Living the Immortal Life | Theodore Parker | Unitarian
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 17 November 2015
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Listen to episode 2 of the Inspirational Living Podcast: Living the Immortal Life, edited & adapted from Theodore Parker's Unitarian sermon on immortality.
Transcript Excerpt: It is the belief of many that we shall all live forever. This is not a doctrine of Christianity alone. It belongs to the human race. But how did we come by this belief? Our ancestors did not sit down and think it out; never waited till they could prove it by logic and metaphysics; did not delay their belief till a miraculous revelation came to confirm it. It came to them by intuition; by instinctive belief, the belief which comes unavoidably from our nature. In this same way came the belief in a higher power; the redeeming power of love; and the yearning for justice.
Some faculties of the body act spontaneously at first---so others of the spirit. Immortality is a fact of human nature; it is thus a part of the universe, just as the sun is a fact in the heavens and a part of the universe....
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| 0:51.8 | Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the Sermon on the Immortal Life, |
| 0:57.8 | delivered by Theodore Parker on September 20, 1846. |
| 1:07.6 | It is the belief of many that we shall all live forever. |
| 1:11.6 | This is not a doctrine of Christianity alone. |
| 1:14.6 | It belongs to the human race. |
| 1:17.6 | But how did we come by this belief? |
| 1:20.6 | Our ancestors did not sit down and think it out, |
| 1:23.6 | never waited till they could prove it by logic and metaphysics, did not delay |
| 1:29.8 | their belief till a miraculous revelation came to confirm it. |
| 1:34.8 | It came to them by intuition, by instinctive belief, the belief which comes unavoidably |
| 1:41.4 | from our nature. In this same way came the belief in a higher power, |
| 1:47.8 | the redeeming power of love and the yearning for justice. |
| 1:52.7 | Some faculties of the body act spontaneously at first, |
| 1:57.4 | so others of the spirit. |
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