Palaeologus emphasises that all mankind has free will and God offers to all a free choice of blessedness.
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For Calvin, believers in the intermediate state enjoyed a blessedness that was incomplete, in anticipation of the resurrection.
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Strings, for example, evoke tears of contrition; harps symbolize heavenly mercy; the flute is associated with blessedness.
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And around this field is a golden ring, symbolizing that such blessedness in Heaven lasts forever and has no end.
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Recent scholarship on the sculpture has queried whether its topic is not the Christian personifications of blessedness but a depiction of a nymph.
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Such blessedness is exquisite, beyond all joy and goods, just as gold is the most valuable, most precious and best metal.
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The causal plane is the world of light and blessedness, the highest of heavenly regions, extolled in the scriptures of all faiths.
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The church website says they " depict the wan-zi, an ancient Chinese symbol of 10, 000 years of eternal blessedness.
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Peter, in blessedness and piety of life did shepherd paternally his flock, suffering himself along with them their proverbial hardships and afflictions.
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That the city comes down from God means that the eternal blessedness is not an achievement of man but a gift of God ".
