Sentences with phrase «immortal man»

Can you imagine being a 500 + year old immortal man, with your only problem being how many limbs you still have in place?

Whatever the future holds for Chesterton's cause, his greatest legacy isn't about being a brilliant intellectual, or an immortal man of letters, or even a possible saint.

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«exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.»

Please, any Christian, honestly answer the following: The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

The 15th - century Renaissance scientist Pico della Mirandola articulates this view, by putting these words into God's mouth: «We have made thee [«man»] neither a thing celestial nor a thing terrestrial, neither mortal nor immortal, so that being thine owne fashioner and artificer of thyselfe, thou maist make thyselfe after what likeness thou dost most affecte.»

Being immortal walking in communion with God would lead one to believe man was in spirit form.

Commonly with us, soul and body are sharply distinguished — soul, the immaterial, immortal part of man, and body, the material and perishable, with salvation concerning the soul, and death, the soul's release from its physical habitation.

Mascall believes, first, that although the body of man may have evolved, the immortal soul of man was directly created by God and conjoined to his body at some point in the evolutionary ascent.

Claiming to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles....

Whereas ancient man yearned for an immortal existence among the gods, the prophets declared that YHWH had chosen to dwell among men.

More will be said on the Biblical view of man later, but it is sufficient to point out here, that it is just because the Bible hardly anywhere reflects a doctrine of an immortal soul, that the Christian hope took the form of the resurrection of the body.

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.

At the very least, we know that Jesus was not immortal, omnipresent, or omniscient (Luke 2:52; Matthew 24:36) as a man, even though Jesus is all these things as God.

This body, the scripture teaches, is, unlike the personal body of the man, immortal.

Only «gods» could understand such evidence and since «man» is not immortal, then «humanity» are not Gods therefore could never have the capacity to understand any evidence of the existence of a «God.»

It plays to the innermost vanity of man wanting to be immortal, that we receive a reward of the highest cal.iber.

Here the language of the Fourth Gospel approximates to that of contemporary Hellenistic mysticism, which taught that by gnosis man might enter into union with God, and so become divine and immortal.

J.R.R. Tolkien's legend of the mortal man Beren and the immortal elf Lúthien is to be published next year.

No it's never over because God created man in His image with an immortal soul.

The affirmation that the Word of God has finally become man calls upon man to accept his own humanity and to abandon all mythological pretensions to be an immortal god.

It is what Paul called the exchange of «the splendour of immortal God for an image shaped like mortal man (Rom.

A passage of Paul's clarifies the problem somewhat: people «exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man or birds or animals or reptiles» (Rom.

In your excellent editorial article, you write: «There has been a long - tradition within Catholic catechesis for making a rational case for the immortal nature of men... She (the Catholic Church) needs to make a renewed case for her teaching concerning the human soul.

23 And by them the glory and majesty and excellence of the immortal God were exchanged for and represented by images, resembling mortal man and birds and beasts and reptiles.

But the Son of God does nothing superfluously... For he truly was made man, and died, and not in mere appearance, but that He might truly be shown to be the first begotten from the dead, changing the earthy into the heavenly, and the mortal into the immortal.»

There he refuted the Platonic doctrine of an immortal soul, maintaining that while man is to be understood as the conjunction of two entities, body and soul, these both came into existence simultaneously at the moment of conception.

Man was created by God originally to be immortal in both body and soul, but because of his sin he was declared mortal.44 It was necessary for God to decree the dissolution of the body so that «sin might be altogether destroyed from the very roots».45 God's plan of the redemption of man involved a complete remodeling, so that what had been handed over to death should be rescued for eterniMan was created by God originally to be immortal in both body and soul, but because of his sin he was declared mortal.44 It was necessary for God to decree the dissolution of the body so that «sin might be altogether destroyed from the very roots».45 God's plan of the redemption of man involved a complete remodeling, so that what had been handed over to death should be rescued for eterniman involved a complete remodeling, so that what had been handed over to death should be rescued for eternity.

1:22 Although they claimed to be wise, they became fools 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images made to look like mortal man and birds and animals and reptiles.

It rejects the implication that man can be divided, into his higher or lower parts, his immortal and his mortal parts.

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.

Certainly man will not become immortal, but will not the interval between the first breath that he draws and the time when in the natural course of events... he expires increase indefinitely?»

Had Adam not sinned, it has been said, man would have been immortal, although what this might entail has not been worked out in any great detail.

The bodies of men after death return to dust, and see corruption: but their souls, (which neither die nor sleep) having an immortal subsistence, immediately return to God who gave them.

[11] An example from Tolkien's own great work of mythology, his Middle Earth Literature [12], would be the decision made by the elven princess, Arwen, to forgo the immortal life in order to cleave to Aragorn (a man)[13].

Man is not a lost atom in a random universe: he is God's creature, whom God chose to endow with an immortal soul and whom he has always loved.

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.

Rom 1:22 Claiming to be wise, they became fools, Rom 1:23 and exchanged the glory of the immortal God for images resembling mortal man and birds and animals and creeping things.

It was new theology when it was written, an immortal expression of man's faith in the universal presence and availability of God, and it was phrased in terms of the threefold Hebrew cosmos with the triumphant conviction that Yahweh was inescapably present throughout the whole of it:

NFP is founded on an attitude of humility in the face of the mystery of fertility, whereby human beings cooperate with God in the creation of an immortal being destined for heaven; contraception is the result of a Baconian - Cartesian «mastery of nature» mentality that puts man in God's place.

In the company of God and of immortal souls even family responsibility is greater and more inclusive than in the company of nations and of men who are regarded as purely temporal beings.

If, therefore, man has become immortal, he will also be God.

no matter the IQ, job, standing or position in life, the idea that you believe that a magic man who lives in the sky will make you immortal if you just blindly obey whatever he says automatically makes you a moron.

Man's place and worth are established, and provided he can disregard any immortal longings he can fit happily into such a comprehensive system.

Calvin maintained that God created man in His own image, that the image is in the soul, and that the soul is immortal and has the power to distinguish between good and evil and between justice and injustice.

Before we become too pessimistic about the inevitable spread of Communism, let us remember that all religions are attempting to say something about man's place in the universe, and are to some extent satisfying his immortal yearnings.

«Each man receives his eternal retribution in his immortal soul at the very moment of his death, in a particular judgment that refers his life to Christ: either entrance into the blessedness of heaven - through a purification or immediately, - or immediate and everlasting damnation.»

The Man: You lack reason and an immortal soul.

The completely absurd theory that all 7,000,000,000 human beings are simultaneously being supervised 24 hours a day, every day of their lives by an immortal, invisible being for the purposes of reward or punishment in the «afterlife» comes from the field of: (a) Astronomy; (b) Medicine; (c) Economics; or (d) Christianity You are about 70 % likely to believe the entire Universe began less than 10,000 years ago with only one man, one woman and a talking snake if you are a: (a) historian; (b) geologist; (c) NASA astronomer; or (d) Christian I have convinced myself that gay $ ex is a choice and not genetic, but then have no explanation as to why only gay people have ho.mo $ exual urges.

(365 - 6) Loss of Coherent Apologetics There has been a long tradition within Catholic catechesis of making a rational case for the immortal nature of man.