Neither our bodies or
this earthly body we live upon were meant to confuse or confound us.
Not exact matches
It is not merely some one part of our make - up which will be brought to
life again: naked, as it were, and without any mode of self - identification and self - expression corresponding, in a spiritual existence, to the physical
body in our
earthly existence.
Whatever transformation has taken place or will take place in her existence, it is a transformation of an actual
life that this corpse was integrally part of as her
earthly body.
Earthly offenses are the cutting of
living bodies, the cutting of dead
bodies, leprosy, incest, calamities from creeping things, from the high gods and from high birds, killing of cattle, bewitchment.
The mstrengthening of the bonds of the
body of Christ, stretching as they do across the divide between
earthly life and death, should bring tribute to Christ rather than discredit.
One way for allowing for both the continuity and the discontinuity which need to be understood between the
earthly Jesus and the risen Christ is to say, «In the
body he was put to death; in the spirit he was brought to
life.
Although the soul is united to the
body during a person's
earthly life, it is capable of transcending that relationship and existing apart from space and time altogether.
A
life of bliss in some undefined state is promised for the righteous ones, but this is independent of the former
earthly body, and hence the resurrection idiom is irrelevant.
In his view the only ones who really die are the wicked, but the good suffer no loss by the death of the
earthly body, but continue to
live in the presence of God.
Yes, I look for the resurrection of my well - beloved who are already born for eternity I look for the birth for eternity of all humanity, of those who are called to eternal
life with the death of my
earthly body and the agony of my soul, attached to this earth... my theodicy is smile: I look for the resurrection of the dead and the
life of the world to come.
It is the flesh, bound to our
earthly body, which is throughout our
life the hindrance to the Holy Spirit's full development.
First the vitalization of matter, associated with the grouping of molecules; then the hominization of
Life, associated with a super-grouping of cells; and finally the planetization of Mankind, associated with a closed grouping of people: Mankind, born on this planet and spread over its entire surface, coming gradually to form around its
earthly matrix a single, major organic unity, enclosed upon itself; a single, hyper - complex, hyper - centrated, hyperconscious arch-molecule, co-extensive with the heavenly
body on which it was born.
All our
earthly lives and
bodies are perishable, starting from Adam on.
His resurrected
body, as described in the assembled narratives of the New Testament, represents alike the original, primitive belief in a resuscitation of the flesh with all its
earthly functions still intact and, as well, the later tendency to rarefy and spiritualize the idea of «
body» in the risen
life.
Just as the
body is maintained in
life by the foods of the earth precisely because it is
earthly, so there exists also an intelligible
life by which our noetic nature is maintained.
If «
body» is symbol for the whole person, the answer might be Yes; however, our
earthly mode of being is surely so different from heaven that eternal
life lived in a form essentially like our present one makes no sense.
NOW...
LIFE... «I WAS dead - but I am alive...» God gave
earthly things as a reminder of spiritual ones (new birth, promised land etc.) Let's see the function of blood in the
living organism: the major one is TRANSPORTING of a) oxygen and carbon dioxide between the lungs and rest of the
body, b) nutrients to the
body, c) Waste products to be detoxified or removed by the liver and kidneys... See the picture?
Not surprisingly, our strongest objections arose in regard to the Immaculate Conception, the belief that Mary was preserved by God from original sin, and the Assumption, the belief that her
body was taken into heaven at the end of her
earthly life, the first declared by Pope Pius IX in his 1854 Ineffabilis Deus and the second by Pope Pius XII in 1950 in Munificentissimus Deus.
He Himself has put on an
earthly body and
lived like us in the person of Christ Jesus.