Material theories insist that life is structural and organic, controlled by bodily or physical conditions, subject to laws of matter,—sin, sickness, and death. Jesus, that great lexicographer of the "new tongue," gave as his definition, "And this is life eternal, that they might know thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom thou hast sent.
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