The Universalist Quarterly and General ReviewA. Tompkins, 1884 - Universalism |
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... perfect phase of being is the outcome of one less perfect . This proceeds on the theory of the Persistence of Force . Evolution is based on this as a principle demonstrated by physics . But evolution does not explain why force should ...
... perfect phase of being is the outcome of one less perfect . This proceeds on the theory of the Persistence of Force . Evolution is based on this as a principle demonstrated by physics . But evolution does not explain why force should ...
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... perfect light of the Divine understanding . If we cannot know all , let us admit the little we can know If we cannot conceive the highest attributes of the Creator , let us admit that somewhere in the unsearchable depths of His being ...
... perfect light of the Divine understanding . If we cannot know all , let us admit the little we can know If we cannot conceive the highest attributes of the Creator , let us admit that somewhere in the unsearchable depths of His being ...
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... perfect form of body and possess the At the age of requisite accomplishments in the Jewish law . six years every child was instructed in the Hebrew Scriptures . When he was ten he was supposed capable of receiving the higher instruction ...
... perfect form of body and possess the At the age of requisite accomplishments in the Jewish law . six years every child was instructed in the Hebrew Scriptures . When he was ten he was supposed capable of receiving the higher instruction ...
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... perfect ignorance of them . St. Peter's language , literally understood , avoids these contradictions and teaches a doctrine in perfect harmony with the Universalist philosophy of the future life , as now held probably by the majority ...
... perfect ignorance of them . St. Peter's language , literally understood , avoids these contradictions and teaches a doctrine in perfect harmony with the Universalist philosophy of the future life , as now held probably by the majority ...
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... perfect truth , fairness , love , — a love to make life an absolute good , dation of difficulties , not a mere preponderance of the balance on the side of well - being . Love only could have been able to create . But they don't seem ...
... perfect truth , fairness , love , — a love to make life an absolute good , dation of difficulties , not a mere preponderance of the balance on the side of well - being . Love only could have been able to create . But they don't seem ...
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Page 117 - For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope. Because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.
Page 31 - He that hath the bride is the bridegroom ; but the friend of the bridegroom, which standeth and heareth him, rejoiceth greatly because of the bridegroom's voice. This my joy therefore is fulfilled. He must increase, but I must decrease.
Page 34 - I looked on my right hand, and beheld, but there was no man that would know me: refuge failed me: no man cared for my soul.
Page 229 - For I determined not to know anything among you, save Jesus Christ and him crucified.
Page 47 - For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit: by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison; which sometime were disobedient, when once the long-suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing; wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.
Page 40 - For I would not, brethren, that ye should be ignorant of this mystery, lest ye should be wise in your own conceits; that blindness in part is happened to Israel, until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in.
Page 234 - O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called ; which some professing have erred concerning the faith.
Page 229 - For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it. For there must be also heresies among you, that they which are approved may be made manifest among you.
Page 260 - ... he doeth according to his will in the army of heaven, and among the inhabitants of the earth; and none can stay his hand, or say unto him,. What doest thou?
Page 88 - Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.