Those who describe the natural stages of death, and speak of
death as a part of life, are invoking once again this Greek sense of immortality.
Death as a part of Life, like Birth.
i guess i've come to the point in my life where i accept birth and
death as part of the life cycle.
The truly touching thing about Coco is that, like Toy Story 3, it accepts
death as part of life.
We need to witness
death as a part of life, not to be feared.
Not exact matches
Thinking
of exercise
as normal and its absence contributing to depression, disease, and
death motivates me to make exercise a normal
part of my
life.
Once you've put such a plan in place, ideally by the time you're in your forties, «the plan should be able to survive everything except major changes in your
life, such
as the
death of a close family member or failure
of part of your business,» says Dick Cummins, director
of personal financial services in Coopers & Lybrand's New York City office.
The
death benefit and payment plan
of any standard whole
life insurance policy are set
as part of the policy and do not change.
While an ILIT is an effective way to make sure that your
life insurance
death benefit is not taxable
as part of your estate, there are a couple situations in which you may face a tax event:
Many years ago, I heard someone speaking about how Jesus»
life and
death absorbed the «shock»
of sin and
death within creation and how we
as His body have been called to a similar mission — the verses which speak
of us «carrying in our selves» the marks that we belong to Him, sharing in some small way in His sufferings
as we share in His
life — it's all
part of a realm where the sweet savor
of the fragrance
of Him is allowed to be evidenced in this broken world.
That so to reason and so to perceive requires a great relearning which is never completed in their
lives; that for the most
part they do not reason and interpret on the basis
of the new premise but on that
of the old; that they tend to interpret the action upon them by which they are and by which they cease to be
as inimical or indifferent; that they respond therefore for the most
part in the manner
of an ethics
of death, Christians agree.
More than three centuries ago, when dealing with
death was more a
part of everyday
life, John Donne asked: «What is so intricate, so entangling
as death?
The real test
of love
as seen in the deeper moral traditions
of mankind, and in the Christian faith, is the willingness
of persons to commit their
lives and sexual being faithfully to one another «till
death do us
part».29
As we do, we must also recognize that these unnecessary
deaths are
part of a cultural
death — the
death of blackness itself at the hands
of life - denying, anti-blackness.
We can say such things, for example,
as that he was born in Palestine during the reign
of Herod the Great; that he was brought up in Nazareth; that he
lived the normal
life of a Jew
of his period and locale; that he was baptized by John, a proclaimer
of the early coming
of God's judgment; that he spent a year or more in teaching, somewhat in the manner
of contemporary rabbis, groups
of his fellow countrymen in various
parts of Palestine, mostly in Galilee, and in more intimate association with some chosen friends and disciples; that he incurred the hostility
of some
of his compatriots and the suspicion
of the Roman authorities; that he was put to
death in Jerusalem by these same authorities during the procuratorship
of Pilate.
I agree with your over all statement that we
as individual Moslims are responsible for making sure we are portrayed accurately but I will tell you that against such a orginized movement that is a task
as difficult
as parting of the sea or giving
life to a
death body.
He was able to picture early Christianity this way with the more assurance because he did most
of his scholarly work before attention shifted back to Palestine in the time
of Jesus (thanks in
part to the discovery
of the Dead Sea Scrolls), and before the themes
of light against darkness,
life against
death, came in the 1960s to be understood
as first century Jewish themes.
As for the reason Jesus was put to
death, Cox locates the proximate cause not in humanity's sinfulness; nor in Jewish outrage over Jesus» claims to be the Son
of God and the Way, the Truth, and the
Life; nor in the jealousy
of religious leaders threatened by Jesus» miracles (which Cox suggests were the fruit
of positive thinking on the
part of those who «feel» healed after touching Jesus); nor in his teachings (which Cox insists were uncontroversial among the Jews).
Simply to describe
death as natural, to try to rid it
of its ultimate terror by seeing it
as part of the rhythm
of life, to view it only from the perspective
of the finite — this is to risk losing the deepest ground
of our individuality and equality.
Its real meaning is that the
life and the
death and the Cross
of Christ are not,
as it were,
parts of some isolated incident.
Death's brutality over the greater
part of the last two millennia cast a long shadow over everyday
life as disease, famine, and infant mortality claimed victim after victim.
All knowledge about
death does not alter the fact that
death is not a meaningful
part of life and that there is nothing for us to do but to accept the fact
of death; hence
as far
as our
life is concerned, defeat.5
i accecpt
death as freely
as i accecpt
life — for its
part of it, one who thinks they are accecpting
of life but not
death has much to learn!
Several special features
of Christian belief should be stated, such
as the coming
of God's kingdom in the
life, preaching, miracles,
death, and resurrection
of God's Son, and the redemption from sin which is
part of that coming.
We are saying that even when
death has brought an end to our conscious existence, our whole historical
life remains
as part of the history
of the universe, and,
as such, it continues to influence others for better or for worse.
John Cobb, Jr. in his book, A Christian Natural Theology, 1 makes this same error in his discussion
of life after
death as a
part of a chapter on the human soul.
These suggest a vision which revealed Jesus in his heavenly glory at the right hand
of the divine throne, not unlike that seen by the martyr Stephen when he looked up to heaven and «saw the glory
of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand».47 So Goguel comments, «When we consider the
part played by the faith in the resurrection in Paul's religious
life and thought
as a result
of Christ's appearance to him, we see that most essential to his faith was not the feeling that Jesus had returned to the environment
of his
life on earth preceding his passion but a belief in his glorification, i.e. in his transition to
life in heaven where
death has no more dominion over him.»
The hope that continues beyond the point
of death is that one's
life will be accepted by God
as having fulfilled some
part, at least,
of the purpose for which one was created.
As material evolution becomes
living matter, entropy at this level
of life becomes
death, which is the cessation
of life through the dissolution and decomposition
of the
living parts.
You don't have to feel small in order to come to terms with an idea that we will once again become
part of the universe in
death, and give nutrients back to the ecosystems that have helped sustain
life as we know it.
To develop this sense
of «belonging» will be a way in which, here and now,
life can become meaningful; for in the little cells
of Christian faith and love which are our parishes
as they ought to be, hope is implanted m men's hearts that lifts them above, and yet sends them back into, the community
life of which they are also a
part, knowing that they have passed from
death into
life, because they love the brethren and are therefore empowered to bring a stream
of fresh, courageous, loving
life to a sadly disillusioned and despairing world.
For me, who started out my
life as an evolutionary, nihilist, atheist... It is very good news that there is a God, He is good, He loves me, I am not alone, He will never leave me or forsake me, He loves being with me, I'm can be more myself with Him than without Him, He isn't afraid
of my doubts, I'm free to question anything, I'm safe,
death is not the end, the earth will be restored, we will see righteous government, there will be an end to war, I will get to be a
part of that restoration, I am a
part of it now, all I do now that is
of the kingdom shall remain, I will see the full fruit
of that labor in the world to come... Wow.
Other Christians, even if they are hesitant to affirm a physical resurrection, will surely balk, if they take the New Testament seriously, at following Kübler - Ross's chatty recommendation that «it might be helpful if more people would talk about
death and dying
as an intrinsic
part of life, just
as they do not hesitate to mention when someone is expecting a new baby.»
But that is not what Paul preaches: He preaches Christ in us the Hope
of glory,
as Christ is to be formed in us here and now: It is by Grace through Faith that we are saved, a 2
part salvation: Only through the operation
of Faith, do we have grace to be saved: In Adam all die EVEN SO in Christ is all made alive: A
death to
life cycle:
As Emory Professor Gary Laderman has written, by the end of the nineteenth century, «intimacy with the naked truth of death, as it was embodied by the corpse, was no longer a necessary part of social life (The Sacred Remains, 175).&raqu
As Emory Professor Gary Laderman has written, by the end
of the nineteenth century, «intimacy with the naked truth
of death,
as it was embodied by the corpse, was no longer a necessary part of social life (The Sacred Remains, 175).&raqu
as it was embodied by the corpse, was no longer a necessary
part of social
life (The Sacred Remains, 175).»
For there is considerable evidence that a very large
part of what the industry does is not so much maintaining
life as postponing
death.
There are three responses which mortals can make in regard to
death: to deny it, to accept it
as an unpleasant but inevitable fact, or to affirm it not only
as inevitable but also
as a valid and joyous
part of the natural process
of which birth,
living and
death are equally important.
When I read the paper, I came away understanding your view exactly
as you have said it yourself — that you believe Christ's
death for sins, resurrection, and deity - humanity are not necessary for the lost to believe in order to receive eternal
life but they are
part of something you can «the gospel» in a very broad sense
of all NT revelation.
We need not only to affirm
death not only
as inevitable but also
as a valid and joyous
part of the natural process
of which birth,
living and
death are equally important.
The physician tends to react to
death exclusively
as the alien intruder, whereas the pastor looks upon it
as a
part of the bundle
of human existence — an inevitable dimension
of the
life process which is to be faced with realism and faith.
The grouping
of the chapters into four
Parts seems to me to be entirely arbitrary,
as Ifind no sense
of progression (either narrative or argumentative) nor
of thematic similarity within each
Part, save that chapters on the beginning
of Francis»
life and ministry are towards the beginning and those on his
death towards the end.
But most important in his message,
as in that
of the teacher also, would always be the good news
of God's action in Christ, the event
of Christ's advent,
life,
death, and resurrection, which had so recently occurred — which indeed was still occurring, for the coming
of the Spirit was a
part of the event and Christ was soon to come again to bring to fulfillment what had been begun.
He counted Stabler
as a friend late in
life, and during a conversation in October he said something that explained why Stabler's
death registered so deep for so many who saw him play, how a little
part of them left when he died.
McKesson is best known for his activism in support
of Black
Lives Matter, a movement which began in
part as reaction to the shooting
death of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri in the summer
of 2014.
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PART BY THE NEGLIGENCE
OF THE RELEASEE OR OTHERWIS
OF THE RELEASEE OR OTHERWISE.
If we weren't seen
as such societal outliers if we didn't want a romantic partner — or at least an «until
death do we
part» kind
of partner — would we choose to
live differently?
With so many couples starting their new
life together with those sorts
of expectations — even
as they vow «until
death do we
part» — it's no wonder they become self - fulfilling prophecies.
As such, many a stab has been made to resolve it: from a shared sense
of humour to a willingness to forgive, experts have long pontificated on how to make it through
life without murdering the person you promised to love until
death did you
part.
While that probably IS a large
part of it, I also think it's rooted in the surge
of hero worship for doctors that began in the early 1900's
as science progressed so rapidly and things like vaccinations saved millions
of children from suffering miserable
deaths and
life crippling diseases (polio, anyone?)
With so many couples starting their new
life together with those sorts
of expectations — even
as they vow «till
death do we
part» — it's no wonder they become self - fulfilling prophecies.