You do know I hope St, Paul did not
believe in immortality for everyone... just the «saved».
I realize that non-literal nuances are difficult for those who NEED to only think in simplistic childish term, but that doesn't change the fact, the Hebrews did not
believe in immortality the way it's thought of today... «By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.»
Lincoln did not
believe in the immortality of the soul, but his is probably floating down one or all of the 5 rivers of Hades: 1.
LJ - «I do not
believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.»
Then explain where you got «hell» when the Hebrew «Sheol» was NOT a place of punishment, AND the Hebrews did not even
believe in immortality.
It is because
he believed in immortality that he saw the other attitude to be both blind and wrong.
This last question will determine in what sense
we believe in immortality.
Sitting in the French philosophe's chaletin Ferney, Boswell pressed him to declare whether
he believed in immortality and eternal life....
The belief in Jesus» resurrection is not the same as to
believe in his immortality.
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.
Indeed for the Greeks who
believed in the immortality of the soul it may have been harder to accept the Christian preaching of the resurrection than it was for others.
On his missionary journeys Paul surely met people who were unable to believe in his preaching of the resurrection for the very reason that
they believed in the immortality of the soul.
Even those who
believe in the immortality of the soul do not have the hope of which Paul speaks, the hope which expresses the belief of a divine miracle of new creation which will embrace everything, every part of the world created by God.
I'm proud of Bergson (I'm a Bergsonian to quite an extent); Bergson said that he was inclined to
believe in immortality, but then later he said that he was not talking about an infinite survival.
They do not
believe in the immortality of the soul.
I do not
believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.
My intimations are not unique to me; they have been observed by others wiser than I. Someone asked William James at age 70 if
he believed in immortality and he replied: «Never strongly, but more so as I grow older.»
Only fools do
believe in immortalities and living forever on one dimensional plain of existence!
Believing in the immortality of the soul, they are fearless in battle».
Not exact matches
From time to time she notes that «we can no longer
believe»
in traditional Judaism or Christianity - that is,
in the notion of a personal God, or a Savior who rose from the dead, or personal
immortality in the familiar sense.
Here is Carl Van Doren
in «Why I Am an Unbeliever» announcing his unbelief: «I do not
believe in any god that has ever been devised,
in any doctrine that has ever been revealed,
in any scheme of
immortality that has ever been expounded»» those passive verbs setting up faith as a fraud from the start.
That Hartshorne
believes a thoroughgoing analysis of the nature of man always leads to consideration of the reality of God is most clearly seen
in his discussion of the question of human
immortality.
I'm astonished and shocked how seldom Christians remind themselves that the people who first had the kind of belief
in God that we more or less have did not
believe in personal
immortality.
His view was that it is nobler not to
believe in [what's conventionally meant by]
immortality, because it forces us to look beyond ourselves for our ultimate aim.
If one accepts the view of Christian faith, he can
believe in personal
immortality.
This, then, is the objection to
immortality; and the next thing
in order for me is to try to make plain to you why I
believe that it has
in strict logic no deterrent power.
We give up our own
immortality sooner than
believe that all the hosts of Hottentots and Australians that have been, and shall ever be, should share it with us
in secula seculorum.
Lawyer and scholar Thomas More said that religious tolerance should be extended to all except those who did not
believe in a deity or the
immortality of the soul.
Rank
believed that women find power and a kind of
immortality in motherhood.
The latter involves
believing in supernatural beings and one's own
immortality in one form or another, based on nothing more than old books and one's fear of their own death.
William of Occam recognized the authority of the Church
in spiritual matters and said that, although they can not be proved, such tenets of Christianity as the existence of God and the
immortality of the soul must be
believed because they are taught by the Church and the Bible.
The adherents of each were
believed to share symbolically
in the death and resurrection of the god and thus to obtain
immortality.
To the question, «Do you
believe in personal
immortality?»
We
believed in both the
immortality and the mortality of the person, and acknowledged that the mystery of human selfhood was quite similar to the mystery of the divine.
He wanted
immortality of some kind, not necessarily the specific kind
in which his father and grandfather
believed.
Either personal
immortality was not known, or the writer did not
believe in it.
Clonaid — closely tied to the Raelian sect, which
believes aliens created humans and cloning is the gateway to
immortality — is still
in business.
Hindus
believe that bathing
in these waters washes away their sins and brings them a step closer to
immortality.
Many biologists don't
believe long life is possible
in humans, much less
immortality.
This resource can be used as an introduction lesson - or developed into useful revision lessons as it explores with students the following ideas: Clarification of reasons why people
believe in life after death Reasons why people DO N'T
believe in life after death The relationship between the soul / mind and body Monism / Dualism
Immortality of the soul Analysis of Plato A quick discussion on Descartes
Card sort and accompanying powerpoint on
Immortality which includes the views of those who
believe in Humanist, Spiritualist, Bodily resurrection and spiritual resurrection.
Revision notes for
Believing in God, Problems of evil and suffering,
Immortality and Science and religion.
The story revolves around Lara Croft doing her best to follow
in her father's footsteps by travelling the globe to find and confirm a Prophet who her father
believed was real, but everyone doubted the existence of as nothing more than a myth; due to the powers of healing, resurrection and
immortality, while Lara must face a deadly enemy group named Trinity that wants the discovery for themselves.
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.
The first is the 1905 revolt of Kinjeketile Ngwale, who —
believing in the magic powers of a herbal potion of his creation called maji - maji, meaning «water of life and
immortality» — led the first revolt against colonial rule, known as the Maji Maji Rebellion.
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.