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"The notion of the immortality of the soul as an intellectual substance (and that that immortality might even be demonstrated rationally) had not dawned upon the mind of Biblical man. If he hoped at all to escape mortality it was on the basis of personal trust that his Creator might raise him once again from the dust."

Psalm 22, "I was cast upon thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly...
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels."

"The sinfulness that man experiences in the Bible--as in the Psalms or the Book of Job--cannot be confined to a supposed compartment of the individual's being that has to do with his moral acts. This sinfulness pervades the whole being of man: it is indeed man's being, insofar as his feebleness and finiteness as a creature he stands naked in the presence of God."

"Deep within Biblical man lurks a certain uneasiness, which is not found in the conceptions of man given to us by the great Greek philosophers. This uneasiness point toward another, and more central, region of human existence than the contrast between doing and knowing, morality and reason."