Sentences with phrase «conception of eternal life»

I've been hoping for anything that would assuage my angst as I come to terms with my previous conception of eternal life.

(On Johannine conception of eternal life, see E. F. Scott: The Fourth Gospel; Its Purpose and Theology, chap.

We can not form a conception of eternal life.

The plurality of images and conceptions of eternal life is a normal function of the religious imagination.

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This dynamic is true and fruitful even if other factors prevent the specific high point of fruitfulness which is the conception of a new eternal life.

«He that believeth hath eternal life»; (John 6:47) «He that heareth my word, and believeth him that sent me, hath eternal life, and cometh not into judgment, but hath passed out of death into life»; (John 5:24) «This is life eternal, that they should know thee the only true God, and him whom thou didst send, even Jesus Christ» (John 17:3)-- this conception of immortal life as a present gift, inhering in the quality of spirit that Christ bestows, is characteristic of the Fourth Gospel.

Such was the beginning of the Bible's conception of the afterworld, and the development of thought from this crude primitiveness of Sheol to the New Testament's doctrine of eternal life constitutes one of the most significant contributions of the Scriptures to religious history.

If souls are eternal and the only choice available is either heaven or hell at the end of this brief respite called life, where were these immortal souls of ours before conception / birth?