Most of us, I'd wager, don't spend a lot of time
thinking about immortality or the distant future.
Not exact matches
«if I disbelieve
immortality I must not
think about it.»
The influence of Greek
thinking about the inherent
immortality of the soul and the acceptance of Jesus» resurrection as a pledge of personal
immortality have combined to make a convincing argument for Christian believers.
The scientific vision of
immortality is a comparatively new entrant in
thinking about the future of our lives.
People who believe in
immortality may
think about God's judgment when any death occurs, it's part of the unknown dimension of death that makes us suspenseful, nervous, anxious, fearful.
Angels are not sent out by God except when there is a real problem to be addressed and fixed; the very least the Unification Church could have done when I told them
about this visitor (who is still with me by the way) was to send someone out to talk to me to see exactly what it was that I may have really known
about the Providence concerning Rev. Moon reaching
immortality in the flesh: but I suppose they all
thought they knew more than my servant John; who happens to be» the greatest in the kingdom of heaven».
Even Saul of Tarsus
thought only the saved were granted
immortality... nothing
about «going to hell» for anyone.
Along with this, the philosophical notions
about soul,
about immortality,
about a realm above and beyond the hurly - burly of this world, present in the tradition of Greek philosophy and variations on that philosophy in the early Christian era, had become so much part of the atmosphere of
thought that inevitably these two affected Christian thinkers.
If I were to make those critical comments, I should be obliged to say something at this point
about the way in which this notion of the soul's
immortality is very doubtfully found in the Scriptures and how it is an importation into Christian
thinking from elsewhere.
I am inclined to
think it possible he could have accepted the objective
immortality of the past if he had read
about it.
Both promises of
immortality (life after death or elongated life on earth) preserved hope for people with low self - esteem when they had just
thought about their own death.
In two studies, the team tested to see if «
immortality» would help people with low self - esteem remain hopeful when
thinking about death.
The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer Holm August 2014 Random House Middle grade Holm, author of three Newbery Honor Books, asks questions
about the bounds of science and
immortality in will surely be a
thought - provoking read.