Sentences with phrase «in the immortality of»

Lincoln did not believe in the immortality of the soul, but his is probably floating down one or all of the 5 rivers of Hades: 1.

The human person's body and soul were harmoniously united and his body would have naturally shared in the immortality of his soul.

I was a firm believer in immortality of the soul until I had general anesthesia for surgery.

LJ - «I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.»

The Greek belief in the immortality of the soul is yet another.

Indeed for the Greeks who believed in the immortality of the soul it may have been harder to accept the Christian preaching of the resurrection than it was for others.

On his missionary journeys Paul surely met people who were unable to believe in his preaching of the resurrection for the very reason that they believed in the immortality of the soul.

Belief in the immortality of the soul is not belief in a revolutionary event.

Even those who believe in the immortality of the soul do not have the hope of which Paul speaks, the hope which expresses the belief of a divine miracle of new creation which will embrace everything, every part of the world created by God.

This remarkable agreement seems to me to show how widespread is the mistake of attributing to primitive Christianity the Greek belief in the immortality of the soul.

They do not believe in the immortality of the soul.

«The belief that the soul continues its existence after the dissolution of the body is... nowhere expressly taught in Holy Scripture... The belief in the immortality of the soul came to the Jews from contact with Greek thought and chiefly through the philosophy of Plato its principle exponent, who was led to it, through Orphic and Eleusinian mysteries in which Babylonian and Egyptian views were strangely blended» (The Jewish Encyclopedia, article, «Immortality of the Soul»).

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

The reason for Socrates's serenity in the face of death, Cullmann proposes, is the Greek belief in the immortality of the soul.

Believing in the immortality of the soul, they are fearless in battle».

Not exact matches

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.

I realize that non-literal nuances are difficult for those who NEED to only think in simplistic childish term, but that doesn't change the fact, the Hebrews did not believe in immortality the way it's thought of today... «By the sweat of your brow you will eat your food until you return to the ground, since from it you were taken; for dust you are and to dust you will return.»

Abraham Geiger, a major thinker in the nineteenth - century Reform movement, declared that the idea of a postmortem existence «should not be expressed in terms which suggest a future revival, a resurrection of the body; rather they must stress the immortality of the soul.»

But since you wondered, this is the mind - set of someone who is not interested in immortality.

Of one who seeks not merely immortality but also eternal life in addition to immortality.

«Paul told the members of the congregation in Rome to «seek» immortality (Romans: 2:5 - 7).

«Our Messiah, who came to us in the form of a mortal man, but who by his suffering and crucifixion attained immortality.

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.

(CNN)- President Abraham Lincoln was a «theist and a rationalist» who doubted «the immortality of the soul,» a close friend said in a letter that provides a rare, intimate glimpse into the Civil War president's religious views.

Again, all engaged in the same purposes «To bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.»

«He was an artist and she would bear his children and wash his clothes and care for him because there lay her immortality, there lay her own contribution to the great effort to speak the truth, to shape words, to write the novel that by existing would justify the human endeavor, an endeavor so clearly in need of justification,» she writes observing Doc Humes» wife.

Belief in immortality and the certainty of divine judgment are indispensable supports of public virtue, our founders thought.

And especially after the Noachian Flood, did false religion take a leap, with false religious doctrines and practices such as the trinity, immortality of the soul, that God torments people in a «hellfire», the establishment of a clergy class, the teaching of «personal salvation» as more important than the sanctification of God's name of Jehovah (Matt 6:9), the sitting in a church while a religious leader preaches a sermon, but the «flock» is not required to do anything more, except put money when the basket is passed.

In modern societies, Weber argued, the biblical God must compete with worldly gods such as aesthetic experience, material success, nationalistic fervor, erotic pleasure, and the many other forms of self - transcendence and this - worldly immortality that call out to our inner demons.

The second is eternal conscious torment rather than conditional immortality (aka anihilationism), and Jesus said «fear him who can DESTROY both body and soul in hell» and Psalm 37:20 «But the wicked shall perish, and the enemies of the Lord shall be as the fat of lambs: they shall consume; into smoke shall they consume away.»

The delusion of immortality and the claim that a few billion dollars more will «help find a cure» for this ill or that sustains a research industry that is as prone to exploiting desperate hopes as to engaging in experiments of dubious morality.

But the God of Israel declares that though they are gods in some sense, they do not have the immortality that they suppose.

Hebrew thought developed this idea rather than immortality, first, because the Hebrews had a vivid sense of the goodness of material bodily existence; and second, because they understood the necessary unity of the person not as a soul - in - body but as a whole living, feeling, thinking personality.

While it is impossible in a scientific age to consider any literal acceptance of the doctrine of resurrection, it does point even better than the doctrine of immortality to some of the fundamentals of religious experience mentioned above.

One of the major factors in concentrating attention on the individual has always been faith in some form of immortality.

In this regard the indirect results of the rising faith in immortality seem at times as important as the substance of the faith itselIn this regard the indirect results of the rising faith in immortality seem at times as important as the substance of the faith itselin immortality seem at times as important as the substance of the faith itself.

My mind yearns to build a fantasy world where it can pretend it is immune from all danger, weakness and ultimately death, and where it can exalt itself in a dream of invincibility and immortality.

The presence of a snake that steals a plant of immortality from the hero later in the epic is another point of contact.

As we shall see in a succeeding chapter, so persistent was this realistic manner of thinking that, however sublimated, it still underlies and is necessary to explain the Jewish - Christian passages on immortality in the New Testament.

If we view the soul as an effective social system for the procurement of intense experience, we can legitimately apply to it Whitehead's statement in «Immortality» that «the more effective social systems involve a large infusion of various soils of personalities as subordinate elements in their make - up — for example, an animal body, or a society of animals, such as human beings» (IMM 690).

If we are to rest on the solid ground of communicable experience, we must return in our discussion of immortality to the basic experiences which give rise to the belief.

Without grace, belief in immortality is irreligious because it reflects central concern with the selfish preservation of the self.

If you judge me worthy, Lord God, I would show to those whose lives are dull and drab the limitless horizons opening out to humble and hidden efforts; for these efforts, if pure in intention, can add to the extension of the incarnate Word a further element — an element known to Christ's heart and gathered up into his immortality.

Building on the Platonic understanding of hell as the place where unpunished violations of justice are requited, Schall argues it is the consequence of our free will («the other side of human dignity») and of the significance of human action, opening up trains of thought in the direction of the immortality of the soul and the resurrection of the body - and finding this all pleasurable, «even amusing» (p. 121) in terms of logic and reason.

Nevertheless, the Christian faith in immortality has an important connection with the idea of man's dignity and worth, for according to the Christian outlook every human soul has a value great enough to be appropriately thought imperishable.

In other words, the earthly, matter - bound origin of human nature calls forth God's greatest act of loving care and humility — the Incarnation of God the Word through which humanity is united to Godhead in a union more intimate than with any other creature and gradually raised to immortalitIn other words, the earthly, matter - bound origin of human nature calls forth God's greatest act of loving care and humility — the Incarnation of God the Word through which humanity is united to Godhead in a union more intimate than with any other creature and gradually raised to immortalitin a union more intimate than with any other creature and gradually raised to immortality.

Today this teaching is rarely regarded as easy to defend coherently, and even more rarely does it have an essential place in catechetical schemes, or in defences of human dignity, freedom and immortality.

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».

See also Edward Feser, Aquinas (Oxford: OneWorld, 2009), 155ff and Herbert McCabe, «The Immortality of the Soul», in Aquinas: A Collection of Critical Essays, ed.

Its implications for death and immortality have not been drawn out very extensively; so this book is an attempt to contribute to the extension of relational theology in that direction.