Jainism Christianity and Science

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: The Indian Press Allahabad

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as it is of being divided in and of itself, inasmuch as it is indissoluble. For if it had been possible to construct it and to destroy it, it would no longer be immortal. Since, however, it is not mortal, it is also incapable of dissolution and division."-(Tertullian) A.N.C.L. vol. xv. p. 438.
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Consequently, as the spirit neither of God nor of the devil is naturally planted with a man's soul at his birth, this soul must evidently exist apart and alone, previous to the accession to it of either spirit: if thus apart and alone, it must also be simple and uncompounded as regards its substance; and therefore it cannot respire from any other cause than from the actual condition of its own substance."-Ibid. p. 435.
And it was distinctly understood that the soul was not a part of any one, e.g., a god, and was not made by any one.
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IMMORTALITY
But it is not as a portion of God that the spirit is in each "-(Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. xii. p. 273.
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 .1 But the mercy of God is rich towards pe who are in no respect related to Him."-(Clement, vol. ii.) A.N.C.L. vol. xii. p. 45.
They were misled by what is said in the Book of Wisdom; 'He pervades and passes to all by reason of his purity'; since they did not understand that this was said of Wisdom, which was the first of the creations of God."-Ibid. p. 274.
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the cause of all error and false opinion is the inability to distinguish in what respects things are common and in what respects they differ. "-(Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. xii. p. 351.
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The Gnostic will avail himself of dialectics, fixing on the distinction of genera into species, and will master the distinction of existences, till he come to what are primary and simple."-Ibid. p. 350. we have in a former passage stated as a preliminary fact, that the mind is nothing else than an apparatus or instrument of the soul, and that the spirit is no other faculty, separate from the soul,
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