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14701 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 579.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… that argument was final.25) Ibid., p. 26. 26) Ibid., p. 27.
14702 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 579.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
The argument is next presented that “after a man is dead, the visible part of him”—the “body,” or “corpse”—is subject, in due time, to “dissolution and decomposition …
14703 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 581 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
15. SOUL AS INSTRUMENTAL “HARMONY” ARGUMENT DISMISSED
14704 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 581.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… ’ summarizing argument:43) Ibid., pp. 36, 37. 44) Ibid., p. 43.
14705 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 582.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
This argument quashed the harmony contention with Socrates’ companions. The harmony obviously could not exist before the instrument (92). 46) Ibid., pp. 43, 44.
14706 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 582.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… ) closing argument is this: Since “the soul is immortal” (106), it is therefore “imperishable.” This brought the candid admission from Cebes: “Beyond all question …
14707 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 585.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the argument appearing in Lazes 893-896. But in Phaedrus the soul is set forth as a mystical composite, having higher and lower elements, whereas in the Phaedo …
14708 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 586.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Such is the fantastic tale, with its poetic imagery, invoked to enforce Plato’s argument.
14709 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 587.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… its argument as to immortality.11) Ibid., p. 27. Note 9 gives alternate reading, “What is ever in motion is immortal.”
14710 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 588.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Reverting to the soul’s form, “expressed more briefly and in human language,” Plato develops the famous winged-horses and charioteer-figure argument, with its poetic drapery—the group having grown into one:
14711 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 590.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
And souls are born over and over. That principle is involved in the argument of the Phaedrus.
14712 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 592.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… his arguments, and thus to determine the soundness and validity of his conclusions as later accepted by Philo, Origen, and others—even to this day. Let us therefore …
14713 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 614.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… and arguments of the skeptical Sophists, so now the post-Platonic developments climax with the Pyrrhonian Skeptics, who doubted everything. So a distrust …
14714 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 620.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… his arguments were only a “probability.” And while he accepted much of Plato’s doctrine, and reproduced not a little of his reasoning, Cicero nevertheless …
14715 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 628.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… and argument in its advocacy. As already seen, their views are ably defended by Lucretius in his The Nature of the Universe. And Horace, Juvenal, and Persius …
14716 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 708.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… crowning argument of Greek philosophy as a “philosophical religion,” as it entered into mortal conflict with the rising power of Christianity.
14717 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 716.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the arguments that removed the irreconcilable disagreements between Scripture and pagan philosophy—by the simple device of allegorizing away the intent …
14718 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 804.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… , the arguments of philosophy were first brought forward ostensibly that men might not be blinded by the sudden light of Scripture. Various writers began …
14719 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 827.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… . His arguments are the more remarkable because he had once been an ardent Platonist.
14720 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 854.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… their arguments, the logic of their reasonings, and the expressions sometimes employed. This alone explains why they wrote so much on the origin, nature, and …