Sentences with phrase «in earthly existence»

What I am saying is THE MESSAAGE or evangel is NOT primarily some humanitarian» love» but a message about WHAT Christ was to do and DID — fulfill the promise given to Abraham and symbolized in the Mosaic sacrafice: i.e. the atone and» shelter ALL Israel, whether they believed or not in their earthly existence.

It is not merely some one part of our make - up which will be brought to life again: naked, as it were, and without any mode of self - identification and self - expression corresponding, in a spiritual existence, to the physical body in our earthly existence.

Not exact matches

The faith it takes to not believe in something beyond a earthly existence is the greatest faith of all.

But this new goal, coming «to share in the divine nature», is not tacked on to the end of our earthly existence as an afterthought; rather, this new goal changes the whole trajectory of our earthly lives.

It is probably impossible to describe the next stage of existence in earthly terms, and it would be childish to take literally the picture - language of the New Testament writers who make some attempt to hint at its unimaginable splendors and possibilities.

Now although Christianity leads human thoughts and aspirations far beyond the limitations of this present stage of existence, and is thus in a sense an other - worldly religion, it is also incurably earthly.

They approach God in faith and in the activities that fill their earthly, bodily existences.

Dear brothers and sisters, Blessed John Paul II reminded us that «man is called to a fullness of life which far exceeds the dimensions of his earthly existence, because it consists in sharing the very life of God».4 The sexual intimacy of marriage, the most intimate kind of human friendship, is a pathway to sharing in God's own life.

And indeed the Kingdom of God and death are alike in this — that both the Kingdom and death imply the end of earthly human existence as we know it, with its possibilities and interests.

Whatever transformation has taken place or will take place in her existence, it is a transformation of an actual life that this corpse was integrally part of as her earthly body.

The chief points of change are, first, that the scene has been transferred from the supernatural world of the gods to the earthly sphere of human history; secondly, that It is not a god who experiences the renewal of life (for the God of Israel is not himself subject to death and resurrection, but on the contrary initiates and controls these events) but the people of Israel, who look in hope for restoration when their existence is threatened; and thirdly, that this hope is expressed as a metaphor describing the historical future, rather than as a myth of cosmic renewal.

Growth in grace involves maturity in the kind of attachment we have to the goods of this earthly existence.

Personally, knowing I have an expiration date and it's well within 100 years at this point (unless technology unlocks secrets in the genome to prolong life) I feel it's well worth living that life rather than presuming that at one point I'll detach from my earthly existence and spend the remainder of eternity in a knew, unknowable place that's supposed to be the ti.ts but no one can actually pin down what the specifics would be.

In an extensive investigation of Gregory's views on gender, marriage, exegesis, death, virtue and the church, he concludes that Gregory's «anagogical or upward transposition leaves behind the objects of earthly, embodied existence.»

How much more could young people participate fully in the sacrifice of the Mass by being with Christ at Calvary, by being united with all souls in Heaven and Purgatory, and by receiving Christ's Body and Blood, therefore being closer to Him than at any other point of their earthly existence?

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God reawakens us to life after death in another realm beyond this earthly existence.

Let it be granted that Paul has little of any kind to say about the earthly life; still, one would have expected some hint of the existence of extraordinary wonders in the career of Jesus if he had known of them.

Bultmann's «earthly existence» is somewhat dangerous, for it could be taken in a Gnostic sense.

They do not operate on different planes of existence, with the heavenly city spiritual in the sense of having no earthly embodiment, and the earthly city simply equivalent to any temporal project or endeavor.

That place can be a paradise free from the evils and insecurities of earthly existence, or it may simply be a place in the records of history or the lives of one's offspring.

The «second coming» is a somewhat «mythical» or metaphorical concept used to indicate the New Testament faith in the power of God (manifested in the resurrection) to conquer the conditions that now define our earthly existence, particularly the condition of man's sinfulness.

His existence in His earthly life ended but He continued His life existing in the spirit inside the earth, in Hades, before He resurrected.

If Christians truly believe the ineffable» mystery of God» took on human flesh, became the definitive translation» living Word» of this mystery so beyond us, yet present to us in the living Word and» translation» of Jesus Christ, then our knowing or not knowing is never an endless seeking, but a finding not exhausted of its meaning during our time of earthly existence.

The first is that eternity is a quality of life; it is participation without the right of duration, in the case of man, in the life everlasting; the second is that life is a continual stream of choices and consequences, of living and dying, of repeated reincarnations in this world; and the third is that God reawakens us to life after death in another realm beyond this earthly existence.

Everything works together to lead «the called - one» to this understanding: earthly and heavenly powers, the natural and physical modes of existence, the driving psychical powers, the inner impulse and outer guidance, the perception of the world and its experiences, the secret revelation which lies in the consciousness of his own being.

Thus it was possible for Jesus to speak in such a way as to suggest the contrast between the obscurity of his indigent earthly existence and the glory of the «Man» from heaven — the contrast and at the same time the connection — for the needy life belongs to the concealment of the Son of Man and points to the future.

They're interested in a shell of electrons hundreds of kilometers overhead, which is responsible for heavenly light shows, GPS navigation and the continued existence of all earthly beings.

Earthly existence is a lot like farming: The seeds you begin to sow this January will be the harvest you reap in January 2018.