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Fr John Behr on Origen and Apocalypse

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Is God a Consuming Fire?

origin notes that throughout scripture, when god is spoken of, it's always in fiery terms. He then etymologizes soul with sicoo to grow cold. So basically, weare on a sliding scale. The closer we get to god, the more enkindled we become,. the hotter we become. Am and then we manifest our existence as intellects. Falling away, we become cold, we become hardened, we become whatever else. Ye o. It's not souls falling into bodies with psychosematic unity. No, qit no quite nono, sad, reat him a so it's all in the classification of rational beingsad. O, i see

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