Sentences with phrase «live beyond death»

But there is, at least, an interpretation offered, and it is theological: God was at work in these events, bringing death to an institution that had outlived its usefulness and working new life beyond that death.

He shared our human death; and I remain convinced that his entry into life beyond death was not dissimilar in its mode from ours.

I do not think, for instance, that the idea of the life beyond death ever becomes vividly and intensely real to us until someone we loved has died.

Such a Resurrection, moreover, would offer in itself no promise of risen life beyond death for those who have to face both death and corruption.

So in I Corinthians, having asked how the dead are raised, he attempts to answer the question by saying, on the one hand, that there is some kind of real, though indefinable, continuity between our present bodily mode of existence and the life beyond death, and, on the other, that there is discontinuity also.

When there is more talk of heaven in novels, television shows and pop songs than in sermons, Christians must shoulder some of the blame for the fact that visions of life beyond death fail to include God.

Perhaps because embedded in every dream of life beyond death lies the threat of discontinuity.

It is obvious that at the very time when life beyond death is no longer a matter of vital importance, there is an increasing emphasis on the worth of human personality.

If something like this is the case, then a highly individualistic and self - centered interest in and desire for life beyond death will not make much sense.

Before I state it, however, I must say that there is no reason why the more traditional position, both about life beyond death as a subjective (and hence personal) reality for each of us and also with respect to the traditional portrayal of the «last things» (including an intermediate state), may not be accepted by those who find it compelling.

The Buddhist desire for annihilation is taken to be proof of this, since with no conception of God, whose companionship could illuminate life beyond death and make it a joy to be desired, such a life would be a fate to be feared and avoided.

The Christians, in their way, agree with the classical philosophers that the glory that was Rome is nothing in light of eternity — although by eternity they mean the life beyond death that the personal God makes possible for each particular person.

The question under debate is whether the character of Job is here intentionally represented as affirming faith that he will achieve his justification with God in life beyond death; or whether the redeemer is in the original sense of the word (in Hebrew, go'el), the kinsman who, in this case, succeeds in ultimately exonerating Job.

«3 The term «eternal life» seems to point rather more unambiguously to the fulfillment of the good in life beyond death, yet in the fourth gospel, for which this is the central symbol, eternal life means a relationship to God in which man participates in this world.

It is in the Book of Job, therefore, that we find what has been called «the first tentative demand for a life beyond death.»

For Paul, if there is to be a future life beyond death, it must encompass a resurrection of the whole person.

The previous chapter ended with the affirmation that we can have assurance and hope without precise knowledge of the nature of the final consummation of God's purposes in the coming of the kingdom, even as we can have a similar assurance of the individual's life beyond death.

In Christian theology, the term «eschatology» formerly meant a study of the «last things,» i.e. death and life beyond death.

Based on the acclaimed novel by the «Queen of Icelandic Crime,» this atmospheric chiller is both a hair - raising ghost story and a powerful tale of life beyond death.

Not exact matches

Permanent life insurance policies cover the policyholder for their entire life and build cash value beyond the death benefit.

The best way to have an after - life is to do as Hawking, Einstein and MLK have done: make a positive impact during your life, which will last beyond your death.

However, it is far beyond a blind leap of faith, as the Bible and the life, death, resurrection and ascension of Jesus are evidence that there is a God and that He loves us enough to provide a way for salvation even though we as sinners don't deserve it.

Every person, in the grand experience of their life will go beyond that shroud after death and discover God.

Those who feel lonely and lost and long forgotten, get to feel the fullness of the only Love who has ever loved them to death, and back to the realest life, the Love who woos and heals wounds, who whispers Beloved and Bride, whose passion proves even we are worthy of being loved beyond this world.

This knowledge will change forever how we live, how we face death and how we begin to see beyond the grave.

I have entered territory that extends beyond the safe boundaries of what I know, wandering by way of the sea, as well as the far - off lands where Paul will soon be wrestling with the Corinthians over what it means to be baptized into Christ, and into his death and new life.

It is often claimed that a literal belief in conscious personal survival beyond death is necessary for either a meaningful or a moral earthly life.

How could I refuse this chalice, Lord, now that through the bread you have given me there has crept into the marrow of my being an inextinguishable longing to be united with you beyond life; through death?

The Good News is dynamic, not static; is life, not death, not after death; is growth, not stunted development; is moving forward and moving beyond my current existence and is moving forward and moving beyond my current understanding of my existence and of God.

Jesus said that in the new world, people will neither marry nor be given in marriage; having passed beyond death into resurrection, with no prospect of death, there will be no need for reproduction and hence we may assume no desire for it, just as now as a 64 - year old I no longer have a desire to play rugby though there was a time when I lived for it.

In the area of knowledge, religion's weakness is not in questions it raises but in its attempt to give dogmatic answers: Beyond the myths about the origin, end and meaning of life, beyond the alienated notions of transcendence and death, there exists the concrete dialectic of finite and infinite, and this remains a living reality as long as we remain aware that it is not in the order of answer but in the order of queBeyond the myths about the origin, end and meaning of life, beyond the alienated notions of transcendence and death, there exists the concrete dialectic of finite and infinite, and this remains a living reality as long as we remain aware that it is not in the order of answer but in the order of quebeyond the alienated notions of transcendence and death, there exists the concrete dialectic of finite and infinite, and this remains a living reality as long as we remain aware that it is not in the order of answer but in the order of question.

Some Catholics, going beyond the bishops and the Pope, maintain that the death penalty, like abortion and euthanasia, is a violation of the right to life and an unauthorized usurpation by human beings of God's sole lordship over life and death.

And in his «Ingersoll Lectures,» Immortality and the Cosmic Process, he saw this movement of life toward the personal continuing beyond death.

This thrust toward immortality can be expressed in, a variety of ways — biologically by living on through one's sons or daughters or one's community or nation, theologically through resurrection or eternal life, or culturally through works and contributions which persist beyond ones death.

And philosophy is nothing more than living constantly in light of the finality of death and has no moral content beyond what's good for philosophy.

It is unwarranted to suppose that the Judge of all the earth remits these penalties in life or beyond death if persons persistently and impenitently refuse his grace.

What little is left of my Christianity is a vague hope that there's something beyond this life so that death is not the end, but that's it.

Few of us live beyond our three score and ten years and yet in that brief time most of us create and live a unique biography and weave ourselves into the fabric of human history [On Death and Dying (Macmillan, 1969), p. 276].

We need a life not correlated with death, a health not liable to illness, a kind of good that will not perish, a good in fact that flies beyond the Goods of nature.

The life and death of Jesus are not simply events in time; they are windows into the eternal heart of God, whereby we see the suffering and redeeming love of God which has been suffering and redeeming since the beginning of time and will be beyond the end of time.

If refusal to face squarely the fact of death is found so widely in these days, so also is loss of belief in a continuation of human existence, beyond death, in what used to be called the «after - life» It is indeed true that among conventionally - minded church - people and many others there is a vague feeling that when the body dies the «soul» goes on.

Everybody, whether or not he puts the question vocally, wants to know whether life has any meaning, what his relation is to «whatever gods there be,» why he is here, what his destiny is, how sin and pain may be overcome, whether prayer matters, what lies beyond death for himself and his loved ones.

A possible real connection with the animal kingdom is itself of relatively little theological importance, for anything in it that would be important for the theological interpretation of human life in the present, can also be known without it, that is to say, the vulnerability of man in face of the powers of this earth, man's temptation to see himself from the point of view of his animality, his liability to death, man's dynamic orientation and task of developing to his perfection from below upwards, beyond his beginnings.

He who is ready to surrender his hopes, ambitions, and life itself, for the love of God and his fellowmen, no longer fears death and the end of human existence, for that self - centered concern which wants to cling on to life beyond its appointed span, and seeks to bring it back again in some supernatural realm, has already died.

But this was a dim and vague affair, presumably taken to be a way in which the «spirit» breathed into human life when God shaped the «dust of the earth,» as the legend in Genesis tells the story, would never be utterly destroyed — after all, it had been breathed by God and hence must be indestructible even if largely irrelevant to whatever the future, beyond death, held for men and women.

Or is he to surrender all these pretensions and aspirations for himself either in this mortal life or beyond death?

Not proven beyond a doubt but by referencing various written works by many of his «disciples» and others (monks etc) over 600 years AD who all had the exact same story though threatened with death etc it seems HE did live.

When the pastor speaks of faith in eternal life, he will try to show that this faith is a declaration about present reality, not only a promise of something beyond death.

The Christian is called to the way of the cross not for any self - gain either in this life or beyond death, but simply and solely out of the love of God and one's fellows.

In these terms, the proposition that Jesus lives on subjectively is the supreme instance of some more general proposition as to individual survival after death: to reach a decision as to this supreme instance one would first have to investigate the general concept of resurrection, which lies beyond our present task.25 It must here suffice to answer that these proposals neither affirm nor deny the doctrine that both Jesus and the «souls of the righteous» live on subjectively.