The divine intention was, and is, that we would all be actualised as distinct, but perfectly sharing the whole universe as one
immortal living body.
Not exact matches
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.
God is doing something about all the destruction of this world, and has a solution — Faith in His Son Jesus Christ will get you forgiveness of all your sins, eternal
life in an
immortal body, and everything good you could ever imagine, both now and in heaven.
The salvation is the redemption of the
body, the resurrection
life of the
immortal body.
Whoever wants to conquer death must die; he must really cease to
live — not simply
live on as an
immortal soul, but die in
body and soul, lose
life itself, the most precious good which God has given us.
The Corinthians did not deny a
life after death, but they conceived of salvation as the liberation of an
immortal soul from the
body; they were the «demythologizers» of their day.
Original sin was, and is, a transcendental catastrophe, whereby every iota of matter - energy in the universe, divinely intended to be one,
immortal, fully alive
body, perfectly shared by all
living forms, is fallen and blemished.
For many of these peoples, mummification preserved the perceived connection between the physical
body and the
immortal soul — just as they needed each other in
life, so too were soul and
body linked in the afterlife.
Latin Legend — Gavin Farmer is seduced by Lancia's forgotten beauty — the stunning Aprilia Gran Sport / Cars In My
Life — David Crabtree's family photograph album is a «must see» for motoring enthusiasts / Special Buyer's Guide — The
immortal Jaguar XK120 / Delahaye 135M The Editor encounters a delightful unrestored Chapron -
bodied coupe / Une Passion Francaise — Jan Norbye researches a brief history of the famous French marque — Delahaye / Moss Magic — Stirling Moss is Britain's hero of pre-1960.
All who
live possess eternal
life, and few would trade it for an
immortal body, if they truly understood what it is to be alive.
Otto Rank (at one time a protege of Freud), broke with his master and posited that we are, rather, motivated by the undeniable conflict between our sense of ourselves as «
immortal souls,» and our realization that we exist by virtue of our all - too - mortal
bodies, that we are desperate to believe that we will, somehow,
live beyond our
bodies, and that, in order to do so, we pursue «immortality projects,» that we invest in our activities the promise of eternal
life.