Sentences with phrase «of immortal souls»

By mid-October they were haggard, shell - shocked, and sleep - deprived, weighing the cost of their immortal souls against the benefit of getting their students to listen, follow directions, and complete an occasional assignment.

In the company of God and of immortal souls even family responsibility is greater and more inclusive than in the company of nations and of men who are regarded as purely temporal beings.

This democratization of learning neatly fit into Luther's emphasis on the priesthood of all believers, Protestantism's view that individuals should make their own decisions about the future of their immortal souls, and the Renaissance insistence that learning and ideas should be available to all.

Science can never prove or disprove the existence of an all - powerful supernatural being, it can never prove or disprove the existence of an afterlife, of immortal souls, and so on.

The religious census pitch is relatively new among those concerned about the eternal status of immortal souls.

Though the notion of an immortal soul is what pastors and priests preach in churches, since that is what people want so much to believe, many modern theologians reject the view that the doctrine of the immortal soul has always been part of Judaism.

More will be said on the Biblical view of man later, but it is sufficient to point out here, that it is just because the Bible hardly anywhere reflects a doctrine of an immortal soul, that the Christian hope took the form of the resurrection of the body.

Although such a doctrine of an immortal soul is usually appealed to in order to answer questions about the meaning of death, it is logical to assert that the soul, whose existence is independent of the body, may therefore originate independently from the body.

The notion of an immortal soul was not always even part of Judaism.

The second view is akin to the classical Greek vision of an immortal soul being liberated from imprisonment in the physical body.

I've been reading Michael Newton's «Journey of Souls» and the first words in the book are» See through the eyes of the immortal soul.»

Though some texts are distorted to try to prove the idea of an immortal soul, they are in fact just that, distorted to say something that they don't say because they are read with the false lens of this pagan concept.

It has been READ INTO the Bible by Christians who have been indoctrinated with the pagan Greek idea of the immortal soul.

Hartshorne's view of immortality is neither the humanistic one of immortality through posterity nor the Greek one of an immortal soul nor the biblical one of bodily resurrection but a very special one of being eternally remembered in the mind of God.

If immortality of the soul is the case of the immortal soul freed from the body, we might have expected a more Socratic Jesus.

There he refuted the Platonic doctrine of an immortal soul, maintaining that while man is to be understood as the conjunction of two entities, body and soul, these both came into existence simultaneously at the moment of conception.

But Judaism, as we have seen, had already begun to be influenced by the Greek doctrine of an immortal soul even though this was foreign to the heritage of ancient Israel found in the Hebrew Bible.

Under these circumstances theologians and philosophers of the western cultural tradition leaned more and more on the doctrine of an immortal soul as an expression of the Christian hope.

It is serious business, the stewartship of our immortal soul and mortal life.

The contrast, which out of concern for the truth I have found it necessary to draw between the courageous and joyful primitive Christian hope of the resurrection of the dead and the serene philosophic expectation of the survival of the immortal soul, has displeased not only many sincere Christians in all Communions and of all theological outlooks, but also those whose convictions, while not outwardly alienated from Christianity, are more strongly moulded by philosophical considerations.

Believing in the absurd ideas of an immortal soul surviving our own physical deaths to live happily ever after in heaven at the behest of some cosmic John Frum is every bit as silly as anything this cult did.

Don't attempt to create theocratic legislation where a law is based on some supernatural claim of an immortal soul that is magically created when an egg is fertilized.

The Corinthians did not deny a life after death, but they conceived of salvation as the liberation of an immortal soul from the body; they were the «demythologizers» of their day.

If «faith» means thinking the right thoughts about God, then this book could seriously change the destiny of your immortal soul.

«I'm destroying your mortal flesh for the sake of your immortal soul.»

The concept of an immortal soul came from Greek influence and not from the Bible.

Evangelium Vitae states that «God's own image and likeness is transmitted thanks to the creation of the immortal soul.»

How many times have we been assaulted by our parishioners when we challenge the notion of the immortal soul.

The birth of their son triggers a series of medical and existential revelations, slowly teasing out the possibility of an immortal soul transferred from human to human via — what else?

All for the nominal fee of some money off the contract and any future royalties they've managed to secure you, as well as a reasonable portion of your immortal soul.

The concept of an immortal soul is ridiculous.

Not exact matches

Oh, and don't forget we have immortal souls too, because I don't like the idea of not existing in some form or another for the rest of eternity, what I have on this beutiful earth is just not enough to satisfy the greed for more...

An atheist then can justly describe an encounter with a pod of whales, for example, as a spiritual experience while still understanding that he doesn't have an immortal soul.

Search all of scripture and you will never find the phrase «immortal soul» anywhere.

The concept of an undying, immortal soul goes against the Bible, which teaches that souls are subject to death.

Kant's moral argument for the existence of God requires divine «over-power» to make our souls immortal and to actualize the fulfillment of justice.

In the Manichean Psalter the soul on its way to the realm of the immortals says, «I will cast my body upon the earth from which it was assembled... the enemy of the soul» (75:13 ff.).

Just think, we have the free will to choose of to be or not to be with God, we could float out there in that vast space of the universe as immortal souls until eternity experiencing a drastic changes in temperature, or not experiencing hot and cold anymore, and just floating in that vast space without being with God.

Commonly with us, soul and body are sharply distinguished — soul, the immaterial, immortal part of man, and body, the material and perishable, with salvation concerning the soul, and death, the soul's release from its physical habitation.

In the second book of the De anima, in a remark that anticipates his claim in Book three that a part of the soul (the intellect) is separable and immortal, Aristotle appears to allude to the sort of Platonic dualism that he would reject.

He made us to delight in the power of sexual love to bring forth new human beings, children of God, created with immortal souls.

Mascall believes, first, that although the body of man may have evolved, the immortal soul of man was directly created by God and conjoined to his body at some point in the evolutionary ascent.

The soul is therefore immortal and gives us hope of life after death.

The contact with Zoroastrianism, which was the dominant religion within the Achaemenid Empire founded by Cyrus the Great, as well as Hellenic thought led to incorporation of religious ideas from those cultures into Judaism, including the development of notions of an immaterial and immortal soul distinct from the body and a moralized afterlife.

He saw the soul as the source of movement in every body which moved of itself, and because the soul is thus self - moving, it must be unbegotten and immortal.

It further seemed a matter of common - sense to ancient man that this inner spirit or soul, which he knew from the inside and which he witnessed in his fellows, should be immortal or deathless.

The Greeks still have plenty of praying to free their immortal souls from the depths of Hell.

Nevertheless, influenced by more atomistic modes of thinking inherited from the Greeks, many Christians came to think of the self as a soul isolated from the body and cut off from the world by the boundaries of the skin, an immortal substance in a perishable body.

Hartshorne expresses this implied identification of individual immortality with a «soul - substance» when he writes that the notion of an «immortal soul» has «muddled and confused many problems» (CSPM 45).

«Soul» may still refer to the most fundamental level of the person and may be immortal.