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The title derives from a passage of the interview in which Heidegger speaks of the impotence of philosophy in the face of the present crisis of civilization: "Only a god can save us. The only possibility available to us is that by thinking and poetizing we prepare a readiness for the appearance of a god, or for the absence of a god in [our ...
Seventh-day Adventists believe that only God has inherent unconditional immortality, all humans can only possess immortality conditionally through faith in Jesus as a gift, unbelievers will eternally perish or cease to exist. This belief is based of biblical texts such as; John 3:16 which states; “For God so loved the world, that he gave his ...
This is like wanting to own something that only god can own, which will inevitably lead to disappointment and sadness. The best way to live is to want what god wants and since whatever god wills happens, whatever happens is good. [2] The only decent reason for sadness is to be sad not to have this ones with god and not being free from material ...
The Orthodox concept of life in heaven is described in one of the prayers for the dead: "…a place of light, a place of green pasture, a place of repose, from whence all sickness, sorrow and sighing are fled away". [10] In the Eastern Orthodox and Oriental Orthodox, only God has the final say on who enters heaven.
Wittgenstein also mentions the will, life after death, and God—arguing that, "When the answer cannot be put into words, neither can the question be put into words". [ 20 ] Wittgenstein's work expresses the omnipotence paradox as a problem in semantics —the study of how we give symbols meaning.
In the Hebrew writings, God is absolutely righteous, and only pure and sinless persons can approach him. [27] Reconciliation is achieved by an act of God, namely by his appointment of the sacrificial system, [i] or, in the prophetic view, "by the future Divine gift of a new covenant to replace the old covenant which sinful Israel has broken."
A version of the Serenity prayer appearing on an Alcoholics Anonymous medallion (date unknown).. The Serenity Prayer is an invocation by the petitioner for wisdom to understand the difference between circumstances ("things") that can and cannot be changed, asking courage to take action in the case of the former, and serenity to accept in the case of the latter.
According to Thomas Aquinas, God can also be defined as the act of all acts, the perfection of all perfections and the perfect Being. [2] This Being is also called being in the strong sense or intensive Being (Esse ut actus, or Actus essendi) to distinguish it from being in the weak sense or common being (esse commune) of all created entities.