Understanding Your Immortal Life
Inspirational Living: Life Lessons for Success & Happiness
The Living Hour
4.0 • 805 Ratings
🗓️ 26 October 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Podcast Manuscript: 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.
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| 1:18.6 | Shopify.com slash inspirational. Welcome to the Inspirational Living podcast. Today's podcast has been edited and adapted from the Sermon on the Immortal Life, |
| 1:45.6 | delivered by Theodore Parker on September 20, 1846. |
| 1:58.1 | It is the belief of many that we shall all live forever. |
| 2:01.6 | This is not a doctrine of Christianity alone. |
| 2:05.6 | It belongs to the human race. |
| 2:07.6 | But how did we come by this belief? |
| 2:10.6 | Our ancestors did not sit down and think it out, |
| 2:14.6 | never waited till they could prove it by logic and metaphysics, did |
| 2:19.8 | not delay their belief till a miraculous revelation came to confirm it. |
| 2:25.3 | It came to them by intuition, by instinctive belief, the belief which comes unavoidably from |
| 2:32.2 | our nature. In this same way came the belief in a higher power, |
| 2:38.0 | the redeeming power of love and the yearning for justice. |
| 2:43.0 | Some faculties of the body act spontaneously at first, |
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