The point Jesus is making is that the Pharisees and Scribes cared far more about literally lost sheep — literal lost animals, than they cared
about human souls that were lost.
«Isn't there something special, perhaps even divine,
about the human soul?»
In The Epistle to Diognetus, often dated about the middle of the second century, we find the following affirmations
about the human soul being used to describe the relationship of Christians to the world.
Our question therefore is, What is distinctive
about the human soul?
Not exact matches
TO KERRY EGAN: You talked
about the strength of the «
human soul,» and how people know what they were missing in love.
A hallmark of the Catholic tradition is that God's existence (though not His Trinitarian nature), the existence of the incorporeal
soul (though not the nature of the after life and the beatific vision), the nature of the
human person (though not the full truth
about the indwelling of grace), and the natural law are all accessible to us without divine Revelation.
The
human body comes
about from the seed and egg of parents in common with other animals, but the
soul is created immediately by God's loving command and wise, eternal will.
Because, my God, though I lack the
soul - zeal and the sublime integrity of your saints, I yet have received from you an overwhelming sympathy for all that stirs within the dark mass of matter; because I know myself to be irremediably less a child of heaven than a son of earth; therefore I will this morning climb up in spirit to the high places, bearing with me the hopes and the miseries of my mother; and there — empowered by that priesthood which you alone (as I firmly believe) have bestowed on me — upon all that in the world of
human flesh is now
about to be born or to die beneath the rising sun I will call down the Fire.
But these were largely asides, and were clearly distinguished from the discussions
about what really grasped Wieman's own
soul — the urgent demand that men and women commit themselves without reservation to the process of creative interchange which creates
human good through the increase of qualitative meaning.
Liddon was slightly uneasy
about the verse in which Jesus said that only the Father knew the date of the End, but claimed that «the knowledge infused into the
human soul of Jesus was ordinarily and practically equivalent to omniscience».17
And when he was thinking
about human existence itself, he was intent upon saying that a whole
human person was compounded of body as well as of
soul; in the end, he said, the two would be reunited after the separation which death had brought
about.
Bultmann is quite prepared to allow that the physical body of Jesus went the way of all
human bodies, although at the same time something
about or of Jesus may have continued — perhaps this would be like the
soul, in older Hellenistic idiom, or the «personality» of Jesus without the «physical integument».
[12] So, if the body is a picture of the
soul, it is a picture of something real and the
soul is not just a way of talking
about beings with typically
human behaviour but is itself something real.
In it I want to do three things: firstly, to overview Roman Catholic positions on the spiritual
soul, secondly to mention some of the reasons for the present virtual silence
about the
soul and, thirdly, to provide the beginning of a positive argument for the
human soul.
And,
about the killings, assume for a moment that God in the old testament is the only God of the universe, the creator and wanted their creations to live in His love (that's why we're created) and He's in charge of where the
souls of every
human beings would end up when they die.
Catholic thought always affirmed that Natural Law theory was
about the whole
human person, physical body and spiritual
soul.
But this sets off a titanic tug - of - war in several characters»
souls about the relative claims of
human and divine love.
Bynum claims not only that the church was not dualistic
about body and
soul, but that it stressed the importance of
human difference and particularity.
One can tease out of the way the story is told some ideas
about the structure of
human beings: body, emotions, will,
soul, spirit, and so forth.
If we use Gould to interpret Catholic teaching we are bound to be dualistic not just
about science and religion but also
about body and spirit, as if God somewhat arbitrarily glues a spiritual
soul onto the physical
human body.
These were often the questions raised by Western religious thought, questions
about God and the
human soul and being itself.
In recent years some influential theologians have revived that negative view and have talked like the older Calvinistic scholastics
about humans as «lost
souls.»
You're right
about the fact that
human created the concept of eternal
soul «after death.»
Mirosal... you are not doing great with any answers... as a matter of fact you arent answering any questions... you are asking them... and why is it so important to claim that you are atheist... this is false pride... something that is evident in any unatural and foolish
human group... its almost as if people hide behind this false pride to make them feel better for things they know in their own heart are foolish... and what need is there for order if there is no GOD... because if no one cared
about their
soul... then this might become the dog eat dog world that you people are hoping for
Since there is no
soul to worry
about then it is a matter of deciding when a fertilized egg should be given its own rights as a
human and that line has been drawn by the courts at viability outside the womb which from virtually every educated medical doctor will tell you is at around 20 - 22 weeks.
«To see the bodies humped
about in black body bags and treated without the respect that the
human body deserves, it is heart breaking, it is
soul destroying,» he said.
I can go on and on
about the attributes of other living species acting the same way
humans do, so why do people believe they haven't a
soul?
Still, not everyone agrees that a zygote or a fetus has a
soul, and there is disagreement even among the most ardent pro-life supporters
about the exact point at which an unborn child qualifies as a
human being.
It is abhorrent to my
soul to talk inhumanly
about greatness, to let it loom darkly at a distance in an indefinite form, to make out that it is great without making the
human character of it evident — wherewith it ceases to be great.
But he does make this observation
about the child that he eventually has: «I realized that George, who had done nothing more admirable than cry and feed, was richly and permanently
human to me, possessed of a
soul, and no alteration could change that.»
There is a contemporary ring
about William Alger's words penned a century ago: «Alas, how widely yawns the moat that girds the
human soul!
The missional approach is different than modern evangelicalism, particularly in this region, because «the work of salvation, in its full sense, is 1)
about whole
human beings, not merely
souls; 2)
about the present, not simply the future; and 3)
about what God does through us, not merely what God does in and for us.»
At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire observable Universe and its billions of galaxies
about 13,720,000,000 years ago (the approximate age of the current iteration of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for
human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point in our evolution from Hom.o Erectus, gave us eternal life and a
soul, and
about 180,000 years later, sent its son to Earth to talk
about sheep and goats in Greco - Roman Palestine.
So finally, even if in his Einsteinian pragmatism God could only be accurately described as the Old One, surely there was a faith in that image, perhaps an agnostic's faith, that made it presumptuous for any
human being to come to any conclusion
about the goodness or incomprehensible amorality of God's universe or the
souls it contained until we at least learned the laws that governed it.
She gets at something
about grief, yes, but also mortality — the pale fragility of the
human body and perhaps, though she is loath to concede it, the delicate impermanence of the
soul.
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But as a feminist movie
about an outsider on the fringes who meets a kindred
soul (who happens to be
human), what it lacks in plot and narrative texture it more than makes up in formal joys.
Before Christina Hendrick finds herself encased in
human - sized action figure bubble wrap with Ben Mendelshon raving
about assaulting her against her will, the film had already lost its footing, and its
soul.
But in trying to make a 10 - best list, I tripped right over my own divided
soul right at the top: My two faves of 2016 are Jim Jarmusch's Paterson, an infinitely gentle - souled movie
about the poetry of life and the life of poetry that finds more pleasure and meaning in ordinariness than most movies do in extraordinariness, and Yorgos Lanthimos» The Lobster, a perfectly sustained dystopian sick joke
about the desperate, poignant futility of seeking
human connection.
Both films are
about the weather of the
human soul, and no two films could be more different.
This isn't
about alien wars as much as it is
about humans hanging on to their hearts and
souls.
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about the gateway to the world of Cenobites, monsters that harvest and torture
human souls.
Solomon Northrup's story involves that, of course, but first and foremost it's
about surviving in the body and
soul, and how far the
human spirit can be pushed before it breaks, as is made clear in the stand - out scene where outstanding debut actress Lupita Nyong» o begs Chiwetel Ejiofor «s Solomon to kill her.
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«It's less
about a guy who played a superhero in big hit movies than it is
about exploring the
human soul and psyche, and also where we are as a society today and how much importance we place on those kinds of things,» the film's star Michael Keaton told EW.
Detroit is the site of a new industrial revolution in Detroit: Become
Human, a game about life — human life, artificial life, and everything in between — from Quantic Dream, the makers of Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two S
Human, a game
about life —
human life, artificial life, and everything in between — from Quantic Dream, the makers of Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two S
human life, artificial life, and everything in between — from Quantic Dream, the makers of Heavy Rain and Beyond: Two
Souls.
Resource includes: - Christian beliefs
about the
soul - Humanist beliefs
about the
soul - Are
humans born sinners?
We are here on Mother Earth as
humans, and our purpose is to become truly humane, as we make our choices and decide the purpose of our existence, for we are already in Mars, in the universe, in the moon, but we are still looking for our
soul...
human rights, and the economic, social and cultural rights of peoples, and the practices for the care of the planet are the ways to be
about the exercise of our full humanity.
Dark passages
about the thousands of displaced
souls struggling to survive — and retake their freedom — alternate with lyrical prose that defines the strength of the
human connection.
It's not a book
about teaching, really, so much as a study in
human endurance, and yet I think it's the best thing ever written
about teaching: the joys, sorrows and downright horrors of giving up the best years of one's life so that other (potentially less deserving)
souls may thrive.