Jainism Christianity and Science

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

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bave learnt long ago from this teacher."-(Arnobius) A.N.C.L. vol. xix. p. 132.
"On this wise, it is possible for the Gnostic already to have become God. I said, Ye are Gods, and Sons of the Highest!"(Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. xii. p. 209.
"Oh the blessedness of the soul that is redeemed by the word! Oh [the blessedness of] the trumpet of peace without war! Oh [the blessedness of] the teaching which quenches the fire of appetite! which, [though it] makes not poets, nor fits [men] to be philosophers, nor has [among its votaries] the orators of the crowd; yet instructs [men], and makes the dead not to die, and lifts men from the earth [as gods] up to the region which is above the firmament. Come, be instructed, and be like me: for I too was [oncel] as ye are."(Ambrose) A.N.C.L. vol. xxiv. p. 104.
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FOUR AND TWENTY ELDERS
No further authority is needed for a Christian reader for the proposition that the form of God is that of man, than that in Phil. ii. 6:
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'Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God."
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As regards the Place of the Perfect Ones, the Jaina description of it is supported by the following Christian authorities:
... there are two heavens, one of which is that visible firmament which shall pass away, but the other is eternal and invisible."— (Recognitions of Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. ii. p. 281.
The two heavens referred to mean the heaven as such which is occupied by mortal, though superior kind of beings (termed devas in Jainism), and the other, the place of the abode of the Perfected Souls which is eternal.
"Luminous already, and like the sun shining in the exercise of beneficence, he speeds by righteous knowledge through the love of God to the sacred abode."-(Clement) A.N.C.L. vol. xii. pp. 865-366. "Accordingly after the highest excellence in flesh, changing always duly to the better, be urges his fight to the ancestral ball,
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