Yielding To Christianity

Patricia Hofer

Seeing God “face to face”

Here, O my Lord, I see Thee face to face; Here would I touch and handle things unseen; Here grasp with firmer hand eternal grace, And all my weariness upon Thee lean. (Horatius Bonar, 1855)
Horatius Bonar, an ordained Scottish pastor, wrote hundreds of hymns. It was said that the hymns came to him during walks beside the ocean or along a brook. Or at other times he might be inspired by the rhythmic clatter… Continue reading

Plotinus on Souls and resurrection

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… Continue reading

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