Sentences with phrase «all about immortality»

Most of us, I'd wager, don't spend a lot of time thinking about immortality or the distant future.

Jesus Christ is all about immortality and in this world we who know him as he prescribed get to try that out..

Shalom and Robertson discuss Hartshorne and his ideas about «personal identity», about the idea that «to be» is «to create,» about «soul - substance,» about immortality, about the «person» and the «self.»

So in answer to the first question about immortality — does it exist — a relational view would answer: If it does, it's only because of God.

The second question about immortality, presuming there is an afterlife, is: What is it like?

The revelation of God in Jesus has uttered a word about immortality that can not go unheard.

They acknowledged their own serious doubts about immortality.

If we were to speculate further about immortality using the general relational approach of the previous chapters, what else might we say?

One can therefore divert oneself by reflecting how strange it is that precisely in our age when everyone is able to accomplish the highest things doubt about the immortality of the soul could be so widespread, for the man who has really made even so much as the movement of infinity is hardly a doubter.

You realize that when Paul was teaching about immortality and eternal life that he was talking about two different principles.

Along with this, the philosophical notions about soul, about immortality, about a realm above and beyond the hurly - burly of this world, present in the tradition of Greek philosophy and variations on that philosophy in the early Christian era, had become so much part of the atmosphere of thought that inevitably these two affected Christian thinkers.

None of the developed traditions about immortality fosters self - absorption.

In this respect, all fully developed teachings about immortality gravitate toward the Omega end of the scale.

Recently, at a wedding reception, I polled some friends about immortality.

Marlowe is irritated that he never got credit for writing Shakespeare's plays, one of many obnoxiously presented wink - wink jokes about immortality aimed at fans of vampire fiction who have probably heard this stuff a million times.

To prove herself, Lara and Jonah Maiava, a returning character from the preceding game, begin their investigation in the dangerous and icy lands of Siberia, in search for the ancient city of Kitezh, which Lara believes to hold some truth about immortality.

To tackle the mystery of the eternal hydra, Krulwich and his NPR science reporter Adam Cole, produced a video to show us more about the immortality - lottery winning hydra:

One thing I've learnt from decades inside boardrooms, is that, by and large, oil, coal and gas companies live in an analytical bubble, deluded about their immortality and firm in their beliefs that «renewables are decades away from competing» and «we are so cheap and dominant the economy depends on us» and «change will come, but not on my watch».

Not exact matches

As he and collaborator Lynn Novick prepare to debut their new 10 - part documentary film series The Vietnam War on September 17 on PBS stations nationwide, we spoke with the tireless documentarian about leadership, productivity, managing gigantic projects and how to achieve immortality through storytelling.

They talk about their families because that is what really matters in a person's life... that is thier true legacy and their only real immortality... most people, I am fairly sure, know deep down that god is a fairy tale, a cushion, and that death is truly the end... what this very excellent young woman heard from these dying people makes perfect sense... death is a time to end the bs and look at and reflect upon what was real and important in that individual's life

Again, I'm not concerned with proving the reality of an eternal afterlife, I was more curious about the mind set that would cause someone to prefer non existence over immortality, even if that immortality was HYPOTHETICAL.

The medieval field of alchemy — the attempt to change base metals into gold and to find the philosopher's stone capable of bringing about human perfection, even immortality — is ludicrous to the modern mind, a relic of a prescientific time.

If we do not wish to speculate about this other world of which we can have no experience here, it is still important to recognize the religious dimension of the problem to which the doctrine of immortality is an attempted answer.

«if I disbelieve immortality I must not think about it.»

Yesterday, Edward Fudge responded to your questions about conditionalism (sometimes called annihilationism)-- the view that immortality is conditional upon belief in Jesus Christ, so the unsaved will ultimately be destroyed and cease to exist rather than suffer eternally in hell.

Our first task is to theorize about the possibility of life after death, or subjective immortality.

In order to arrive at such a re-conception it has been necessary to question the usual ideas about «subjective immortality and the pictures in which they have usually been communicated.

«4 The reason for the idea is the doctrine of the immortality of truth; holding a correspondence view of truth, Hartshorne feels he requires the unfading everlastingness of all occasions in God to make the notion of truths about the past intelligible.

Ford believes that subjective immortality, were it metaphysically possible and religiously desirable, would be actualized by divine power, but he wonders about both of these conditions.

The question is whether the usual talk of immortality is a possible or even desirable way of assuring the validity of such a conviction about love and its meaning.

Hamilton personally is dubious about subjective immortality, i.e., the continuation of the present stream of consciousness beyond death.

In my own ministry I have talked with a number of thoughtful people — mainly young people — who accept belief in God as giving meaning and joy and hope to this life but reject, or are at best highly doubtful about, any concept of personal resurrection or immortality.

This event coupled, of course, with the resurrection is at the center of Christian belief about death and immortality.

The influence of Greek thinking about the inherent immortality of the soul and the acceptance of Jesus» resurrection as a pledge of personal immortality have combined to make a convincing argument for Christian believers.

Earlier this month, Edward Fudge responded to your questions about conditionalism (sometimes called annihilationism)-- the view that immortality is conditional upon belief in Jesus Christ, so the unsaved will ultimately be destroyed and cease to exist rather than suffer eternally in hell.

It also rests on something deeper than speculation about an infinitely prolonged life in the form of what is often meant by immortality of the soul.

Yet there is something about this mechanical immortality that bothers me deeply.

The scientific vision of immortality is a comparatively new entrant in thinking about the future of our lives.

The truly intimidating feature of a greatly extended life span, much less earthly immortality, is that just about everything else in human life would have to be changed to make it worthwhile.

For the present, my argument is simply that the talk about «immortality of the soul» has served to provide for a great many Christian people what they wrongly took to be the right and proper Christian way of escaping the stark reality of total death.

Whenever we confess the traditional words of the creed «I look for the resurrection of the dead», we are not comforting ourselves with the hope of personal immortality; we are making a very solemn confession about the serious purpose of life.

Without denying this objective immortality, David Griffin has examined the possibility of subjective survival more positively, 4 and John Cobb has speculated about the possible interpenetration of such souls in the hereafter in ways that overcome their possible self - centeredness.5 Marjorie Suchocki has also explored ways in which we may live on in God which are quite different from these conceptions of the immortality of the soul.6

Ephesians 4:4 - 6 «Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only [monos] God» 1 Timothy 1:17 «which He will bring about at the proper time幽e who is the blessed and only [monos] Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone [monos] possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see.

People who believe in immortality may think about God's judgment when any death occurs, it's part of the unknown dimension of death that makes us suspenseful, nervous, anxious, fearful.

Christianity should focus on the Gospel's core message, which is to teach about salvation and immortality.

Human lives are distorted by a fear of death, and that fear accelerates in the modern world with the atrophying of various illusions about personal immortality.

The fact that later Christianity effected a link between the two beliefs and that today the ordinary Christian simply confuses them has not persuaded me to be silent about what I, in common with most exegetes, regard as true; and all the more so, since the link established between the expectation of the «resurrection of the dead» and the belief in «the immortality of the soul» is not in fact a link at all but renunciation of one in favour of the other.

Like Jesus, Socrates has his disciples about him on the day of his death; but he discourses serenely with them on immortality.

JK: Could you say something about your views on immortality and the possibility of life after death?

Angels are not sent out by God except when there is a real problem to be addressed and fixed; the very least the Unification Church could have done when I told them about this visitor (who is still with me by the way) was to send someone out to talk to me to see exactly what it was that I may have really known about the Providence concerning Rev. Moon reaching immortality in the flesh: but I suppose they all thought they knew more than my servant John; who happens to be» the greatest in the kingdom of heaven».