Sentences with phrase «as immortal souls»

For in their faith they are vindicated as immortal souls, and from this enhancement of their dignity they find the reason why they must offer a perpetual challenge to the dominion of men over men.

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.

He can not obtain this victory by simply living on as an immortal soul, thus fundamentally not dying.

Whoever wants to conquer death must die; he must really cease to live — not simply live on as an immortal soul, but die in body and soul, lose life itself, the most precious good which God has given us.

Not exact matches

Do you mean «soul» in the traditional sense, as the immortal ent ity that houses your personality, or do you mean just your personality, which will end when your brain dies completely?

An atheist then can justly describe an encounter with a pod of whales, for example, as a spiritual experience while still understanding that he doesn't have an immortal soul.

He believed that the soul lost its identity and was immortal as a force.

It is because we have immortal souls that, apart from sin, we would have been immortal in body as well.

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.

God did not create hell for people, He created as a place for immortal souls (angels primarily) that have no intent on living in an ordered eternity.

Nevertheless, influenced by more atomistic modes of thinking inherited from the Greeks, many Christians came to think of the self as a soul isolated from the body and cut off from the world by the boundaries of the skin, an immortal substance in a perishable body.

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.

Alexandrian theologians such as Origen and Athanasius, under the influence of Platonic ideas, believed that the human soul is 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.

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.

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.

Under these circumstances theologians and philosophers of the western cultural tradition leaned more and more on the doctrine of an immortal soul as an expression of the Christian hope.

Ironically, neither can it be regarded as a «noumenal reality» and apprehended under The Critique of Practical Reason, because in his analysis of the antinomies of reason, Kant postulates that the thinking self is an immortal soul.

At that instant of time when I gave all up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure, redeeming love broke into my soul with repeated scriptures, with such power that my whole soul seemed to be melted down with love; the burden of guilt and condemnation was gone, darkness was expelled, my heart humbled and filled with gratitude, and my whole soul, that was a few minutes ago groaning under mountains of death, and crying to an unknown God for help, was now filled with immortal love, soaring on the wings of faith, freed from the chains of death and darkness, and crying out, My Lord and my God; thou art my rock and my fortress, my shield and my high tower, my life, my joy, my present and my everlasting portion.

Because according to the teaching of Scripture, death is sleep, a prolonged sleep which will eventually end, and then the bodies of the dead will reawaken as they are reunited with their immortal souls.

In Plato the two primary Greek meanings for «theos», immortal and soul, coalesce, as they had earlier in the Pythagorean religious tradition, rooted in the Orphic mystery cults as distinguished from the popular Greek religion of the Olympic gods.

In the mysterious doctrine of the «receptacle,» or cosmic subject of changing predicates, Plato seems to lean toward monism; however, in his belief in individual human souls as immortal he seems inordinately pluralistic.

Believing in the absurd ideas of an immortal soul surviving our own physical deaths to live happily ever after in heaven at the behest of some cosmic John Frum is every bit as silly as anything this cult did.

In the company of God and of immortal souls even family responsibility is greater and more inclusive than in the company of nations and of men who are regarded as purely temporal beings.

Stemming from this belief are all sorts of other ones, such as the belief in an immortal soul, so that when we die we simply continue in another form, and (if we're lucky) do so in a glorious place called heaven.

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.

We are Hindu so far as our physical and mental constitution is concerned, but in regard to our immortal souls we are Catholic.

Delta immortality was the position taken early on by American Reform Judaism, as expressed in this official statement from the 1885 Pittsburgh platform: «We assert the doctrine of Judaism that the soul is immortal, founding this belief on the divine nature of the human spirit, which forever finds bliss in righteousness and misery in wickedness.

Tocqueville says that religion is the indispensable American counterculture insofar as it teaches that we have souls and so high and immortal personal destinies and relational moral to duties to each of us we share in common.

There is little justification for interpreting «spirit» in this context as a personal, immortal soul.

For many of these peoples, mummification preserved the perceived connection between the physical body and the immortal soul — just as they needed each other in life, so too were soul and body linked in the afterlife.

Nineteenth - century scientists fell into bitter debate as to whether intelligence lay in anatomy or whether a vital force — or even an immortal soul — was responsible for thoughts.

Jennifer Connelly is equally matched as his wife, Emma, whose strict religious beliefs lead her to believe that his work will be damning his immortal soul.

BYZANTIUM sees Gemma Arterton and Saorise Ronan as Eleanor and Clara, a pair of immortal lost souls travelling the country with a bloodthirsty dark secret.

Edvard Munch emphasis the soul as immortal and art as symbolic meaning to himself and other people.

Then on February 23, John Banville will publish The Infinities (Knopf), billed as a literary gem with a playful side that finds immortals vying over the soul of a dying mathematician.

All for the nominal fee of some money off the contract and any future royalties they've managed to secure you, as well as a reasonable portion of your immortal soul.

Otto Rank (at one time a protege of Freud), broke with his master and posited that we are, rather, motivated by the undeniable conflict between our sense of ourselves as «immortal souls,» and our realization that we exist by virtue of our all - too - mortal bodies, that we are desperate to believe that we will, somehow, live beyond our bodies, and that, in order to do so, we pursue «immortality projects,» that we invest in our activities the promise of eternal life.