Sentences with phrase «immortal souls from»

’28 He concluded his book with the words, «But the sons of Abraham, with their victorious mother, are gathered together unto the place of their ancestors, having received pure and immortal souls from God, to whom be glory for ever and ever.

The Greeks still have plenty of praying to free their immortal souls from the depths of Hell.

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.

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Id add my own: If a god, any god, Christian,,, doesn't matter created the whole works, why is this Power very regional... with our «immortal souls» at risk — you would think that this God would have had a better press corp, a better travel agency... to the point that he could have gone gobal from the start.

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.).

It is because we have immortal souls that, apart from sin, we would have been immortal in body as well.

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.

Although such a doctrine of an immortal soul is usually appealed to in order to answer questions about the meaning of death, it is logical to assert that the soul, whose existence is independent of the body, may therefore originate independently from the body.

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.

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.

Nevertheless, influenced by more atomistic modes of thinking inherited from the Greeks, many Christians came to think of the self as a soul isolated from the body and cut off from the world by the boundaries of the skin, an immortal substance in a perishable body.

The second view is akin to the classical Greek vision of an immortal soul being liberated from imprisonment in the physical body.

If immortality of the soul is the case of the immortal soul freed from the body, we might have expected a more Socratic Jesus.

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 eternity.

I can totally get «wouldn't it be cool if our sense of consciousness survived our physical deaths and we got to hang out with the consciousnesses of all the people we loved who died» but the jump from that to «I'm positive we have immortal souls» seems too much like wishful thinking that's been codified by some form of group consensus.

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 orthodox teaching is that people burn «in hell» forever, but that mostly comes from the unbiblical idea of the «immortal soul,» a concept that does not exist in the Bible.

At that instant of time when I gave all up to him to do with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure, redeeming love broke into my soul with repeated scriptures, with such power that my whole soul seemed to be melted down with love; the burden of guilt and condemnation was gone, darkness was expelled, my heart humbled and filled with gratitude, and my whole soul, that was a few minutes ago groaning under mountains of death, and crying to an unknown God for help, was now filled with immortal love, soaring on the wings of faith, freed from the chains of death and darkness, and crying out, My Lord and my God; thou art my rock and my fortress, my shield and my high tower, my life, my joy, my present and my everlasting portion.

In Plato the two primary Greek meanings for «theos», immortal and soul, coalesce, as they had earlier in the Pythagorean religious tradition, rooted in the Orphic mystery cults as distinguished from the popular Greek religion of the Olympic gods.

Stemming from this belief are all sorts of other ones, such as the belief in an immortal soul, so that when we die we simply continue in another form, and (if we're lucky) do so in a glorious place called heaven.

And the Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms clearly: «The Church teaches that every spiritual soul is created immediately by God - it is not «produced» by the parents - and also that it is immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death, and it will be reunited with the body at the final Resurrection.»

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.

The concept of an immortal soul came from Greek influence and not from the Bible.

At its most fundamental level, Christianity requires a belief that an all - knowing, all - powerful, immortal being created the entire observable Universe and its billions of galaxies about 13,720,000,000 years ago (the approximate age of the current iteration of the Universe) sat back and waited 10,000,000,000 years for the Earth to form, then waited another 3,720,000,000 years for human beings to gradually evolve, then, at some point in our evolution from Hom.o Erectus, gave us eternal life and a soul, and about 180,000 years later, sent its son to Earth to talk about sheep and goats in Greco - Roman Palestine.

For in their faith they are vindicated as immortal souls, and from this enhancement of their dignity they find the reason why they must offer a perpetual challenge to the dominion of men over men.

The birth of their son triggers a series of medical and existential revelations, slowly teasing out the possibility of an immortal soul transferred from human to human via — what else?

The young djinn bonds her immortal soul with the prince's, allowing him to recover from certain death (since the game lacks the time - rewinding powers of the Sands of Time series) and later to manifest various powers that will help him to release the lost kingdom from its curse.

If you say the bible, Aristotle, Plato (who decided animals did not have immortal souls, and also advocated lying for a supposedly good cause), or Church doctrine then you yourself are arguing from alleged authority.

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