Book Title: Jainism Christianity and Science Author(s): Champat Rai Jain Publisher: The Indian Press AllahabadPage 71
________________ CHAPTER 9 WRETCHED STATE OF THE EMBODIED SOUL The Jaina view is that under the influence of matter the pure attributes of the Spirit or soul-substance are unfunctioning. The embodied soul is mortal, ignorant and unhappy. The perfect soul is immortal, omniscient and blissful. Hence, the inferiority of the embodied soul. The Christian view is given below: “For there is no man that sinneth not."-1 Kings viü. 46. “For all have sinned and come short of the glory of God." Romans iii. 23. “For there is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and ginneth not."-Ecclesiastes vii. 20. "No one is clean from filthiness, not even if his life lasted but • a single day."-(Origen) A.N.C.L. vol. x. p. 347. "... His first advent in the flesh, which took place without honour by reason of His being set at naught, as Isaiah spake of Him aforetime saying, 'We saw Him, and He had no form nor comeliness, but His form was despised, and rejected (lit. deficient) above all men; a man smitten and familiar with bearing infirmity (for his face was turned away); He was despised and esteemed not. But His second advent is announced as glorious, when He shall come from Heaven with the host of angels ... as the prophet saith, 'Ye shall see the King in glory' and 'I saw one like the son of Man coming with the clouds of heaven.' "-A.N.C.L. vol. ix. pt. ii. p. 25. "For two comings of Christ having been revealed to as : a first, which has been fulfilled in the lowliness of a human lot; & second, which impends over the world, now near its close, in all the majesty of Deity unveiled; ..."-(Tertullian) A.N.C.L. vol. xi. p. 93. 59Page Navigation
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