If someone thinks that the spread of something (a disease, economic system or religion) endangers not only the life but
eternal soul of their children and grandchildren they will usually believe that fighting and even killing is worthwhile to protect against this greater harm.
Not exact matches
Religion permeates our culture, shows up on our doorsteps with literature, scriptures and threats
of eternal d.a.m.nation, influences our science books, contaminates our political systems, indoctrinates our
children and postulates that its doctrine must be followed, lest we be destroyed in body, in
soul, or both.
God manifests Himself upon the scene
of our daily living as the Lord and Giver
of life: interpreting the divine will to our human hearts, comforting us in our sore bereavements, awakening within us a hunger for the
eternal, quickening our
souls to repentance for sin, witnessing with our spirits that we are the
children of God.
I've never thought
of believing in my
soul merely as a way to
eternal life and I wasn't taught as a
child about my
soul or the Bible - for as long as I can remember I felt communion with the earth and nature, and was fully aware
of my
soul and spirit, years before I ever learned
of such things in the Bible.