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The hymn is based on the King James Bible's version of Paul's First Epistle to Timothy, Chapter 6, verse 12: "Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses."
1 Timothy 1:16 characterizes Christians by reference to eternal life and calls the followers of Jesus: "an ensample of them that should thereafter believe on him unto eternal life." and 6:12 advises them to "fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal". [4]
1923: George Edwin Horr — The Christian Faith and Eternal Life; 1924: Philip Cabot — The Sense of Immortality; 1925: Edgar S. Brightman — Immortality in Post-Kantian Idealism; 1926: Gustav Kruger — The Immortality of Man According to the Views of the Men of the Enlightenment; 1927: Harry Emerson Fosdick — Spiritual Values and Eternal Life
Today, we enjoy a life span that’s double that of our great-grandparents, thanks to our better understanding of how nutrition, exercise, medicine, and hygiene affect the body and mind.
Jesus and the rich young man (also called Jesus and the rich ruler) is an episode in the life of Jesus recounted in the Gospel of Matthew 19:16–30, the Gospel of Mark 10:17–31 and the Gospel of Luke 18:18–30 in the New Testament. It deals with eternal life [1] [2] and the world to come. [3]
Additional spurs at the base hold those for whom beginning the ascent is delayed because in life they were excommunicates indolent or late repenters. At the summit is the Garden of Eden , from where the souls, cleansed of evil tendencies and made perfect, are taken to heaven .
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit ...
The Fountain of Eternal Life in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, is described as symbolizing "Man rising above death, reaching upward to God and toward Peace." [1] Immortality is the concept of eternal life. [2] Some species possess "biological immortality" due to an apparent lack of the Hayflick limit. [3] [4]