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MONOMANIA AND FANATICAL BIBLE BELIEVERS
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[quote:Anonymous Coward 76107349:MV80MDE4NDU2XzcyNzY4MTc1XzIyNjg1OEMy] [quote:Anonymous Coward 77505643:MV80MDE4NDU2XzcyNzYwNDc2Xzc4MUVFMzdD] [b]Does conscious life continue for a person after the spirit leaves the body?[/b] Ps. 146:4: “His spirit [Hebrew, from ruach] goes out, he goes back to his ground; in that day his thoughts do perish.” (NAB, Ro, Yg, and Dy [145:4] here render ruach as “spirit.” Some translations say “breath.”) (Also Psalm 104:29) [b]What is the origin of Christendom’s belief in an immaterial, immortal soul?[/b] “The Christian concept of a spiritual soul created by God and infused into the body at conception to make man a living whole is the fruit of a long development in Christian philosophy. Only with Origen [died c. 254 C.E.] in the East and St. Augustine [died 430 C.E.] in the West was the soul established as a spiritual substance and a philosophical concept formed of its nature. . . . His [Augustine’s] doctrine . . . owed much (including some shortcomings) to Neoplatonism.”—New Catholic Encyclopedia (1967), Vol. XIII, pp. 452, 454. “[b][color=darkblue][color=indigo]The concept of immortality is a product of Greek thinking, [i][u]whereas the hope of a *resurrection* belongs to Jewish thought.[/u][/i][/color][/color][/b] . . . Following Alexander’s conquests Judaism gradually absorbed Greek concepts.”—Dictionnaire Encyclopédique de la Bible (Valence, France; 1935), edited by Alexandre Westphal, Vol. 2, p. 557. “Immortality of the soul is a Greek notion formed in ancient mystery cults and elaborated by the philosopher Plato.”—Presbyterian Life, May 1, 1970, p. 35. “Do we believe that there is such a thing as death? . . . Is it not the separation of soul and body? And to be dead is the completion of this; when the soul exists in herself, and is released from the body and the body is released from the soul, what is this but death? . . . And does the soul admit of death? No. Then the soul is immortal? Yes.”—Plato’s “Phaedo,” Secs. 64, 105, as published in Great Books of the Western World (1952), edited by R. M. Hutchins, Vol. 7, pp. 223, 245, 246. “The problem of immortality, we have seen, engaged the serious attention of the Babylonian theologians. . . . Neither the people nor the leaders of religious thought ever faced the possibility of the total annihilation of what once was called into existence. Death was a passage to another kind of life.”—The Religion of Babylonia and Assyria (Boston, 1898), M. Jastrow, Jr., p. 556. [/quote] Thank you for posting. :Hf: [/quote]
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They are the most frightened people I have ever observed — Terrified is a better word. I try to help them and one of them callled me SATAN the other day. Neoreactionary deletes always — there.
I say what I mean, mean what I say and don’t say it mean. Sometimes it’s tough love, sometimes it’s soft. But it’s always Love.
Monomania - monomania
n. Pathological obsession with one idea or subject.
n. Intent concentration on or exaggerated enthusiasm for a single subject or idea.
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