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- noun The condition of
existing prior to the current time - noun The
existence of asoul in a previousembodiment
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Examples
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Your link indicates that physical phenomenon can be cited to support the position that preexistence is a rational rather than a whimsical argument.
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It is the place in which we come closest, in the Pauline corpus, to the idea of preexistence and incarnation.
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It is the place in which we come closest, in the Pauline corpus, to the idea of preexistence and incarnation.
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Hogg and Shelley had been reading Plato and struggling with the idea of preexistence.
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Hogg and Shelley had been reading Plato and struggling with the idea of preexistence.
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Hogg and Shelley had been reading Plato and struggling with the idea of preexistence.
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All concepts of life implied by the idea of preexistence, -- all those beliefs which, however sympathetically studied, must at first have seemed more than strange to you, -- finally lose that curious or fantastic character with which novelty once invested them, and present themselves under a perfectly normal aspect.
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All collaborative models in genetics are based on the preexistence of IP rights: open source uses IP as a platform; licensing clearinghouses; patent pools.
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Can you briefly list a few scholars off the top of your head who question Pauline preexistence?
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They caused a shift in the point of departure of Christological thinking—away from the historical Christ and onto the issue of preexistence.
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