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14701 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 443.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… Augustine’s argument that if we do not make aionios kolasis mean endless punishing, we have no assurance that the aionios zoe that follows means endless …
14702 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 500.3 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the argument of man’s inner aspirations. The fact that the vast majority once believed the world to be flat did not make it so. Universal hunger for Immortality …
14703 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 563 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
5. THREE MAIN ARGUMENTS OF INDEFEASIBLE IMMORTALITY
14704 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 563.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
We may summarize Plato’s three main arguments for the immortality of the soul as the postulates of:
14705 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 569.4 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… his arguments chiefly to justify his beliefs. And there is no avoiding recognition of the fact that he supports his views as concerns the judgment by recourse …
14706 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 571.2 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… cosmological argument based on the belief that all motion requires a “good soul” as its source. The existence of a second maleficent world-soul, identified …
14707 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 573 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: Pagan Philosophy’s Basic Arguments for Immortal-Soulism
14708 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 574.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
… the arguments.
14709 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 577.6 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Cebes points out the logical and inevitable conclusion to this immortality argument in these words:
14710 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 578.1 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
Recollection of former existences is thus an added argument that is used.
14711 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.
14712 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 …
14713 The Conditionalist Faith of Our Fathers, vol. 1, p. 581 (LeRoy Edwin Froom)
15. SOUL AS INSTRUMENTAL “HARMONY” ARGUMENT DISMISSED
14714 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.
14715 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.
14716 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 …
14717 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 …
14718 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.
14719 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.”
14720 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: