Book Title: Jainism Christianity and Science
Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: The Indian Press Allahabad

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________________ 62 JAINISM, CHRISTIANITY & SCIENCE put on incorruption, and this mortál shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swalloryed up in victory."-1 Cor. xv. 50—54. "For I know that in me (that is, in my flesb) dwelleth no good tbing ... For the good that I would I do not : but the evil which I would not, that I do ... I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me. For I delight in the law of God after the inward man: but I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from the body of this death?"-Romans vii. 18-24. "I beseech you therefore, bretbren, by the mercies of God, that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable unto God, which is your reasonable service."-Romans xii. 1. “For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of the soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow."-Hebrews iv. 12. St. Paul's idea of the divisions of the constitution of a living being into spirit, soul and body (1 Thessalonians v. 23) can be easily grasped if we liken the living organism to a piece of sponge that is saturated with water. The sponge is, of course, the outer physical body, and the liquid compound of oxygen and hydrogen, the other two, namely, the spirit and soul. The element of pure Spirit in this inner residue of being is the life-giving oxygen, that is existing in the closest chemical union with hydrogen, the symbol of matter. Taken together, they constitute the soul, which is subject to birth and death; separated from the soul, the element of life is pure Spirit, deathless, all-knowing and blissful. Hence, it is said of such purified Spirits ·" neither can They die any more.”—(Luke xx. 36.) "In whom algo ye are circumcised with the circumcision made

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