Because according to the teaching of Scripture, death is sleep, a prolonged sleep which will eventually end, and then the bodies of the dead will reawaken as they are reunited
with their immortal souls.
We were not born
with immortal souls.
He made us to delight in the power of sexual love to bring forth new human beings, children of God, created
with immortal souls.
No it's never over because God created man in His image
with an immortal soul.
Man is not a lost atom in a random universe: he is God's creature, whom God chose to endow
with an immortal soul and whom he has always loved.
We deal with cases, forgetting that each case represents a human being
with an immortal soul.»
Not exact matches
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.
Christians believe that a mortal person has an
immortal soul, and that this
immortal soul can be provided
with a resurrected, «sanctified» (which effectively means purified, unblemished, and apparently lacking genitalia) body... the term Eternal Life tends to be used to describe the idea that a «True Believer» in Christ (a term open to many, many interpretations) will have their
immortal soul implanted in that resurrected body and they will get to live for all time
with Christ, apparently singing a lot and doing very little else.
Id add my own: If a god, any god, Christian,,, doesn't matter created the whole works, why is this Power very regional...
with our «
immortal souls» at risk — you would think that this God would have had a better press corp, a better travel agency... to the point that he could have gone gobal from the start.
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.
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.
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).
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.
But he could not tell them why Aquinas thought the
soul is
immortal, as Aquinas undoubtedly did, and his paper ran out
with a discussion of understanding, not the
soul.
Descartes proposes that a human being is two things at the same time: a material and mortal body united
with an immaterial and
immortal soul.
’28 He concluded his book
with the words, «But the sons of Abraham,
with their victorious mother, are gathered together unto the place of their ancestors, having received pure and
immortal souls from God, to whom be glory for ever and ever.
If there is no free will then we can assume there is no
soul because if a persons personality changes
with just a slight tweek in the brain then that would mean their
soul changed too and is not
immortal and in all probability nonexistant.
Thus he maintains that God breathed human
immortal souls into a male and female pair of hominoids, when they had emerged
with a sufficient level of consciousness.
I can totally get «wouldn't it be cool if our sense of consciousness survived our physical deaths and we got to hang out
with the consciousnesses of all the people we loved who died» but the jump from that to «I'm positive we have
immortal souls» seems too much like wishful thinking that's been codified by some form of group consensus.
Conditionalists begin
with the premise that only God is inherently
immortal, despite what Socrates and Plato might have said about
immortal souls.
At that instant of time when I gave all up to him to do
with me as he pleased, and was willing that God should rule over me at his pleasure, redeeming love broke into my
soul with repeated scriptures,
with such power that my whole
soul seemed to be melted down
with love; the burden of guilt and condemnation was gone, darkness was expelled, my heart humbled and filled
with gratitude, and my whole
soul, that was a few minutes ago groaning under mountains of death, and crying to an unknown God for help, was now filled
with immortal love, soaring on the wings of faith, freed from the chains of death and darkness, and crying out, My Lord and my God; thou art my rock and my fortress, my shield and my high tower, my life, my joy, my present and my everlasting portion.
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.
And the Catechism of the Catholic Church affirms clearly: «The Church teaches that every spiritual
soul is created immediately by God - it is not «produced» by the parents - and also that it is
immortal: it does not perish when it separates from the body at death, and it will be reunited
with the body at the final Resurrection.»
It has nothing to do, either,
with the idea that there is some part of our being that is inherently
immortal: some entity that we might call a
soul.
BYZANTIUM sees Gemma Arterton and Saorise Ronan as Eleanor and Clara, a pair of
immortal lost
souls travelling the country
with a bloodthirsty dark secret.
I've been paid
with casseroles, lip gloss, plumbing advice, beer, prayers for my
immortal soul, and promises to mow my yard, but this is the first time I've ever been offered something living.
Then on February 23, John Banville will publish The Infinities (Knopf), billed as a literary gem
with a playful side that finds
immortals vying over the
soul of a dying mathematician.
This is a new monster type equipped
with a power ability to snub any food you offer it... and curse your
immortal soul!
The young djinn bonds her
immortal soul with the prince's, allowing him to recover from certain death (since the game lacks the time - rewinding powers of the Sands of Time series) and later to manifest various powers that will help him to release the lost kingdom from its curse.
Otto Rank (at one time a protege of Freud), broke
with his master and posited that we are, rather, motivated by the undeniable conflict between our sense of ourselves as «
immortal souls,» and our realization that we exist by virtue of our all - too - mortal bodies, that we are desperate to believe that we will, somehow, live beyond our bodies, and that, in order to do so, we pursue «immortality projects,» that we invest in our activities the promise of eternal life.