the howling madness of the higher lunacy, recognizable by such symptoms as convulsive shouting; a constant reiteration of the words «era,» «epoch,» «era and epoch,» «epoch and era,» «the System»; an irrational exaltation of the spirits as if each day were not merely a quadrennial leap - year day, but one of those extraordinary days that come only once in a thousand years; the concept all the while like an acrobatic clown in the current circus season, every moment performing these everlasting dog - tricks of flopping over and over, until it flops over the man himself.

The worldly view always clings fast to the difference between man and man, and naturally it has no understanding of the one thing needful (for to have that is spirituality), and therefore no understanding of the narrowness and meanness of mind which is exemplified in having lost one's self — not by evaporation in the infinite, but by being entirely finitized, by having become, instead of a self, a number, just one man more, one more repetition of this everlasting Einerlei.

First, there is a procession of weird and ferocious beasts, and then «one like a son - of - man [a human form, as distinct from the bestial figures] came with the clouds of heaven,» to be invested with everlasting dominion.40 The prophet himself has supplied a key.

Whitehead approaches the question of man's desire for immortality, not by following the traditional path of the soul as having substance, but that every act, every event, every realization of value has everlasting significance and contributes everlastingly to the nature of things.

Psalms 90:2 establishes that God had no beginning, being «from everlasting to everlasting» (King James Bible) Thus, he is no «exalted Man» but is called our «Grand Creator» (Ecc 12:1), whose name is Jehovah (Ex 3:15), the «One who is stretching out the heavens just as a fine gauze, who spreads them out like a tent in which to dwell.»

[Reprobation is] God's eternal decree that the destiny of certain men shall be everlasting death, whether one views it as God's passing those men by with the grace of election or as the determination to damn (Engelsma, Hyper - Calvinism, 44).

Labour not for the meat which perisheth, but for that meat which endureth unto everlasting life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him hath God the Father sealed» (John 6:25 - 27).

Thus the Holy Catholic Church is both a society of men and women, hence susceptible to study in a sociological fashion, and also the Body in which Jesus (now taken into God's everlasting life) is still made available to succeeding generations down to our own day.

Death becomes not the sheer destruction or obliteration of life but merely its termination, the setting of a limit to the total number of indestructible experiences that comprise a given life.49 Secondly, in urging upon man the principle that his actions help determine the nature of God's everlasting memory of him, it gives very powerful inducement to highly moral and unselfish living within a cosmic perspective.50 Finally, it affirms a cosmic basis for absolutely cherishing the worth of life's every moment, inasmuch as «each moment of life is an end in itself, and not just a means to some future goal.

he either does it or he fails, and He surly FAILS if at the end of time, one iota (or man) is left out to burn in an everlasting torment.

And men and women whose lives had been empty and meaningless became, in his presence, suddenly aware of the beauty of God, and what had been a form of death became life everlasting.

He would then rise from the dead, defeating death, and ascend into heaven, and if a man or woman will repent, and put their trust in the redeeming work of Christ, God will demonstrate His loving - kindness, grace, and mercy towards them by forgiving all of their sins and granting them everlasting life.

Man, created in God's image, is created for participation in the infinite life of communion within the everlasting creativity of God.

Do not labor for the food which perishes, but for the food which endures to everlasting life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set His seal on Him.»

i agree Tim, from the beginning god created them man and woman, not only to procreate, but also to represent the everlasting bond betweem God and His people, and Christ and His bride.

A few more recent writers had interpreted hell in a less terrible fashion; they had even turned it into a kind of purgatory in which the anguish was a necessary means of purification — for such thinkers hell was not everlasting or eternal (whichever you choose) but temporary; in the end God would win all men to himself.

Jabotinsky interpreted this to mean, «Do not exaggerate; do not see danger where none exists; do not regard a man who does his duty as a hero» for history is long, the Jewish people everlasting, and truth is sacred, but everything else, trouble and care and pain and death, ein davar.»

Eternity as a quality of life is participation without the right of duration, in the case of man, in the life everlasting; 2.

They would say that this man was most certainly not worthy to come to the Table, that I was most certainly not worthy to serve, and that daring to participate in this endeavor would surely take me one step closer to «everlasting fire.»

If you think Jesus is a good man, a good teacher, or even the son of God, but you deny that He is the only eternal Life Giver, the only Messiah Savior who gives you EVERLASTING Life, you are L O S T. Millions of professing Christians are LOST because they think its Jesus plus good works, water baptism, and / or other beliefs.

«Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of his death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ: either entrance into the blessedness of heaven - through a purification or immediately, - or immediate and everlasting damnation.»

The constant, everlasting weather of man's life is not love but loneliness.