Sentences with phrase «immortal beings which»

Besides the souls of the departed who were thought to reside in one or other of these two places, there were varieties of angels and immortal beings which were thought to have peopled heaven since the time of creation.

Not exact matches

I really think a lot of people have no idea the extent to which Canada is, in the immortal words of the Arrogant Worms, rocks and trees and trees and rocks.

Or has the act of making a public appearance at which investors are pitched mean you are already necessarily under 506 (c) and, in the immortal interjection of Gov. Perry, whoops, you'd better have filed your Form D 15 days back already?

Christians believe that a mortal person has an immortal soul, and that this immortal soul can be provided with a resurrected, «sanctified» (which effectively means purified, unblemished, and apparently lacking genitalia) body... the term Eternal Life tends to be used to describe the idea that a «True Believer» in Christ (a term open to many, many interpretations) will have their immortal soul implanted in that resurrected body and they will get to live for all time with Christ, apparently singing a lot and doing very little else.

Which teaches us we are an immortal soul going through successive lives in a quest to be better spirits.

Apparently you just ignored the whole point that there is a difference between the concepts of «immortality», where everyone will be resurrected and become immortal no matter who you are since physical death came abut through Adam and the fall, and «eternal life», which is living with God or in other words it deals with the quality of that immortal life.

Athanasius» name, which means «immortal», could hardly be more fitting.

The concept of an undying, immortal soul goes against the Bible, which teaches that souls are subject to death.

In the Manichean Psalter the soul on its way to the realm of the immortals says, «I will cast my body upon the earth from which it was assembled... the enemy of the soul» (75:13 ff.).

An additional point, stressed by Buddhism and Whitehead, is that since we all die, the self is a wasting asset, unless there is something immortal to which our lives are contributions.

The contact with Zoroastrianism, which was the dominant religion within the Achaemenid Empire founded by Cyrus the Great, as well as Hellenic thought led to incorporation of religious ideas from those cultures into Judaism, including the development of notions of an immaterial and immortal soul distinct from the body and a moralized afterlife.

He saw the soul as the source of movement in every body which moved of itself, and because the soul is thus self - moving, it must be unbegotten and immortal.

It further seemed a matter of common - sense to ancient man that this inner spirit or soul, which he knew from the inside and which he witnessed in his fellows, should be immortal or deathless.

I can not at the moment recall one immortal phrase which expresses it with the same completeness as that with which the alternative notion has been rendered by Heraclitus.

Were they created immortal, or were they simply kicked out of the Garden before they could eat of the Tree of Life, which would have granted them immortalWere they created immortal, or were they simply kicked out of the Garden before they could eat of the Tree of Life, which would have granted them immortalwere they simply kicked out of the Garden before they could eat of the Tree of Life, which would have granted them immortality?

This last fundamental religious conviction is, to my knowledge, as much as black theology in North America has ever affirmed, and there is nothing essential in this which is overturned by preferring objective immortality to personal immortality and immortal souls.

For Wood we do not need to posit something ahistorically and cross-culturally universal to all human beings, something «objective» like an invisible and immortal soul (which paideia presupposed in ancient Athens), of which «dispositions» and «character traits» are modifications.

but everyone is in spiritual bodies the only difference is whether you make the first resurrection of the millennium those who made it will be in their immortal spiritual bodies which the second death will not affect them.

This difficulty would however be mitigated if we could say (as Whitehead himself however nowhere does, as far as I know) that it is not actual entities which are objectively immortal in the constitution of other actual entities, but the characters, or forms of their experience which are reproduced» (op.

They are righteous, holy, glorious, immortal, according to the prophecies, with the righteousness, holiness, glory, and immortality which are His in full reality, and are theirs in the communion of His Body --» in Christ.»

By perishing in its subjective, present immediacy the actual occasion becomes objectively immortal, as the process of becoming unified terminates in a unified being capable of causally influencing those processes of becoming which supersede it.

How, then, could it be true that the prophecies were fulfilled which spoke of the congregation of the righteous being transfigured into the glory of an immortal life?

... You see, these misguided creatures start with the general conviction that they are immortal for all time, which explains the contempt of death and voluntary self - devotion which are so common among them; and then it was impressed on them by their original lawgiver that they are all brothers, from the moment that they are converted, and deny the gods of Greece, and worship the crucified sage, and live after his laws.

Thus no matter what may happen to the body, man's soul is immortal and since it is this which constitutes his distinctive human quality, death is an important and tragic incident, certainly to those who loved and cared for the one who dies, but it is not a final incident — there is more to come, so to say.

Literal - minded Moslems have, no doubt, often enough taken these as literal pictures of the future life just as Christians have taken literally the pictures of immortal existence as given in their sacred book; but many Moslems, like many Christians, believe that these words are but symbols through which the Prophet attempts to give some conception of the life hereafter, which he obviously believes may be one of bitter judgment or of supernal delight.

The Preacher must be contemplating with delight all this idle speculation in the immortal life which he accepted, I am sure, with genuine, but controlled astonishment.

He was a peacemaker and doer of good, and the immortal Allegory which he wrote has brought the very spirit of religious patience home to English hearts.

Ephesians 4:4 - 6 «Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only [monos] God» 1 Timothy 1:17 «which He will bring about at the proper time幽e who is the blessed and only [monos] Sovereign, the King of kings and Lord of lords, who alone [monos] possesses immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no man has seen or can see.

Transient emotions every man surely has, but if as a consequence of such emotions one would do the terrible thing which love has sanctified as an immortal exploit, then all is lost, including the exploit and the bewildered doer of it.

The contrast, which out of concern for the truth I have found it necessary to draw between the courageous and joyful primitive Christian hope of the resurrection of the dead and the serene philosophic expectation of the survival of the immortal soul, has displeased not only many sincere Christians in all Communions and of all theological outlooks, but also those whose convictions, while not outwardly alienated from Christianity, are more strongly moulded by philosophical considerations.

The concept of an «immortal soul», (which required «saving»), was unknown in the Old Testament.

Because according to the teaching of Scripture, death is sleep, a prolonged sleep which will eventually end, and then the bodies of the dead will reawaken as they are reunited with their immortal souls.

From this one use of the word we may infer that Sheol was an inherited factor in Jesus» thinking, with which he dealt little, if at all, so that his characteristic and original contribution to immortal hope was not phrased in terms of it.

Is that which is objectively immortal exempt from perishing, as Neville claims, freed from the perils of undergoing a second death, or does the past perish insofar as it is not included within present prehending (cf. PR 517Is that which is objectively immortal exempt from perishing, as Neville claims, freed from the perils of undergoing a second death, or does the past perish insofar as it is not included within present prehending (cf. PR 517is objectively immortal exempt from perishing, as Neville claims, freed from the perils of undergoing a second death, or does the past perish insofar as it is not included within present prehending (cf. PR 517is not included within present prehending (cf. PR 517)?

The soul through all her being is immortal, for that which is ever in motion is immortal; but that which moves another and is moved by another, in ceasing to move ceases also to live.

Which is what Jackie Robinson, the immortal Number 42, delivered.

So, the question we are facing is: If God's consequent nature realizes itself in part out of the prehensions of all worldly actual entities (PR 345), to which new ones, however, are continually added, how then can the consequent nature of God be objectively immortal (PR 32)?

Delta immortality was the position taken early on by American Reform Judaism, as expressed in this official statement from the 1885 Pittsburgh platform: «We assert the doctrine of Judaism that the soul is immortal, founding this belief on the divine nature of the human spirit, which forever finds bliss in righteousness and misery in wickedness.

«We too seldom convert the phrase, and tell them that they are really spirits, and have a body which contains an immortal part, to be prepared for immortality.»

To be immortal, then, is to be a mortal who has a share in God's immortality (1 Timothy 6:16); conversely, to be estranged from God is death — or «second death,» which is either annihilation or a particularly wretched form of Alpha immortality.

11 In what appears to be a later insertion, Whitehead reflects on this contrast: «Concrescence moves towards its final cause, which is its subjective aim; transition is the vehicle of efficient cause, which is the immortal past» (PR 210/321).

It is simply a peaceful place I visit in my soul (my soul being not an immortal presence, which I don't believe exists, but rather my most honest and deepest self)

His game is both timeless and immortal, which makes placing Duncan in a proper historical context all the more challenging.

New North American LCS team Immortals (which purchased Team8's spot in the offseason) has announced its first roster, and it is a doozy.

He gets incredibly well paid to do the entire work, which he doesn't do really well, but he still gets paid and he's immortal at the club.

He said, «with my global outreach initiative which is creating a new epic movement, I have been travelling out of my kingdom to visit other nations around the world to share our own stories, delivering academic lectures, re-charting the leading role of Yoruba nation in the world and to reignite the immortal Yoruba spirit of enlightenment as the glowing fountain of knowledge that gave birth to the world civilisation».

(The scientists don't have to answer, which is ultimately the technique I employ for the question about the immortal dog.)

Until recently, Ain was renowned for a highly prized repository of 18 immortal cancer cell lines, which he developed by harvesting tissue from his patients» tumors after removal, carefully culturing them to everlasting life in vials.

New experiments by UC Berkeley and UCSF researchers suggest that immortalization of skin cells, which is essential to turning them cancerous, is a two - step process: a mutation in nevus cells slightly raises levels of telomerase, which keep the cells alive long enough for a second change, still unknown, that up - regulates telomerase to make the cells immortal and malignant.

Sometimes telomerase is a good guy because it helps produce immune cells and stops telomeres from shortening, but it can also make cells immortal, which prompts them to turn malignant.