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60701 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 623.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the nature of the spirit. Is it born, or is it implanted in us at birth? Does it perish with us, dissolved by death, or does it visit the murky depths and dreary sloughs …
60702 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 623.5 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the Nature of the Universe, The Penguin Classics, p. 30.
60703 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 623.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… reverse, “nature resolves everything into its component atoms and never reduces anything to nothing” (226) If “throughout this bygone eternity there have …
60704 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 626.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… -that nature herself formed the world out of chaos. And the holy fire, or ether, the power of Heaven, has the heights of Olympus as a dwelling place. Ovid held that …
60705 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 627.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… his Natural History explains the universe pantheistically as a divine being—the sun being the supreme deity in nature and the spirit of the whole. Man is …
60706 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 628.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… his Natural History Pliny plainly affirms that death is an everlasting sleep. And the whole school of Epicureans supported such a position, invoking the …
60707 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 632.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the nature and destiny of man. As previously mentioned, it will not be a pleasant journey for us to take, but it is unavoidable if we are to understand how God’s …
60708 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 638.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the nature of the soul, the state and place of the dead, the nature of the resurrection, future rewards and punishments, and the fate of both the wicked and the …
60709 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 639.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the nature and destiny of man. Some of these writings, it will be found, were in harmony with Old Testament truth; others were sharply at variance therewith …
60710 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 643.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Next note the impact of the captivities of the Jews upon their thinking as regards the nature and destiny of the soul.
60711 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 643.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the nature and destiny of the soul, we first note that prior to the age of the Maccabees (168-63 B.C.) the Jews had no important writings outside the Old Testament …
60712 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 644.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… eternal nature—as a kind of self-existent, eternal deity. These positions were developed by Plato, and repeated by Cicero as derived from Plato—for the philosophical …
60713 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 650.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the nature and destiny of man—or their anthropology.
60714 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 655.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… origin, nature, and destiny of man. This also gives us the time relationship of the development.
60715 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 657.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… origin, nature, and destiny of man. These ranged in time between 200 B.C. and A.D. 100. Some were largely apocalyptic in tone and structure. The first three, and …
60716 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 658.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… origin, nature, and destiny of man are found in the inter-Testament Jewish writings. And some oscillated between these opposing views (cf. Wisdom of Solomon …
60717 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 672.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
As to the nature and destiny of man, Jubilees taught that the “bones” rest while the “spirits” live on independently. So the life of the spirit, separated from the body, is portrayed. Here are the precise words in the Jubilees:
60718 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 705.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… , deifying nature, and Persian Dualism, with its principles of good and evil eternally struggling for mastery, came to the fore. And added to these, Indian mysticism …
60719 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 706.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… origin, nature, and destiny of man and the universe. The assumptions of the older philosophies, including the original Platonism, had resulted in a reaction …
60720 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 707.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… ; 2. Nature of the Soul; 3. Existence of God; 4. Criterion of Truth.” And at the close of his able tracement of its development, as he looked back over the thousand years …