Jainism Christianity and Science

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

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PHYSICAL BODY THE CAUSE OF TROUBLE
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without hands, in putting off the body of the side of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ."-Col. ii. 11.
" Knowing that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed..."-Romans vi. 6.
"It is a faithful saying: If we be dead with him, we shall also live with him."-2 Tim. i. 11.
"Who (the Saviour] shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby be 18 able even to subdue all things unto himself."-Philippians m, 21.
"... The mental acumen of those who are in the body seems to be blunted by the nature of the corporeal matter. If, however, they are out of the body then they will altogether escape the annoyance arising from a disturbance of that kind ... at last by the gradual disappearance of the material nature, death is puth swallow. ed up and even at the end exterminated, and all its sting completely blunted by the divine grace which the soul has been rendered capable of receiving, and has thus deserved to obtain incorruptibility and immortality . . . It follows that we must believe our condition at some future time to be incorporeal ... and thus it appears that then also the need of bodies will cease ... The whole nature of bodily things will be dissolved into nothing."-(Origen) A.N.C.L. vol. X. pp. 82-83.
"... Now the sacrifice that is acceptable to God is unswerying abstraction from the body and its passions."-(Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. xii. p. 261.
"The Saviour himself enjoins, watch' as much as to say 'Study how to live and endeavour to separate the soul from the body'..." Ibid. p. 284.
"... the more subtle substance, the soul, could never receive any injury from the gross element of matter, its subtle and simple nature rendering it impalpable, called as it is incorporeal. But whatever is gross, made so in consequence of sin, this is cast away along with the carnal spirit which lusts against the soul.'-- A.N.C.L. vol. xil. p. 334.
“The sole key to unlock Paradise is your own life's blood."(Tertullian) A.N.C.L. vol. sv. p. 531.
“The divine apostle writes accordingly respecting us : 'For now