Interesting analogy for body, soul and spirit and how it works
2007年5月14日 · I had a hard time understanding how "body, soul and spirit" thing work, but then I heard this analogy and found it very helpful to me. Body, is our physical body. Soul is the essence of who we are: it's our feelings, acts and memories. Spirit is the lifeforce (aka Spirit of God aka breath of God) that gives life to any human body and sustains it.
Drying of the Euphrates River is a symbolic analogy
2014年3月24日 · It already occurred in history In the year 540 BCE, Cyrus captured Elam and its capital, Susa. Cyrus moved into Babylonia and fought the Battle of Opis in or near the strategic riverside city of Opis on the Tigris, north of Babylon. The Babylonian army was routed, and Cyrus conquered Babylon...
Sin as Privation? - Christian Forums
2020年2月8日 · The view of sin as privation is popular among Christian philosophers, but less so among Christian theologians and exegetes, since the Bible seems to depict sin in positive terms. For example, in Romans 6:17-18 (and many other places) sin is depicted as a power which enslaves or binds people...
Proceed vs. Beget - Christian Forums
2010年5月15日 · But for the Jews and Greeks, it was the perfect analogy. A craftsman makes many things, all of them of different nature than himself -- he crafts them, he is their creator. But he begets a son of the same nature as himself, who works with him as he grows up to help make the creations his father makes.
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2024年9月14日 · Let me also remind you that QFs are just a model born from the observed behavior of the things around us, it may be just as inaccurate as viewing particles as simply little balls of matter flying around in empty space. What you should focus on is how those fields behave... not the analogy that we use to describe them.
Jesus Paid Our Debt? - Christian Forums
2011年3月17日 · The closest analogy I can find is in Matthew 18:23-27 “Therefore, the kingdom of heaven is like a king who wanted to settle accounts with his servants. As he began the settlement, a man who owed him ten thousand bags of gold was brought to him.
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2009年12月22日 · As knee-v said, your post is exactly true. The penal/forensic understanding of Salvation was spoken of not only by Paul, but a number of Saints. But it is only one analogy of a reality that is greater than any analogy we could possibly come up with. •••
‘Monumental’ experiment suggests how life on Earth may have …
2024年3月10日 · I hope the analogy and the point are obvious - an intelligent designer designs the system. Unlike a mere human manager an omnipotent designer would not need to monitor the system and apply corrections, they just hit the "Run" button and everything from snowflakes to black holes to butterflies progressively emerge.
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2009年9月28日 · Actually, to complete the analogy, we're unconscious in the pit, and God shouts down at us to wake up, then we realize we're in a pit and start babbling. God, politely, asks us if we'd like help. We meekly nod. God throws us the rope, we sit there blubbering. God asks if we'd like to grab the rope. We do. He pulls, and we let go and fall back down.
Can I glorify God through writing secular fiction?
2024年5月11日 · I lean more towards Tolkien's style where his work was more symbolic of Christian values rather than Lewis' style which was more overtly analogy i.e. Aslan = Jesus. 2) I feel a lot of doubt and fear over doing this that this is a waste of time.