Sentences with phrase «sharing in the immortality»

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

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.

They were already like gods, made in His image and likeness, already sharing many of His traits of intellect, free will, creativity, immortality, albeit to a lesser degree.

(Genesis 3:22 - 24) This, in the early Old Testament, Yahweh cherishes immortality as a divine prerogative which he will not share with man.

It is this self motion which grounds for Plato the soul's immortality and hence its share in divinity.

We give up our own immortality sooner than believe that all the hosts of Hottentots and Australians that have been, and shall ever be, should share it with us in secula seculorum.

But he is himself inclined to reject personal immortality on the ground that to wish for it is to indulge in a kind of selfishness which refuses to accept and rejoice in any accomplishment of goodness or truth or beauty unless «I» can have a personal share in its triumph.

The adherents of each were believed to share symbolically in the death and resurrection of the god and thus to obtain immortality.

To be immortal, then, is to be a mortal who has a share in God's immortality (1 Timothy 6:16); conversely, to be estranged from God is death — or «second death,» which is either annihilation or a particularly wretched form of Alpha immortality.

Olshansky, a senior research scientist at the Center on Aging / National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago and lead author of the forthcoming book, The Quest for Immortality: Science at the Frontiers of Aging, shared his views during the American Medical Association's Science Reporters Conference in Atlanta, on October 2, 2000.