Look at this. I have thought to myself that Sarah must have God on her side to have pulled off so many impossible feats. What are the odds that we would have someone named Palin stirring up so much interest at this time of uncertainty?
Palingenesis: from the Concise English Dictionary: “a new birth; reincarnation, a second creation, regeneration, unmodified inheritance of ancestral character, the new formation of a rock by re-fusion.” McCain wrought more than he realised. Look it up. I like the “unmodified inheritance of ancestral character.”
Very interesting! I will look that up! :) Thanks!
Oh, my...I did look it up...brought tears to my eyes. I love God, don’t you?
I looked it up too. That's an awesome find.
So really, why do the heathen rage?
The word “ palingenesis “ or rather “ palingenesia “ may be traced back to the Stoics, who used the term for the continual re-creation of the universe by the Demiurgus (Creator) after its absorption into himself. Similarly Philo speaks of Noah and his sons as leaders of a “ renovation “ or “ re-birth “ of the earth. Josephus uses the term of the national restoration of the Jews, Plutarch of the transmigration of souls, and Cicero of his own return from exile. In the New Testament the properly theological sense of spiritual regeneration is found, though the word itself occurs only twice; and it is used by the church fathers, e.g. for the rite of baptism or for the state of repentance. In modern biology (e.g. Ilaeckel and Fritz Muller) palingenesis “ has been used for the exact reproduction of ancestral features by inheritance, as opposed to “ kenogenesis “ (Gr. icatvos new), in which the inherited characteristics are modified by environment.
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Palingenesis