Now,
as immortal beings, they return to Earth to capture other un-dead foes and fight unsolved crimes.
Adam and Eve were created
as immortal beings, able to have intimate fellowship with their Creator.
While they were created to have intimate fellowship with God, the Bible doesn't say Adam and Eve were created
as immortal beings.
Not exact matches
But Bobby Lee, co-founder and CEO of China - based Bitcoin exchange BTCC, talked up Bitcoin
as being nearly
immortal.
Monarch CEOs
are driven by an elusive quest for an
immortal, lasting legacy,
as well
as for the heroic stature that comes with the position.
I honestly don't care what «supposed
immortal» you believe to
be your god
as long
as you project love.
Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human
beings are simultaneously
being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an
immortal, invisible
being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You
are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you
are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex
is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation
as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.
Immortals such
as your God or any of the other gods
are myths.
He believed that the soul lost its identity and
was immortal as a force.
Typically this process leads to a characterization of God
as a
being so advanced, powerful,
immortal, and not subject to the laws of time, matter, and space that his followers can make up any excuse they choose to address questions, since nothing about their god (or gods) can
be subjected to any kind of objective verification or scrutiny, just like everything else in the religion.
Just think, we have the free will to choose of to
be or not to
be with God, we could float out there in that vast space of the universe
as immortal souls until eternity experiencing a drastic changes in temperature, or not experiencing hot and cold anymore, and just floating in that vast space without
being with God.
It
is because we have
immortal souls that, apart from sin, we would have
been immortal in body
as well.
He might easily have come to us in His
immortal glory, but in that case we could never have endured the greatness of the glory; and therefore it
was that He, who
was the perfect bread of the Father, offered Himself to us
as milk,
as to infants.
At the end of the day he
is still a billionaire and can go back to his mansion
as he chooses, or in Jesus» case
immortal, so in dying sacrificed nothing.
Why
was an
immortal spirit placed in the world and in time, just
as the fish
is drawn up out of the water and cast upon the beach?»
Both the «primordially nature» and «consequent nature»
are defined
as «objectively
immortal» (PR 32), i.e., they
are relatively related to the world; cf. the «relativity principle.»
5 Nor
is the answer possible through creating «
immortal» works of art: «Art
is the artist's false Catholicism, the fake promise of an afterlife and just
as fake
as heaven and hell.»
The contact with Zoroastrianism, which
was the dominant religion within the Achaemenid Empire founded by Cyrus the Great,
as well
as Hellenic thought led to incorporation of religious ideas from those cultures into Judaism, including the development of notions of an immaterial and
immortal soul distinct from the body and a moralized afterlife.
He saw the soul
as the source of movement in every body which moved of itself, and because the soul
is thus self - moving, it must
be unbegotten and
immortal.
I can not at the moment recall one
immortal phrase which expresses it with the same completeness
as that with which the alternative notion has
been rendered by Heraclitus.
If our lives
are objectively
immortal in God,
as they
are on Whitehead's view, we really don't have the slightest bit of choice about the matter.
At the very least, we know that Jesus
was not
immortal, omnipresent, or omniscient (Luke 2:52; Matthew 24:36)
as a man, even though Jesus
is all these things
as God.
As a god who
is, according to your belief,
immortal and powerful enough to have created the Universe, the whole Jesus sacrifice thing makes absolutely no sense.
Hartshorne reasons that if the past
is not in some sense eternally and perfectly preserved, that
is, if the past
is not
immortal, then it follows that in the more or less distant future, it will
be the same
as if we had never chosen one action
as opposed to any other; indeed, it would
be the same
as if we had never existed at all.
This last fundamental religious conviction
is, to my knowledge,
as much
as black theology in North America has ever affirmed, and there
is nothing essential in this which
is overturned by preferring objective immortality to personal immortality and
immortal souls.
On the other hand, Jesus» ascent through the resurrection and new
immortal life truly re-enacts the miracle of the primordial act of the actualization of existents in a sort of «upward» or «backward» sense — that
is just
as creative aspect of Jesus who brought humanity into
being through «the Spirit or the Thought», the word kun — out of the recesses of the darkness of non-
being [SN], his return through resurrection, potentially leads humanity back to the state of uns in him.
This difficulty would however
be mitigated if we could say (
as Whitehead himself however nowhere does,
as far
as I know) that it
is not actual entities which
are objectively
immortal in the constitution of other actual entities, but the characters, or forms of their experience which
are reproduced» (op.
Alexandrian theologians such
as Origen and Athanasius, under the influence of Platonic ideas, believed that the human soul
is immortal.
The key problem concerns how God gets to perceive occasions in the first place so that they can
be taken up
as objectively
immortal into his con sequent nature.
The Whiteheadian answer to these questions
is simply that the past
is preserved
as objectively
immortal in the consequent nature of God and has what efficacy it has on the present
as a result of the role played by God at the birth of every actual occasion.
According to Theodore, if God had made the human
being as immortal and immutable to begin with, we would
be differentiated in no way from the irrational creation, since we would have no knowledge of our own good.
If you get a general notion of what
is meant by perishing, you will have accomplished an apprehension of what you mean by memory and causality, what you mean when you feel that what we
are is of infinite importance, because
as we perish we
are immortal — Essays in Science and Philosophy 117.
To have experienced and understood, in order to teach others to experience and understand, that all human enrichment
is but dross except inasmuch
as it becomes the most precious and incorruptible of all things by adding itself to an
immortal centre of love: such
is the supreme knowledge and the ultimate lesson to
be imparted by the Christian educator.
By perishing in its subjective, present immediacy the actual occasion becomes objectively
immortal,
as the process of becoming unified terminates in a unified
being capable of causally influencing those processes of becoming which supersede it.
So when eternal conscious torment
is the very question at hand, what biblical evidence would you point to
as teaching that the resurrected bodies of the lost will likewise
be made
immortal?
But he could not tell them why Aquinas thought the soul
is immortal,
as Aquinas undoubtedly did, and his paper ran out with a discussion of understanding, not the soul.
On the other hand, neither
is he an abstract, philosophical, metaphysical, unfeeling,
immortal, eternal God,
as human reflection conceives him.
This non-divine knowledge, like the Word,
is alive and
immortal, but must accept freely the divine will for its actualisation, in order to
be sealed
as true
being.
If every actual entity
is objectively (not subjectively)
immortal (and
immortal in terms of its concrete objective individuality or totality, and not merely in terms of some of its aspects or feelings), then God
as consequent would save every value.
The author concludes that cremation isn't necessarily a sin of disrespect for we live and die
as whole persons and
are raised to
immortal life by God alone.
As great as this is Purusa, Yet greater still his greatness is; All creatures are one - fourth of him, Three - fourths th» immortal in the heave
As great
as this is Purusa, Yet greater still his greatness is; All creatures are one - fourth of him, Three - fourths th» immortal in the heave
as this
is Purusa, Yet greater still his greatness
is; All creatures
are one - fourth of him, Three - fourths th»
immortal in the heaven.
There he refuted the Platonic doctrine of an
immortal soul, maintaining that while man
is to
be understood
as the conjunction of two entities, body and soul, these both came into existence simultaneously at the moment of conception.
People die
as mortals, but
are raised
as immortals.
But Judaism,
as we have seen, had already begun to
be influenced by the Greek doctrine of an
immortal soul even though this
was foreign to the heritage of ancient Israel found in the Hebrew Bible.
Literal - minded Moslems have, no doubt, often enough taken these
as literal pictures of the future life just
as Christians have taken literally the pictures of
immortal existence
as given in their sacred book; but many Moslems, like many Christians, believe that these words
are but symbols through which the Prophet attempts to give some conception of the life hereafter, which he obviously believes may
be one of bitter judgment or of supernal delight.
He says, «The world
is self - creative; and the actual entity
as self - creating creature passes into its
immortal function of part - creator of the transcendent world.
In any event,
as there
is no part of us that doesn't die, the supposed nature of this non-existent «
immortal» part
is not relevant.
As a work it
is manifest in Christ's resurrection, teaching us that our fallen flesh
is membered to a victorious personality and a glorious and
immortal body.
The divine intention
was, and
is, that we would all
be actualised
as distinct, but perfectly sharing the whole universe
as one
immortal living body.
Our own personal immortality
is not needed, if all our achieved values
are objectively
immortal as cherished within the divine everlasting experience.