Sentences with phrase «after death of the body»

He believes that after the death of the body there is a release from the time - and - space predicament and a conscious sharing in the timeless Life of God, in which there are probably various stages of enlightenment and knowledge.

There are just as many people that believe their is existance after the death of your body.

There are three important Whiteheadian texts which deal with the question of the immortality of the soul after the death of the body.

Resurrection after death is the raising or reconstitution of total humanity; it does not presuppose some element in human existence which naturally persists after the death of the body.

Living here and now in the Kingdom, living and following Jesus where he is leading us now, rather than focusing on what may happen after the death of this body, however, does make sense.

Many of his subjects reported quasi-religious sensations of bliss, ineffability, timelessness, and reconciliation of opposites; a certainty that consciousness continues after death of the body; and contact with «a supremely powerful, wise, and loving presence.»

Not exact matches

The horrific denouement of an ideology that required breaching the boundary of shame was the shamelessness of death camps where human beings were robbed of dignity, stripped of privacy, deprived, therefore, of an elemental freedom of the body in life and of the respect we accord the bodies of the dead after life is no more.

It has been common in recent years for scripture scholars to tell us that the idea of the separation of body and soul after death — indeed that any systematic distinction between body and soul — was alien to the Hebrew vision of the Old Testament.

The Hebrews, prior to the days when the Neo-Platonic philosophy affected Alexandrian Judaism, never thought of life after death except in terms of a resurrected body.

He never thought, after the Greek fashion, of soul as pure being, capable of disembodiment, but spoke, as his Jewish contemporaries did, of future life in terms of bodily resurrection, and on that basis he discussed life after death with the skeptical Sadducees, protesting only against the popular, contemporary ways of conceiving the raised body and its uses in the next world.

Yet, if his body was raised physically from the grave and did not see corruption, or if his body was transformed after death into something different, in such a way that in itself it was annihilated, then he did not experience the whole of our human destiny.

However, there is a great difference between legitimate doubt as to the precise moment of death and the position of a priest asked to anoint a body in a funeral parlour many hours or days after death.

The church affirmed an increasingly detailed body of authoritative Christian doctrine in which hope for the world to come had been subtly transferred to a distant future, to be reached only after death and resurrection.

This is the only actual body there is, and it shares in the destiny of the soul after death.

Before death, while we are still in mortal flesh, we eat the labors of our hands, we swallow with an effort the food so gained; but after death, we shall begin eagerly to drink in the spiritual life and finally, reunited to our bodies, and rejoicing in fullness of delight, we shall be refreshed with immortality.

However what does your life matter to you after you are dead if your soul (assuming the soul is mortal and simply vanishes with a death of physical body) is no longer in existence.

Odin, the chief god of the Norse, was associated with death by hanging, and a possible practice of Odinic sacrifice by strangling has some archeological support in the existence of bodies perfectly preserved by the acid of the Jutland (later taken over by the Daner people) peatbogs, into which they were cast after having been strangled.

[8] Concurrently, a slave named Jack, convicted in a separate arson case, was hanged at a nearby gallows, and after death his body was thrown into the fire with that of Maria.

If refusal to face squarely the fact of death is found so widely in these days, so also is loss of belief in a continuation of human existence, beyond death, in what used to be called the «after - life» It is indeed true that among conventionally - minded church - people and many others there is a vague feeling that when the body dies the «soul» goes on.

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.

But before that, it is worth saying that the kind of mind - body situation which we have been considering provides a strong case against the notion of some continuation after death of the conscious self that had existed before death.

After a time, however, some Jews began to speak about resurrection of the body, which to them meant the entire human personality; they did this because it was inconceivable that Jews who suffered death as martyrs in the time of the Maccabees should be «cast as rubbish to the void,» their faithfulness to Judaism unrewarded and their bravery denied enduring value.

So G. W. H. Lampe writes: «if his body was raised physically from the grave and did not see corruption, or if his body was transformed after death into something different, in such a way that in itself it was annihilated, then he did not experience the whole of our human destiny....

Later in the book, Baruch asked about the exact nature of the resurrection body at the consummation, and he was told by God that the dead would rise exactly as they were at the moment of death, and after they had been given an opportunity to recognize one another, they would then undergo a spiritual transformation.

The bodies of men after death return to dust, and see corruption: but their souls, (which neither die nor sleep) having an immortal subsistence, immediately return to God who gave them.

Shortly after we learned of the death of Osama bin Laden, U.S. officials said his body would be treated in accordance with Islamic traditions.

The fact that personal identity in this life depends so little upon the relation to a common body and so much upon unmediated hybrid prehensions of past occasions of the soul's life strengthens the plausibility of the claim that continuity may occur after bodily death.

As we have seen, Wright advocates a view in which Christian teaching focuses not on life after death but «life after life after death,» which includes the resurrection of the body and the redemption of the created order.

That there is a soul or living person, ontologically distinct from the body, is the first condition of the possibility of life after death.

Concerning the survival of the human personality after death, whether in the Platonic sense of the immortality of the soul or the biblical sense of the resurrection of the body, Hartshorne is at times agnostic and at others quite skeptical.

Many Atheists assume there is no life after death, that with the death of the body all self - awareness and existence ends.

(Especially The Resurrection of the Dead [1926]-RRB- Karl Barth considers it to be the New Testament interpretation that the transformation of the body occurs for everyone immediately after his individual death — as if the dead were no longer in time.

I know many Christians, and none would complain or care if you threw the body of a Christian demagogue and murderer into a sewer and urinated on him for years after death - or while he was alive.

Neither the saying on the Cross, «Today you will be with me in paradise» (Luke 23:43), the parable of the rich man, where Lazarus is carried directly to Abraham's bosom (Luke 16:22), nor Paul's saying, «I desire to die and to be with Christ» (Philippians 1:23), proves as is often maintained that the resurrection of the body takes place immediately after the individual death.

The act of acceptance — making the sign of the cross or blinking one's eyelids — was surely not the same as repentance, and administering the sacrament after death, of course, asked for no act of will at all, and was scarcely defendable even if one made the curious concession to time that the body must not be cold.

Since, therefore, man was unimaginable to the Hebrews without a body, life after death was naturally pictured as the resuscitation of the embodied life and its restoration to the land of the living.

Human beings after death were, to the early Hebrews, still bodies, attenuated leftovers and shadowy replicas of the flesh, and these existences beyond the grave the Old Testament called rephaim — that is, shadows or ghosts.

Whitehead's system does not provide the conditions for speaking of continued, ongoing personal existence after death in separation from one's body.

This convinced belief in a resurrected body — howbeit full of confusion as to what «body» meant — was the Jewish - Christian way of phrasing life after death.

Paul did not believe in the resurrection of the flesh; he specifically denied that «flesh and blood» continued after death; (I Corinthians 15:50) and the spiritual «body» with which he wished to be clothed moved in new dimensions altogether, quite different from the Jews» resuscitated «flesh and bones.»

I think I am a soul trapped inside this outer physical body and I hope that me, as a soul, will continue to be a unit of awareness long after the death of this physical body.

weak minded morons who are too afraid to face the prospect of their so lovingly maintained body turning to dust after their death create the concept of god and soul to hide their fear.

Even in the Easter affirmation of the Resurrection of Jesus, so important for Christianity, we can now point to no firm historical evidence to show that there occurred there a miracle which involved suspension or reversal of natural laws — in this case, the normal processes of decay into which the physical body enters after the point of death.

The Corinthians did not deny a life after death, but they conceived of salvation as the liberation of an immortal soul from the body; they were the «demythologizers» of their day.

In the great orthodox philosophic tradition, the body is treated as an essential condition to the soul's life in this world of sense; but after death, it is said, the soul is set free, and becomes a purely intellectual and non-appetitive being.

At the time of Jesus» death there was an earthquake (as not in the other gospels) and «many bodies of the saints who had fallen asleep were raised, and coming forth out of the tombs after his resurrection they entered into the holy city [note the Jewish expression] and appeared to many (27:52 - 3).

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Also, for those who don't know, most Christians believed God was separate from Christ in body until the Council of Nicea several hundred years after Christ's death.

You know that I am descended from the most Christian emperors of the German nation, from the Catholic kings of Spain, the Archdukes of Austria and the dukes of Burgundy... After death they left us by natural right and heritage these holy Catholic observances, to live according to them and to die according to their example... I am determined to support everything that these predecessors and I myself have kept... It is certain that a single friar errs in his opinion which is against all of Christendom and according to which all of Christianity will be and will always have been in error both in the past thousand years and even more in the present... I am absolutely determined to stake on this cause my kingdoms and seignories, my friends, my body and blood, my life and soul.

After the death and resurrection of Christ there is no longer need for the «Tent» or sanctuary because Christ's risen body has taken its place.