One bullet to the brain later, Ben is in the Other World, where he discovers a vast and curiously secular existence utterly unlike anything he could have imagined: a realm of sprawling cities where the deceased of
every age live an eternal second life, and where forests of family trees are tended by mysterious humans who never lived in the previous world.
Not exact matches
I do not read your minds (or «hear your prayers» as you like to call it) and you are not going to achieve immortality (or «
eternal life» as you like to call it) no matter how many commandments from Iron
Age Palestine you choose to «keep».
Our
lives are so short compared to the
age of the universe, we need an
eternal purpose to give our
lives meaning... So, the only way I see to do that is to serve the purpose of something
eternal, namely God.
If a person must believe in the death and resurrection of Jesus, must they believe that Jesus rose in a glorified,
eternal, incorruptible body, and that He went on to ascend into heaven, or can they believe that He went on to
live, grow old, and die again of old
age like the others who were resurrected in Scripture?
5.5) which exactly parallel a common Jewish usage, except that there the synonyms «
age to come» or «
eternal life» would be used rather than Kingdom of God, as, for example, in the question in Mark 10.14 or the promise in Matt.
Jesus said: «no one who has left home or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields for me and the gospel will fail to receive a hundred times as much in this present
age: homes, brothers, sisters, mothers, children and fields — along with persecutions — and in the
age to come
eternal life» (Mark 10:29 - 30).
t its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the
age 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 gave them
eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.
His theme is
life eternal, that is to say, in eschatological language, the
life of the
Age to Come, but
life eternal as realized here and now through the presence of Christ by His Spirit in the Church.
On the
age of accountability view, children and infants who die at a young
age, before the
age of accountability (which varies by each child) actually inherit
eternal life, for God's grace is imparted to them.
Historically, there have been three routes taken to explore that possibility: the philosophical examination of the idea of immortality; various religious beliefs and speculations on an
eternal life; and, most recently, a reinvigorated scientific dream of overcoming
aging and death.
He wanted to win
eternal life, but not at the price of giving up what this
age offered.
«Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or fields, for my sake and for the sake of the good news, who will not receive a hundredfold now in this
age — houses, brothers and sisters, mothers and children, and fields with persecutions — and in the
age to come
eternal life» (Mark 10:29 - 30; cf. Matt.
Were it not in a true sense inspired, it would not through the
ages have been inspiring many millions to better
living and to a higher discernment of the
Eternal.
Concern with material continuity also fed theological and artistic speculation about the fate of cut fingernails and hair, the condition and presence of genitals, the
age and stature of the resurrected body, the bodies of the saints, the fate of relics, whether bodies in hell are reassembled as completely as those given
eternal life and how and whether digested body parts are regurgitated at the resurrection.
Here the contrast between entering
life or the kingdom of God and being thrown into the
eternal fire of Gehenna clearly connects the kingdom of God with the coming
age.
Grounded in the assurance of God's
eternal and universal sovereignty, it included his rule over an individual's
life, the fellowship of those dedicated to the will of God, the relief of mankind's afflictions by the power of God's Spirit, and the final consummation of the
ages in a new world.
The
eternal life thus begun would of course lead on to resurrection and continued
eternal life in the
age to come.
He himself was confused at an early
age, as we all have been, by the imposition of religious teaching that depicted the character of God as one who creates and stands in charge of the gates of hell to give non-believers
eternal physical
life then to cast them into
eternal physical pain.
At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,700,000,000 years ago (the
age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,700,000,000 years for h.omo sapiens to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them
eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.
I sometimes wonder what the space
age is going to do to some people's faith in
life eternal.
At its most fundamental level, Catholicism requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,700,000,000 years ago (the
age of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,700,000,000 years for h.o.mo sapiens to gradually evolve, then, at some point gave them
eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.
Therefore repent, believe in Christ, and you will receive forgiveness of sins, and a share in the
life of the
Age to come, or
Eternal life.
That which is offered is the
life of the
Age to Come or
eternal life.
At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the
age 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 gave them
eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.
At its irreducible minimum, Catholicism requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire Universe and its billions of galaxies 13,720,000,000 years ago (the
age 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 gave them
eternal life and sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in the Middle East.
As believers during this church
age, we experience only two of these seven — spirit baptism at the moment we believe in Jesus for
eternal life, and water baptism as the first step of discipleship and following Christ.
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.
It would technically allow
eternal life, should we have infinite «replacement parts»; the challenge is making sure all these «parts» work together and we have the «least» amount of «repairing» going on to try to minimize «excessive invasion of the body with «Replacements» and end up «messing» things up (like a failed surgery procedure after than 100th one... there is this risk) OncoSENS - Stopping Cancer at the Starting Line (That is Extremely impressive, it will save so many
lives, nothing more to add; and, perhaps one more thing, it will slow epigenetic
aging of Already cancer patients giving them hope to at least post pone it should it fail at eradicating it.)
Also, they are careful to say, now, that intend to improve ill - health but as we know from epigenetic
aging, these concepts can untangled and uncoupled; and thus, remaining healthy would theoretically allow
eternal life; but that is something epigenetic
aging has answers that are more muddled and less hopeful.
The men and women of the Golden
Age, Hesiod wrote,
lived in an
eternal spring, for hundreds of years, always youthful, fed on acorns from a great oak, on wild fruits, on honey.
When I was the
age that many kids today are who are playing games like GTA and COD, I was never allowed to play nor see anything that was
age rated for adults because my parents felt I needed to learn about
life first and to know the fine line between reality and fiction and right and wrong, I never got to play my first adult rated game till I was 17 and had proven that I was mature enough to not copy anything from the game, that game was
Eternal Champions on the Mega Drive, fun game, but tacky.