Not exact matches
Prometheus» sentence,
so to speak,
is immortal suffering.
That your delusions of grandeur
are just lies, that you aren't
immortal and that there isn't some superbeing who thinks you
are so amazing that he gave you meaning and immortality and special insight?
Typically this process leads to a characterization of God as a
being so advanced, powerful,
immortal, and not subject to the laws of time, matter, and space that his followers can make up any excuse they choose to address questions, since nothing about their god (or gods) can
be subjected to any kind of objective verification or scrutiny, just like everything else in the religion.
The 15th - century Renaissance scientist Pico della Mirandola articulates this view, by putting these words into God's mouth: «We have made thee [«man»] neither a thing celestial nor a thing terrestrial, neither mortal nor
immortal,
so that
being thine owne fashioner and artificer of thyselfe, thou maist make thyselfe after what likeness thou dost most affecte.»
And even
so, since to
be damned
is not to
be annihilated, who shall say what mysterious complement might
be given to the body of Christ by that
immortal loss?
At the end of the day he
is still a billionaire and can go back to his mansion as he chooses, or in Jesus» case
immortal,
so in dying sacrificed nothing.
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.
There
is no causal or logical connection, thanks to degrees of relativity, between
being objectively
immortal and believing or accepting that we
are so.
kermit4jc
So, you
're saying that humans would
be immortal if we had access to the fruit of the Tree of Life that
was also in the Garden?
It
is also timeless — not
so different from the «
immortal longings» evoked by Shakespeare or the anxious concerns John Calvin discerned in his parishioners.
However, sci - fi and fantasy lit
is full of stories about how tragic
being immortal can
be,
so I'd guess that most would opt out of eternity after a few hundred years, or more.
to Earth
so that I / he dies a lousy death
so that the dingbats can feel guilty about it, even though they weren't there and of course there
is nothing scary about death when you
are immortal.
The key problem concerns how God gets to perceive occasions in the first place
so that they can
be taken up as objectively
immortal into his con sequent nature.
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.
... You see, these misguided creatures start with the general conviction that they
are immortal for all time, which explains the contempt of death and voluntary self - devotion which
are so common among them; and then it
was impressed on them by their original lawgiver that they
are all brothers, from the moment that they
are converted, and deny the gods of Greece, and worship the crucified sage, and live after his laws.
So when eternal conscious torment
is the very question at hand, what biblical evidence would you point to as teaching that the resurrected bodies of the lost will likewise
be made
immortal?
He
was so grateful that he could write: «To the King of ages,
immortal, invisible, the only wise God,
be honor and glory for ever and ever.»
Man
was created by God originally to
be immortal in both body and soul, but because of his sin he
was declared mortal.44 It
was necessary for God to decree the dissolution of the body
so that «sin might
be altogether destroyed from the very roots».45 God's plan of the redemption of man involved a complete remodeling,
so that what had
been handed over to death should
be rescued for eternity.
Thus no matter what may happen to the body, man's soul
is immortal and since it
is this which constitutes his distinctive human quality, death
is an important and tragic incident, certainly to those who loved and cared for the one who dies, but it
is not a final incident — there
is more to come,
so to say.
They can't deal with the prospect of not
being here anymore,
so they invented a heaven and a hell and an
immortal god.
From this one use of the word we may infer that Sheol
was an inherited factor in Jesus» thinking, with which he dealt little, if at all,
so that his characteristic and original contribution to
immortal hope
was not phrased in terms of it.
Okay, Jesus died for our sins, but he
was immortal and he knew it,
so he didn't die, he just slept in for three days that
was actually two days.
And, coming
so soon after the completion of the church model, Merrick's death
is complicated by its very aestheticism, its poetry of religion in the achievement of
immortal form: for now he
is «straight.»
Stemming from this belief
are all sorts of other ones, such as the belief in an
immortal soul,
so that when we die we simply continue in another form, and (if we
're lucky) do
so in a glorious place called heaven.
If one recognizes that death and eternal life in the New Testament
are always bound up with the Christ - event, then it becomes clear that for the first Christians the soul
is not intrinsically
immortal, but rather became
so only through the resurrection of Jesus Christ, and through faith in Him.
God:
So, if laws of physics exist, that means I
'm not omnipotent, I
'm not omniscient and I
'm not
immortal.
We
are Hindu
so far as our physical and mental constitution
is concerned, but in regard to our
immortal souls we
are Catholic.
If
so, what
is the difference between it and any other belief in transcendental reality or
immortal life?
God knows all...
so that
's how an
immortal being has a concept of death when they know everything.
So, the question we
are facing
is: If God's consequent nature realizes itself in part out of the prehensions of all worldly actual entities (PR 345), to which new ones, however,
are continually added, how then can the consequent nature of God
be objectively
immortal (PR 32)?
Tocqueville says that religion
is the indispensable American counterculture insofar as it teaches that we have souls and
so high and
immortal personal destinies and relational moral to duties to each of us we share in common.
I always thought my Mother
was immortal so there
was no reason to learn her wonderful baking and cooking skills....
No one designated David Lebovitz (or any other food blogger) as Food Lord, and YOU
are just as empowered as him to make things in your kitchen,
so in the
immortal words of just about every Rob Schneider and Adam Sandler movie: JUST DOOO EEEET!»
We all know Wenger isn't a highlander (
immortal)
so we have to think about a future without him no matter what!
Wenger isn't
immortal so he has to go sooner or later, I agree though that while Silent Stan
is here then I have very little hope we will
be competing with EUs biggest teams.
And Wenger comes out and says «you have to accept that in the premier league sometimes you win, you draw or you lose» — practically saying I
'm immortal here
so whatever the result, accept it.
But the fall - out from all the ale - drinking and incessant traveling in unhygienic (I
'm being very very diplomatic here) buses
was not
so fun, I spent the past few in bed swathed in my quilt looking like a mutated polar bear (leaking snot and other fluids that could
be considered «yucky» in the
immortal words of my sister).
Macgooner56, could have put it better myself, alas there
are still
so many fans out there who still think that AW can do no wrong, the excuse
is be careful for what you wish for if he leaves, Well unless he has leant how to
be immortal he'll have to go some time.
Editor's Note: This post
was originally published April 20, 2008, but its
immortal message continues to ring true today, more
so than ever in this ever - increasing Internet Age.
In the
immortal words of Mona Lott, «It
's being so cheerful as keeps me going».
For many of these peoples, mummification preserved the perceived connection between the physical body and the
immortal soul — just as they needed each other in life,
so too
were soul and body linked in the afterlife.
HeLa cells
are so biologically aberrant in their chromosome makeup that they could never
be used to model
immortal human life, but they nevertheless point the way.
«The beautiful thing,» Lanza says, «
is that if you have an embryonic stem cell line that
is O negative, because it
's immortal you could create an unlimited amount of universal blood that would match virtually everybody,
so you wouldn't have to worry about matching blood types.»
So while the oceans
are not filled with the
immortal jellyfish, she confirmed that they have spread worldwide.
Unlike some other species, the
immortal jellyfish pose little threat to the ecosystem because it
is so small — or to us, because its sting isn't painful.
The machine can copy itself, and
so is effectively
immortal.
I truly realized that I
was not
immortal, and that there
was so much I wanted to do — including write a book!
JG: Yeah,
so they
are pretty much
immortal,
so why not?
The result
is a comedy
so black that it recalls the words of the
immortal Nigel Tufnel: It could
be «none more black.»
His only «superpower»
so far seems to
be asking ppl what their desires
are, showing a demony face and
being immortal.