Sentences with phrase «on eternal existence»

Finding ancient writings on eternal existence during one of his last expeditions makes him come back there in search of the meaning of life itself.

Finding ancient writings on eternal existence during one of his last expeditions, makes him come back there in search of the meaning of life itself.

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They say then that it is more simple to believe at once in the eternal pre-existence of the world, as it is now going on, and may for ever go on by the principle of reproduction which we see and witness, than to believe in the eternal pre-existence of an ulterior cause, or Creator of the world, a being whom we see not, and know not, of whose form substance and mode or place of existence, or of action no sense informs us, no power of the mind enables us to delineate or comprehend.

@ karl: is your god so petty and paranoid that he would visit eternal punishment on one of his creations — that he is supposed to love — just because that creation decided to use its brain to question the existence of this god?

According to catholic teaching, the existence of hell, of a state of eternal damnation, is an article of faith (as indeed, given free will and evil, it is a logical necessity); but that some human beings are or will be in fact damned is not an article of faith (though again logically it must be regarded as a possibility): hence Pere Teilhard's prayer further on in this passage.

Existence is an «expression» of God with creation being a short line on Gods eternal landscape.

He posits essences characterized in terms mostly the same as Whitehead's eternal objects, but the «pure being» which they possess is not dependant on any home they may find in particular existences.

Of equal importance, it is based on an eternal human need: «the need of man to feel his own house as a room in some greater, all - embracing structure in which he is at home, to feel that the other inhabitants of it with whom he lives and works are all acknowledging and confirming his individual existence.»

In speaking about his views of eternity on Wednesday, answering a question from a caller based in Atlanta, Romney was echoing Mormon beliefs about the eternal nature of human existence.

I interpret the Genesis story of our exile from the Garden where there was access to the Tree of Life (temporal immortality) not as punishment; but as placing a limit on temporal existence to keep us focused on Eternal values.

Among Lutherans there was a drift toward natural theology in which the existence of God and the moral law were treated apart from the special revelation of God in Jesus Christ In Reformed circles, there was both a fascination with natural theology and a concentration on the eternal decrees of God.

The term «resurrection of the dead» should not be interpreted as a hope for the prolongation or restoration of our own conscious existence, but rather a hope that human life has meaning, that when our conscious existence is ended, the historical life we have lived may be raised before the eternal Judge, and may be vindicated, as being of some value for that Kingdom which is eternal and for whose fuller manifestation on earth we ever pray.

The difference, however is always great: man's existence is totally dependent on God's act of creation whereas God's existence is eternal, infinite, omnipotent and dependent onnothing else.

This is such a huge subject that I must beg indulgence, therefore, if I give my space to but a small fraction of the historic faith — namely its main emphases on God, Christ, the Church, and eternal life — and consider only these in our modem context, in the effort to discover what values they may have for men and women who are tossed about in an unsettled world, with an uncertain future, and doomed — almost certainly it seems — to a doubtful truce of arms, at worst to a war which threatens to annihilate man as we have known him and in any event to leave us a bare existence such as we can eke out on a totally devastated planet.

I just realized that an eternal being creating the universe in 7 days and 8000 years of total existence defies the logic of what has been proven by some of the brightest minds ever to live on this planet.

We shall perceive the eternal justice of things; for we shall recognise that the world is itself the Last Judgment on it, and we shall begin to understand why it is that everything that lives must pay the penalty of its existence, first in living and then in dying.

On the other hand, Whitehead's doctrine of creativity does require the existence of a God, not as creator but as the ultimate source of eternal objects and, thus, of both novelty and order.

On this side, the abstract nature of mathematics, again extended to include non-mathematical things, provides the necessity of assuming the existence of an independent realm of eternal objects.

Eternal life means no solitary or static «going on» in some bare existence devoid of meaning.

I must frequently reflect on the fact that I have been created by God for Eternal life and all my earthly existence is meant to be a preparation for it.

Stephen Strange has an ego, and is the best neurosurgeon the world has ever seen, but unlike Tony Stark, he is unable to create a solution to his own tragedy, but instead must rely on the help of others, humbling him as he learns of the existence of magics and the multiverse when arriving at Kathmandu upon his first encounter with The Ancient One, a celtic eternal lord of magic played admirably by Tilda Swinton in a highly contentious role previously made as a racial stereotype.

Based on a true story, Netflix's new film Come Sunday follows renowned pastor Carlton Pearson, played by Chiwetel Ejiofor, who questions the existence of hell, choosing not to believe in a God that would punish billions of people to eternal damnation.

The entire nature of the piece invites a meditation on the eternal and what lies beyond this plane of existence.

That is, they score higher on questions like, «It is important for me to write, create, or build something that will exist after my death;» insecure people do not show this tendency.6 In the fictional wizarding world, immortality is a bit more literal (ghosts and living portraits of the deceased), whereas in our world, we leave inanimate remnants behind (like diaries or photographs) to symbolize an eternal existence.