To: kosta50; Alamo-Girl; betty boop
[.. Life. It is a breath from God; it is eternal. We should treate is as sacred. / Our existence is not just a soul; it is bodysoul. That is our created state. We are not angels (spirits). Our "natural" state is animated clay. That's why the saved and condemned get new bodies at the end. That's why souls of the departed are considered in discomfort even if they have been saved. ..]
The breath of god is, of course, a metaphor.. and can easily be a superstitious canard.. No science can currently define "life"..
Who says human are essentially not angels?.. Maybe fallen angels thats seen the error of their ways(following Satan) and wanting a second chance.. as the spirit of a human.. You know, like the metaphor of the prodigal son suggests, seen in another light.. Prompting the book of GENESIS..
14,545 posted on
05/12/2007 12:02:27 PM PDT by
hosepipe
(CAUTION: This propaganda is laced with hyperbole....)
To: hosepipe; Alamo-Girl; betty boop
Who says human are essentially not angels?.. Maybe fallen angels thats seen the error of their ways(following Satan) and wanting a second chance.. as the spirit of a human.. That sounds gnostic. Seems to be a lot of that (especially lately).
14,549 posted on
05/12/2007 1:29:10 PM PDT by
kosta50
(Eastern Orthodoxy is pure Christianity)
To: hosepipe
I don’t know if you’ve ever read Paradise Lost or not, but it is a magnificent work. The scene where God hurls Lucifer and his band of demons to hell is so masterfully done. And the dialogue between Lucifer and Beelzebub shows the latter sort of arguing with Lucifer’s contention that reigning in hell is better than serving in heaven.
To: hosepipe
Who says human are essentially not angels?. That other authority that you do not recognize, but which declared the Nicene Creed as orthodoxy and condemned as heretical the Platonic errors of Origen: namely, the Magisterium of the Church.
-A8
14,648 posted on
05/16/2007 7:43:13 AM PDT by
adiaireton8
("There is no greater evil one can suffer than to hate reasonable discourse." - Plato, Phaedo 89d)
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