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I have posted those paragraphs several times to show you what the "it" is referring to in para. 19. Once again "it" refers to the "fountain" para. 18. Since an inanimate "fountain" is not living it cannot have "aionion life."
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Why would Origen speak of such nonsense as an inanimate fountain leaping "after eternal life" into "the Father who is beyond eternal life"? In context Origen is speaking about "life":
(19) "And after eternal life, perhaps it will also leap into the Father who is beyond eternal life. For Christ is life but he who is greater than Christ is greater than life."
So Origen did not say the fountain was the "fountain of life" and high priestess Ramelli cannot interpret Origen to be sahying "life
Origen is referring to the passage in John 4 about a fountain (i.e. well) of life (v.14). After speaking of "after eternal life" & "beyond eternal life", Origen refers back to the same sentence with those phrases by 2 more references to "life" in section 19. The word "For" indicates he is referring back to what he just spoke about in the first half of section 19:
(19) And after eternal life, perhaps it will also leap into the Father who is beyond eternal life. For Christ is life but he who is greater than Christ is greater than life.
John did not say the fountain leaped anywhere after it leaped into eternal life! Origen did NOT definitively speak of something else leaping anywhere. What does PERHAPS mean
in UR speak?
Irrelevant. If i say "the day after tomorrow perhaps i will go on a cruise ship holiday", is there any doubt that there is a "day after tomorrow" and that "tomorrow" is finite? No. What is in doubt, and the "perhaps" refers to, is what i will do "the day after tomorrow". So Origen spoke, without doubt, that there is in fact an "after eternal life" and "beyond eternal life". There is no "perhaps" about those facts.
And, again, after eternal life is a oxymoron. Unless eternal is finite in duration. Which it is.
More examples re aion/ios (& olam) being finite:
Eternity in the Bible by Gerry Beauchemin – Hope Beyond Hell
12 points re forever and ever being finite:
For the Lord will NOT cast off FOR EVER:
aionios life, 2 UR views, eon/ian ends, millennial eon, 1 Jn.1:2, Chrysoston, Origen, Dan 12 2-3:
how do people who believe in eternal torture in fire
John 3:36, 3:16, 1 Jn.1:2, aionios life:
Augustine's ignorance & error re Matthew 25:46
Rev.14:9-11 & 20:10 & forever & ever a deceptive translation:
If endless conscious torments were true, is God a monster?
Have you been decieved by your Bible translation?
For the Lord will NOT cast off FOR EVER:
Augustine's ignorance & error re Matthew 25:46
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