This kind of eternal life is also something we can experience and be sure of here on earth.
Not exact matches
It is this
kind of experience which perhaps best explains the meaning
of the traditional term «
eternal life» — which is now not conceived as an extension in time
of our personal existence but as a new dimension
of existence into which one can enter during his natural
life.
WHAT
kind os testimony is it to preach
eternal life of seeing a man half dead???? verysilly is your argument...
We may recall that Christianity is in the first instance a gospel, a proclamation, in which it is declared that the
eternal Reality whom men call God has crowned His endless work
of self - revelation to His human children by a uniquely direct and immediate action: He has come to us in one
of our own
kind, the Man
of Nazareth, uniting to Himself the
life which, through His purpose, was conceived and born
of Mary, and through this
life in its wholeness establishing a new relationship to Himself into which the children
of men may enter.
This was just the
kind of religious
life portrayed in the New Testament, not only as a model and pattern, but as a challenge and inspiration The New Testament was thus the abiding source
of power which enabled man to realize the true
life of religion, and Christ was the
eternal symbol for the cultus
of the Christian Church.
There are echoes here
of Mircea Eliade («the
eternal return»), Albert Schweitzer (reverence for
life), and Jean - Paul Sartre («for and with myself»), but perhaps most
of all the
kind of «Catholic mysticism» which Lowell admired in Gerard Manley Hopkins.
Without it, we need some smart folks to explain it to us because it get's real complicated trying to hold faith, the gospel,
eternal life, salvation, repentance, and all the other teachings together with any
kind of congruity.
With that event a new
kind of life has entered the world,
eternal life,
life of new moral quality and
of strange spiritual power; and this
life is available, in fellowship with Christ (who is still alive!)
The great hope
of this Gospel is not any
kind of reign on earth but «
eternal life,» and even this, far from being a post-mortem goal, is a present, interior possession
of the soul.
The whole world is being exposed to God's message
of eternal life, there for the asking, without measuring up or meeting some
kind of impossible criterion (Grace is unmerited favor with God), just as you are.
I mean, honestly, what
kind of bovine excrement omniscient being designs a universe that obeys a set
of rules (physics), but designs a sentient being that He will then cast into
eternal torment at death — no matter how good the being was during its
life — unless that being has faith in His son?
This
kind of plot is actually surprisingly common for fighting games, showing up in games like
Eternal Champions, Pray for Death, and Fight for
Life, but the twist here is that the nine playable characters are all actually in Hell.
«It's this
kind of notion that art may itself be
eternal in some way, but
life certainly isn't,» Cameron adds.
Or do they
live in a
kind of eternal present, in which old cherries are utterly forgotten, and new cherries continually sought?