Sentences with phrase «fleshly bodies»

The idea of a temporary state of waiting is all the more repugnant to those who would like fuller information about this «sleep» of the dead who, though stripped of their fleshly bodies, are still deprived of their resurrection bodies although in possession of the Holy Spirit.

And since our hope is to participate in his Resurrection life, and since we clearly can not expect to be raised in our fleshly bodies, then our resurrection from death (which will not be physical) can not be different in kind from his.

To claim that our fleshly bodies are that Kingdom runs into great dificulties when understanding that the scriptures teach that these bodies will be destroyed and we will then be given new bodies that will only then be part of the kingdom.

Apparently it will be superior to our current fleshly bodies and yet capable of experiencing many of the same functions.

However, I (or rather Ratzinger / Pope Benedict) did not cite 1 Corinthians 15 in order to subvert the idea of material continuity, but rather to support the idea that resurrection will involve a profound transformation and not a mere «return of the «fleshly body,» that is, of the biological structure» in the form that we know it today.

That includes you, who were once alienated, enemies in your own minds to God's purposes, immersed in evil actions; but now you are bodily reconciled in his fleshly body which has tasted death.

Since the Greeks (as indeed most of the ancient world though often in vague and undefined ways) were accustomed to think of death in terms of the survival of an immaterial soul, the Jewish emphasis on the resurrection of the fleshly body seemed not only unnecessary, but unspiritual and even repellent.

It follows also that our mortal flesh can not perceive the risen body of Christ, and so it is not our fleshly body that is eating the body of Christ but our eternal spiritual person who is becoming united with the risen Christ (body, blood, soul and divinity) when our mortal bodies eat and digest the sacred species in the Eucharist.

Neither in this passage nor elsewhere is found any more detailed information about this intermediate state in which the inner man, stripped indeed of its fleshly body but still deprived of the spiritual body, exists with the Holy Spirit.

Not exact matches

«Let no one keep defrauding you of your prize by delighting in self - abasement and the worship of the angels, taking his stand on visions he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind and not holding fast to the head, Christ, from whom the entire body, being supplied and held together by the joints and ligaments, grows with a growth which is from God.»

I suspect that he might affirm that what is resurrected is the spiritual body of which Paul spoke rather than the fleshly one.

Despite all the determined efforts to maintain a triumphal optimism about the liberating possibilities of weight loss, the oppressiveness of fleshly disciplines may well prevail, as the command to love oneself, including the body, is contradicted and undermined by the directive to amend its defects and unceasingly refine its contours.

If our fleshly, carnal bodies can become perfect, why do they die?

To persecute the house of Israel is to persecute Christ, not in his mystical body as when the Church is persecuted, but in his fleshly lineage and in his forgetful people whom he ceaselessly loves and calls.

And because of that, the only way that you can make your fleshly version of the gospel work is to say that you will always be a practicing sinner, because you either have no plans to leave certain sins, and / or have believed the lie that those sins will always be more powerful than the body, and blood of Yahshua, so you say that they can not be overcome.

In fact, the resuscitation and glorification of Jesus» physical body was an impossible conception, for it would still be, «flesh,» not, «spirit»; and the whole force of his argument in I Corinthians 15 involves the substitution of a glorious spiritual body for the earthly, «fleshly» body in the Resurrection.

1 COR 6:19 To me relates to this issue of masturbation is that our bodies are not our own but were bought at a price therefore we honor God with our bodies.We submit our fleshly desires to him rather than gratify the lusts of the flesh he has given us marriage as the proper place to enjoy sexual desires they are natural and bring joy and fulfillment within marriage.

Gnostic teaching, with its emphasis on spirit and its condemnation of matter, came preaching either that it did not matter what a man does with his body, or that it was nothing less than a duty to give the fleshly nature its full sway.

Today the mist of fleshly weakness was for a little while removed, and the eternal Sun, in a new and stunning miracle, shone forth by radiating through a yet mortal body.

On the lower grounds of the park, a new, stainless steel sculpture, Lick Your Throat and Cut Your Feet, 2017, a fragmented assemblage of body parts and abstracted, fleshly forms, emerges from a secluded location in the trees near Lake Austin.

Thek's name is often cited in relation to the Technological Reliquaries or «meat pieces», a series of works made in the 1960s where body parts appearing as chunks of flesh were presented in geometric vitrines, a revelry of one's fleshly mortality within the confines of the composed exterior of minimalism.

Although his body has turned skeletal in death, his penis, so charged with desire, stays alive with lust and remains fleshly, erect and blackened.