As soon as one thinks of the soul as existing or continuing to live in an incorporeal state, one is involuntarily led toward the belief in the soul's preexistence or even in the possibility of metempsychosis.
In Hellenistic Judaism especially the doctrine seems to have been general of the preexistence of the soul, or of the creation of all human souls simultaneously with the creation of the world.
The belief in thepreexistence of the soul was shared by the rabbis with the apocryphal authors and Philo.
The eternal existence of a living personal God; and the preexistence and eternal duration of mankind as His literal offspring.
No one who accepts the Holy Bible as the word of God can consistently deny the preexistence of the Lord Jesus Christ.
Again he had to answer many questions in regard to his preexistence and it appeared that in that preexistence many of the things that came onto the table were unknown.
In any case, beyond certain limits, the preexistence of causes seems no clearer than that of effects.
Now, once this representation preexists, as we are obliged to admit in the case of certain number of premonitions, the riddle remains the same whether the preexistence be one of a few hours, a few years or several centuries.
Here is another which evidently belongs to the same class, though at first sight it seems to postulate the preexistence of a fatal event and a vision of the future corresponding exactly with a vision of the past.
To catch a glimpse of this strange problem of the preexistence of the future, as it shows itself to each of us, let us essay more humbly to translate it into tangible images, to place it as it were upon the stage.
It is true--to do complete justice to neospiritualism--that its position offers certain advantages from the point of view of the almost inconceivable problem of the preexistence of the future.
If this were so, the case which would be one of latent illness or even of self-suggestion; and the preexistence of the future, without being entirely disproved, would be less clearly established.
But the interval between the moment when the peril is signalled and that at which it is consummated is too short for those questions which relate to a knowledge or a preexistence of the future to arise in this instance.
Indeed," he says, "the almost instant conversion of the whole of Armenia at the beginning of the fourth century, can not be explained but by the preexistence of a Christian element which had taken root in the country.
They disagreed on infant baptism, the preexistence and adoration of Christ, etc.
I am trying now to get a Buddhist commentary for them--mostly to be composed of texts dealing with preexistence and memory of former lives.
As he has studied philosophy, however, I don't know what he will think of the chapters on the Idea of Preexistence and the Worship of Ancestors.
Book of Mormon scriptures are likewise explicit in proof of the preexistence of the Christ and of His foreappointed mission.
For a further treatment of the preexistence of spirits see the author's "Articles of Faith" x:21-30.
John the apostle repeatedly affirms the preexistence of the Christ and the fact of His authority and power in the antemortal state.
While certain forms of the preexistence theory are exposed to the last objection indicated in the text, Julius Mueller claims that his own view escapes it; see Doctrine of Sin, 2:393.
The theory of preexistence would still leave it doubtful whether all men are sinners, or whether God assembles only sinners upon the earth.
Shall we count George Macdonald as a believer in Preexistence or in Creatianism, when he writes in his Baby's Catechism: "Where did you come from, baby dear?
The idea of preexistence has appeared to a notable extent in modern poetry.
As the preexistence of Christ was no part of Christianity when Peter wrote, which was, according to Lardner and others, in A.
The preexistence of Christ, and his rank as God, is now openly avowed.
Essential preexistenceis an existence which is not preceded by a cause, but essential phenomena are preceded by causes.
Some sages and philosophers believe that there are two kinds of preexistence: essentialpreexistence and preexistence of time.
The preexistence of God is the preexistence of essence, and also preexistence of time, and the phenomenality of contingency is essential and not temporal, as we have already explained one day at table.
The second sort of preexistence is the preexistence of time, and that has no beginning.
Preexistence of time is without beginning, but the phenomena of time have beginnings and endings; for the existence of everything depends upon four causes—the efficient cause, the matter, the form and the final cause.
It is not a question of representing the movements themselves in space, but solely of representing to oneself the muscular sensations which accompany these movements and which do not presuppose the preexistence of the notion of space.
The Spirit is the divine principle incarnate in Jesus and explaining hispreexistence (2 Cor.
As creation presupposes a Creator, the preexistence of the personal Word is assigned as the explanation of the being of the universe.
The consciousness of preexistence is the indispensable precondition of the total demand which he makes in the Synoptics.
The preexistence and atonement of Christ cannot be regarded as accretions upon the original gospel, since these find expression in Paul who wrote before any of our evangelists, and in his epistles anticipated the Logos-doctrine of John.
While Ward is a Platonist alike in his belief in immortality and in connecting that belief with the doctrines of the preexistence and transmigration of souls, his general argument for a future life follows the more usual lines.
The Son of Man came' implies the preexistence of the Son; it is not merely a synonym for being born.
The assertions by which the claim to a preexistenceis recognized, may be found in the well known words in the beginning of John, also in the 10th verse--"The world was made by him.
Our chief business, however, is not with this point, but with the preexistence of Jesus.
Idea of preexistence in Jesus and Sakya adopted by their followers.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "preexistence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: anticipation; earliness; precedence
