Seeking for
immortality becomes the quest of characters in Tuck Everlasting and Star Trek: Insurrection.
To glimpse the depth of love that is at work in this blessed exchange (our mortality becoming his,
his immortality becoming ours) we need to discern the depth of humiliation behind it; and for that, we need to understand that mortality and corruption really are alien to his divine nature.Our Lord was not forced to lower himself so far as to share our materiality, flesh, and death.
Not exact matches
We can
become gods, but» as the Church Fathers put it» only by the grace of adoption, for divine
immortality does not belong to us by nature.
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.
By such a course of milk nourishment we
become accustomed to eat and drink the Word of God and may be able also to contain in ourselves the Bread of
immortality, which is the Spirit of the Father».
If we turn to the question of nonbelief in personal
immortality, the consensus
becomes more striking.
The most powerful, self - sacrificing love is revealed in the Bible as God Himself
became a man to die for the sins off the world.The Bible alone reveals the plan of salvation and the conditions that must be met by all to have
immortality aand a life that measures with that of Gods.
An actual entity is to be conceived both as a subject presiding over its own immediacy of
becoming, and a superject which is the atomic creature exercising its function of objective
immortality.
Mithra Was born of a virgin on December 25th, in a cave, attended by shepherds Was considered a great traveling teacher and master Had 12 companions or disciples Promised his followers
immortality Performed miracles Sacrificed himself for world peace Was buried in a tomb and after three days rose again Was celebrated each year at the time of His resurrection (later to
become Easter) Was called «the Good Shepherd» Was identified with both the Lamb and the Lion Was considered to be the «Way, the Truth and the Light,» and the «Logos,» «Redeemer,» «Savior» and «Messiah.»
It is clear that Mbiti does not really mean «
immortality» because he goes on to tell us that the «living dead» do eventually die insofar as sooner or later, perhaps generations later, the surviving community will forget the contributions and even the name of the deceased person at which time s / he
becomes «completely dead» / dead - dead.
Our lives
become all jumbled, and we push consideration of death and
immortality aside, as if by doing so we can avoid facing these negative feelings.
Also, what
becomes of the objective
immortality of «forgotten» or lost events?
The
immortality of an event is that it
becomes a living, ever - present fact in God.
«The consequent nature of God is the fluent world
become «everlasting» by its objective
immortality in God.»
The quest for an adequate Christian eschatology has too often
become narrowed down to the concern for personal
immortality.
In the course of time resurrection was increasingly orientated to the interests of the individual person, so that it
became the Christian form of the hope of personal
immortality, guaranteed by the affirmation of the Easter proclamation.
As the historian Caroline Walker Bynum has summarized Bernard's views, «the glorified body... will possess
immortality so it does not
become dust, impassibility so that it does not experience suffering or disorder, lightness so it will have none of the downward pull of weight, and beauty so it will be clear and shining, with no spot of shadow or dirtiness.»
It had
become one standard idiom among others for the description of the hope of personal
immortality.
Important consequences result: we
become everlasting by our objective
immortality in God.
The adaptation of Christianity to the an - thropocentric faith appeared in other ways: in the attenuation of the conviction of sin and of the necessity of rebirth, in the substitution of the human claim to
immortality for the Christian hope and fear of an after - life, in the glorification of religious heroes, and in the efforts of religious men and societies to
become saviors.
For his theory of
becoming Whitehead appealed to Plato, particularly to Taylor's interpretation of Plato: cf. PR 67 - 70; also his essay, «
Immortality,» first appearing in The Library of Living Philosophers III (ed.
«An actual entity is to be conceived both as a subject presiding over its own immediacy of
becoming, and a superject which is the atomic creature exercising its function of objective
immortality» (PR 45 / 71).
Gingerly, I approach this problem of the subjective
immortality of the «resurrected» into an everlasting God by envisioning God's continuous process of
becoming as comprehending the regions defined by all of the processes of
becoming that are God's creatures, even as the spacio - temporal regions coordinated by and responsive to the «presiding occasions» of our bodies include the regions defined by our various bodily occasions.
Along with this, the philosophical notions about soul, about
immortality, about a realm above and beyond the hurly - burly of this world, present in the tradition of Greek philosophy and variations on that philosophy in the early Christian era, had
become so much part of the atmosphere of thought that inevitably these two affected Christian thinkers.
Each story is analyzed with respect to one of the themes indicated by the five organizing chapters: «On
Becoming a Real Human Child,» «Love and
Immortality,» «Friends and Mentors,» «Evil and Redemption,» and «Heroines of Faith and Courage.»
This thought receives further development at the hands of Socrates, and it ultimately
becomes the point of concentration for the pathos of the Greek consciousness, since it serves as a proof for the
immortality of the soul; but with a backward reference, it is important to note, and hence as proof for the soul's preëxistence.1
The
becoming of the occasion perishes so that it may have being, and that being persists beyond the limits of that moment; this is the meaning of objective
immortality....
Rather, the doctrine of internal relations asserts that despite the fact that each occasion perishes as it
becomes, the occasion (in the state of objective
immortality)
becomes part of new actual occasions.
Immortality and resurrection, though distinct, have
become so intertwined in Jewish and Christian thought as to be indecipherable apart from each other.
We are indeed, moment by moment, likewise being taken up into the divine nature and «resurrected» into objective
immortality where we
become part of the prehendable data for future occasions.
In the satisfaction of an actual occasion the process of
becoming which can be described as the transition from indeterminateness to determinateness comes to an end, and with it the subjective immediacy of the occasion perishes.4 With this satisfaction the objective
immortality begins, namely, the functioning in respect to other processes of
becoming.
The idea that it is within man's grasp to
become like the gods (and so attain
immortality) is now set in the mouth of the wily serpent as the very temptation most likely to lead the woman astray.
To make stem cells the basis for safe medical treatments, however, the field would need the ability to tightly control stem cell pluripotency, the ability to
become many cell types, and self - renewal or
immortality, the ability to keep dividing and multiplying over time in constant turnover.
Centuries later, on meeting his one true love, Dr. Parnassus made another deal with the devil, trading his
immortality for youth, on condition that when his daughter reaches her 16th birthday, she will
become the property of Mr. Nick.
Manji, a highly skilled samurai,
becomes cursed with
immortality after a legendary battle.
Blade of the Immortal: Manji, a highly skilled samurai,
becomes cursed with
immortality after a legendary battle.
The scene where Renton and Sick Boy go on a credit - card - stealing spree at a Battle of the Boyne celebration night and end up
becoming the entertainment is surely destined for YouTube
immortality, and the pair's deadpan application for council funding for an artisanal leisure destination (a bordello, in fact) is satirical gold.
It chronicles the hardships that shaped him, including abandonment by his father in the harsh winter wilderness, the tragedy that marked him forever and the two women who guided him to
immortality, putting him on the path to
becoming one of the most influential Presidents in United States history.
Golden - boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in»80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara
becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9 / 11, hoping to control fate; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and
immortality.
But when Ludovico's grand plan to control Europe begins to crumble,
immortality through art
becomes a luxury, and the two sisters must choose between familial loyalty and survival in the treacherous political climate.
There's little story to speak of, and what is there is poorly told, mostly focusing on Bryce's job as a demon hunter while intermittently throwing in flashbacks showing how he
became cursed with
immortality.
My favorite parts are when the permeability of the screen is made clear: when the diegesis
becomes our world and when cinema's prosthetic memory
becomes a site for
immortality.
In these and other letters (which were donated to the Smithsonian Archives of American Art) Bess makes it clear that his paintings were only part of a grander theory, based on alchemy, the philosophy of Carl Jung, and the rituals of Australian aborigines, which proposed that
becoming a hermaphrodite was the key to
immortality.
His quest for
immortality began soon after he
became king of the Qin state in 246 BC.
Viewed in the context of Prince's recent death, however, the painting
becomes an unavoidable representation of celebrity mortality (and
immortality).
Lara Croft
becomes more than a survivor as she embarks on her first Tomb Raiding expedition to the most treacherous regions of Siberia, in search of the secret of
immortality.