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One group, referenced as "the little flock" of 144,000 people, will receive immortality and go to heaven to rule as Kings and Priests with Christ during the thousand years. As for the rest of humankind, after the final judgment, it is expected that the righteous will receive eternal life and live forever on an Earth turned into a paradise.
He is regarded to be a chiranjivi, an immortal being, who still roams the world with foul-smelling fluids oozing from his form. [4] Hanuman, a vanara figure from the Ramayana and a companion of Rama, is described to be immortal in Hindu epics. He is believed to live in the Himalayas. [5] The Wandering Jew (b. 1st century BC), a Jewish shoemaker.
In some Muslim Sufi mystics, Khidr is given a long life but not immortality or there is more than a little argument stated about the demise of khidr; however, it is the matter of debate, [64] [65] and there is a fabrication point that goes around the Khidr drank from the fountain of Life, which is thoroughly invalid.
Second, if the world changed from a state of rest to a state of motion, the cause of that change to motion would itself have been a motion. He concludes that motion is necessarily eternal. Aristotle argued that a "vacuum" (that is, a place where there is no matter) is impossible. Material objects can come into existence only in place, that is ...
In the Eastern Orthodox Church, heaven is the parcel of deification , meaning to acquire the divine nature by grace and complete one's hypostasis via Christlike behavior, due to Jesus having made human entry into heaven possible by his incarnation, hence evidence of one's deification is usually miracles akin to those of Christ. [11] [12]
The kingdom of God in heaven is, well, a kingdom. In other words, theologically—at least in the Abrahamic tradition—the best form of government is a kind of despotism. Oh, it’s the best sort ...
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Another argument Lafleur uses is that if God is all knowing, praying and worship is pointless because God already knows because he has conceived the whole world and all of us. According to Lafleur, when we say eternal, what we really mean is everlasting. Only in this way could God be everything we think of him as, both everlasting and all knowing.