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JAINISM AND CHRISTIANITY
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1. Immortality of the Soul. a. “Neither can they die anymore.” Luke, XX, 36.
b. “The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death......" 1. Cor., XV. 26.
2. Soul not a part of another being e.g., a God.
a. "But it is not as a portion of God that the spirit is in each of us........." P. 273.
b. “But God has no natural relation to us.......... neither on the supposition of His having made us of nothing, nor on that of having formed us from matter: neither portions of himself nor ......... his children. (Clement Vol. 2) A. N. Lib. Vol. XII. P. 45.
3. Nature of Knowledge and its extent. Q. “Ye are the light of the world." Matt. V, 14.
b. "In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge," -- Ephesians iii. 4.
C. "......... For its (the Souls') knowledge of these things does not come to it from without but it rather sets out these things, as it were, with the adornment of its own thoughts."Gregory Thaumaturgus. A. N. Lib. Vol. XX. p. 117.
4. The Soul is blissful by nature.
a. “But the fruit of spirit is.........joy. peace"--Gal., V. 22.
b. “And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads; they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away." — Isaiah, XXV, 10.
5. The Divinity of the Soul.
a." And know ye not that ye are the temple of God and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you." — 1 Cor. III, 16.
b. " I said, ye are gods." - John X. 34.
c. “Behold, the Kingdom of God is within you."_Luke, XVII. 21.
6. All souls of like nature.
a. "Ye are the sons of the living God."-Hosea. 1. 10. Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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