What was the council voting against?\u00a0\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Origen was, indeed, a rigid adherent of the Bible, citing Scriptural basis for all statements. To him the Bible was divinely inspired, evidenced both by the fulfilment of prophecy and by the immediate impression which the Scriptures made on those who read them. Since the divine Logos spoke in the Scriptures, they were an organic whole and on every occasion he combatted the Gnostic tenet of the inferiority of the Old Testament.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Origen sought to discover the deeper meaning implied in the Scriptures. One of his chief methods was the translation of proper names, which enabled him to find deep meaning in every event of history; yet at the same time he insisted on an exact grammatical interpretation of the text as the basis of all rendering.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Although a strict adherent of the Church, Origen distinguished sharply between the ideal and the empirical Church, describing “a double church of men and angels.” The ideal Church alone was the Church of Christ, scattered over all the earth; the other provided also a shelter for sinners.<\/em><\/strong> Holding that the Church, as being in possession of the mysteries, affords the only means of salvation<\/em><\/strong>, he was indifferent to her external organization, although he spoke sometimes of the office-bearers as the pillars of the Church, and of their heavy duties and responsibilities.\u00a0 [Wikipedia] emphasis added<\/em><\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 No longer is the empirical Church, if ever it was, the solitary possessor of the mysteries.\u00a0 As a perpetual shelter for sinners, however, this is confirmed.<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “More important to him was the idea borrowed from Plato of the grand division between the great human multitude, capable of sensual vision only, and those who know how to comprehend the hidden meaning of Scripture and the diverse mysteries, church organization being for the former only.”\u00a0 <\/em>[Wikipedia]<\/p>\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It is doubtful whether Origen possessed an obligatory creed; at any rate, such a confession of faith was not like the inspired word of Scripture. Reason, illumined by the divine inner light, remains the true source of knowledge.<\/p>\n REBIRTH<\/strong><\/p>\n Mat <\/strong>11:14<\/strong> \u00a0<\/strong>And if ye will receive it, this is Elias, which was for to come. (When Elias returned as John the Baptist.)<\/p>\n Mat <\/strong>16:14<\/strong> \u00a0<\/strong>And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.<\/p>\n Mat <\/strong>17:11<\/strong> <\/strong>And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things. Mat 17:12 But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Mat 17:13 Son of man suffer of them. Then the disciples understood that he spake unto them of John the Baptist. <\/strong><\/p>\n John <\/strong>8:15<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Ye judge after the flesh; I judge no man. (Why should one man judge another?\u00a0 Every man reaps that which he has sown, if not in the present life, in a future life.)<\/p>\n John <\/strong>8:32<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. (Knowing truth and living by truth shall free one from rebirth on this planet.)<\/p>\n John 9:2\u00a0 <\/strong>And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?<\/p>\n Gal <\/strong>4:19<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>My little children, of whom I travail in birth again until Christ be formed in you,<\/p>\n Gal 6:5\u00a0 <\/strong>For every man shall bear his own burden.<\/p>\n Gal 6:7\u00a0 <\/strong>Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. (The original scripture said “even though the reaping come a thousand years hence.”)<\/p>\n Rev 3:12\u00a0 <\/strong>Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go no more out: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, which is new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God: and I will write upon him my new name.<\/p>\n Rev 20:5 \u00a0<\/strong>But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.<\/p>\n Job 8:6 \u00a0<\/strong>Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.\u00a0 For inquire, I pray thee, of the former age, and prepare thyself to the search of their fathers:\u00a0 For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, because our days upon earth are a shadow.\u00a0<\/p>\n Psa 90:1-15\u00a0 <\/strong>LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations.\u00a0 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.\u00a0<\/p>\n Prov 8:22-31<\/strong> The LORD possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. Mal 4:5 \u00a0<\/strong>Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the LORD: (Rebirth – John the Baptist was Elijah.)<\/p>\n CAUSE AND CONSEQUENCE<\/strong><\/p>\n Mat <\/strong>12:36<\/strong> <\/strong>But I say unto you, That every idle word that men shall speak, they shall give account thereof in the day of judgment.<\/p>\n Mat <\/strong>18:18<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.<\/p>\n Luke <\/strong>6:38<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again.<\/p>\n Rom 2:6\u00a0 <\/strong>Who will render to every man according to his deeds:<\/p>\n 1 Cor 3:8\u00a0 <\/strong>Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.<\/p>\n 2 Cor 5:10\u00a0 <\/strong>For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.<\/p>\n Rev 13:10<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>He that leadeth into captivity shall go into captivity: he that killeth with the sword must be killed with the sword. Here is the patience and the faith of the saints. Rev 22:12\u00a0 And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be.<\/p>\n Gen 9:6\u00a0 <\/strong>Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed: for in the image of God made he man.<\/p>\n Deu 24:16\u00a0 <\/strong>The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers: every man shall be put to death for his own sin.<\/p>\n Job 1:<\/strong>1\u00a0 There was a man in the land of Uz, whose name was Job; and that man was perfect and upright, and one that feared God, and eschewed evil.<\/p>\n Job 4:8\u00a0 <\/strong>Even as I have seen, they that plow iniquity, and sow wickedness, reap the same.<\/p>\n Psa <\/strong>7:15<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>He made a pit, and digged it, and is fallen into the ditch which he made.<\/p>\n Psa <\/strong>7:16<\/strong>\u00a0 His mischief shall return upon his own head, and his violent dealing shall come down upon his own pate.<\/p>\n Psa <\/strong>9:16<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>The LORD is known by the judgment which he executeth: the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion. Selah.<\/p>\n Prov <\/strong>6:27<\/strong>\u00a0 <\/strong>Can a man take fire in his bosom, and his clothes not be burned? 27-28<\/p>\n Prov 24:12<\/strong>\u00a0 If thou sayest, Behold, we knew it not; doth not he that pondereth the heart consider it? and he that keepeth thy soul, doth not he know it? and shall not he render to every man according to his works?<\/p>\n Jer 25:14<\/strong>\u00a0 For many nations and great kings shall serve themselves of them also: and I will recompense them according to their deeds, and according to the works of their own hands. <\/strong><\/p>\n Hosea 8:7\u00a0 <\/strong>For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/astrowin.org\/rffriends\/wpx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Origen31.jpg\" "\\"Origen3\\"")
<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Origen, early Christian scholar and theologian 185-254,\u00a0maintained that souls existed prior to becoming embodied, and only on account of their own negligence did they fall.\u00a0 A repeated theme with Origen\u00a0was his insistence that diversity [individuation] is the by-product of the free will of souls. \u00a0Will, an attribute of God and of man\u2019s divine nature, arises from the impetus to create. However, material creation is lesser than immaterial or spiritual creation, and the heavy material bodies that man assumed after the fall will eventually be cast off. \u00a0Origen still insisted on a bodily resurrection, not that earthly bodies would be precisely reconstituted in the hereafter, but that Paul’s idea of a flourishing spiritual body more appropriately applies to this tenet.<\/p>\n
\nI was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was.\u00a0 When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water.\u00a0 Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth:\u00a0 Jer 1:5\u00a0 <\/strong>Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.<\/p>\n