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For nothing stands alone, either in ourselves or in things; and if our soul did but once vibrate and resound with a chord of happiness, then all of eternity was necessary to bring forth this one occurrence—and in this single moment when we said yes, all of eternity was embraced, redeemed, justified and affirmed.
The main debate over the interpretation of this verse is just how absolute it is. Schweizer feels that "until heaven and earth pass away" means that the Mosaic Law will only last until the end times, and will be superseded in the messianic age. He argues that the opening "for truly I say to you" is "typical of statements concerning the eschaton".
Existential nihilism is the philosophical theory that life has no objective meaning or purpose. [1] The inherent meaninglessness of life is largely explored in the philosophical school of existentialism, where one can potentially create their own subjective "meaning" or "purpose".
One of the earliest statements articulating the concept of creatio ex nihilo comes from a ~ 100 B.C. Jewish text, 2 Maccabees 7:28: [21] [22] "I implore you, my child, observe heaven and earth, consider all that is in them, and acknowledge that God made them out of what did not exist, and that mankind comes into being the same way". [23]
This is a necessary result of the sympathy and tension which binds together things in heaven and earth." [ This quote needs a citation ] Chrysippus discusses the Void in his work On Void and in the first book of his Physical Sciences ; so too Apollophanes in his Physics , Apollodorus , [ 5 ] and Posidonius in his Physical Discourse , book ii."
“Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, a dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.” — Robert Montgomery, American actor “I long, as does every human being, to be at home wherever I find ...
Faith in the Earth" is a concept referred to in the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche's mytho-poetic formulation of divinity, Thus Spoke Zarathustra. [1]
“I was born an American; I will live an American; I shall die an American!” — Daniel Webster “No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his body, to risk his well ...