Yielding To Christianity

Patricia Hofer

Plotinus and St. Paul on the “soul”

St. Paul: “This is what I’m saying, brothers and sisters: Flesh and blood can’t inherit God’s kingdom. Something that rots can’t inherit something that doesn’t decay” (CEB 1 Cor. 15:50).
Writing in the second century CE, Plotinus was quoting and agreeing with Paul: “The Soul exists in its own right; it neither comes into existence nor perishes. It is itself the principle of life, the ‘one and simple activity in living,’ and as such it…

George MacDonald: “the flood of life” that enlarges consciousness

George MacDonald: “To believe in God our strength in the face of all seeming denial, to believe in him out of the heart of weakness and unbelief, in spite of numbness and weariness and lethargy; to believe in the wide-awake real … If we will but let our God and Father work his will with us, there can be no limit to his enlargement of our existence, to the flood of life with which he… Continue reading

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