God is dead

death does not nullify God’s justice or abrogate the covenantal relationship from individuals” (ABD 5. 584). In early Judaism God rewarded the faithful and punished the rebels. The concept of resurrection of the body was to “recompense for the lack of divine justice in the world and as a reward for one’s deeds.” (ABD 5. 584) The wicked would remain in the realm of the dead while the righteous would be rewarded with “eternal life” (ABD 5. 584). Paul draws on this concept to explain and to answer…

Throughout literature, sinking cities have become a reoccurring image that have appeared in numerous works. Many authors take advantage of historical cities that have sunken or created new cities of their own to demolish in their works. A large debate is centralized around the setting in Edgar Allan Poe’s “The City in the Sea.” Analysis of the poem has led people to multiple conclusions, most commonly to the city of Babylon. While a great deal of evidence points to the city being based on…

haunt our kids. Adults could be victims. My mom was one of them. I still cannot believe what I saw and experienced until today. She told us that many ghosts chased her on her way back home and got really sick. Later she was possessed by one of her dead aunts who wanted her to become a middleman. After several middlemen were invited to control the situation, she came back to normal. That experience forever scarred her about ghosts. When she put her faith in Jesus Christ, these ghosts still…

Since we were both religious we said our prayers and we thanked God for everything he has given us and asked him especially to take care of our parents and siblings. Ziggy, who was adopted prayed that nothing bad would happen to her “mom” and “ brothers and sisters”. As Ziggy and I woke up early to be at school on time…

ever-so-popular The Walking Dead tv series. But as for some zombie anime, they are portrayed more differently. However I'm going to try to avoid some pretty well-known anime. (Image) Contract: Zombie-Loan follows a high school girl named Michiru Kita with Shinigami eyes, enabling her to see whose life is going to end. She desires a peaceful life, disliking this power until looking at the lifespan of two of her classmates, Chika Akatsuki and Shito Tachibana. They were already dead, but brought…

The core myth of this genre is we all live our lives like zombies, so used to our routine. Shaun of the Dead definitely remythologize the core myth, play with it a whole lot and satisfied every aspect of that point they were trying to make. We are so used to our daily life routines, that a lot of times we don’t noticed or realized what’s going on around us and Shaun of the Dead used the zombies as a metaphor of us. We are like the zombies walking around and going through life and content with…

Traces of the Spirit, by Robin Sylan, New York: New York University Press 2001. 221 pages. Reviewed by Taylor S. Towers. Traces of the Spirit was chosen for review due to how it’s study of religion in modern western cultural music relates to our classes study of other culture’s music and how religion strongly influences them. Throughout the course many of the articles we read discussed how music in other cultures, such as Balinese or African, differs from western music in the fact that in…

hun soul will come back home to take a final look. The living people would prepare a meal and lighting up incense for the hun soul before the hun it came, and then tried to sleep or hide under the quilt to make sure the dead could not see his family members. Otherwise, the dead would worry about living people which impedes his rebirth. When the incense was finished, it represents the po soul is leaving and entering to the “yellow spring”. After that, living…

positivity it spreads around the globe. It’s a way of life, therefore many people can interpret this way of life through their own perspective. Thier own experiences, which if you have faith, you can say that these experiences are brought to us by God. The interesting thing about faith, is that it means something different to every single one of us. It meant something different to Paul, a converted Jewish man that at one time was looking to persecute Jesus and his followers…

the Day of the Dead, is a Mexican celebration where Mexicans celebrate, remember, and prepare special foods in honor of those who have departed into the afterlife. This is not a time for suffering, but a time to honor and remember those who have passed. This holiday is celebrated on November 1, and even though it can be celebrated in many places, it is usually celebrated where it originated from, which is Mexico. Those who celebrate the Day of the Dead were positive that the dead would be…