Even before the Puritans made their voyage to the “New World” or what we know it as North America, they had to deal with the hardships that are hardly talked about when it comes to the “Puritan Pilgrimage”. As the dictionary of Merriam-Webster states “The Puritans were a group religious members who were apart of a Protestant group, these members follow strict rules and believe that pleasure is wrong” In the early years of 1608, the town of Scrooby which had a group of Puritan separatists, migrated to the Netherlands from England to avoid persecution from the “Millenary Petition” that was made in 1604 by King James the First. After 12 years pass and the year 1620 rolls around the group of Puritan separatists from the town of Scrooby return to England and board the Mayflower hoping to find and pursue a new life in the “New World” while not even knowing what…
Firstly, my spiritual belief is one of the cultural lenses that I believe has majorly affected my view on the dispute of life after death. When I was sixteen years old, I made the biggest and dare I say, the greatest decision in my life, which was: receiving my Lord Jesus Christ. Because of my faith, I believe that once you die, you either go to heaven or you go to hell. Secondly, one of the cultural lenses that I believe has molded the attitude I have towards work ethic is my race.…
Does your school have a Spirit week? At konawaena high this is a one week of school pride and enjoyment in a standard school calendar year. This years Spirit week is composed of pajamas day, retro day, identical twin day, dynamic duo day, and everyone in Green day respectively. moreover it doesn't matter what themes a school chooses for Spirit week it depends on the amount of Spirit that is put into each day. Overall spirit week is chiefly significant due to school pride, higher morale, and social reasons.…
If love is sweeter than heaven, and hotter than hell, then what is there to look forward to after death? The afterlife is believed to be made up of heaven and hell, and Florence Welch isn’t the only one not taking these destinations seriously enough. Society’s picture of heaven and hell is a silly, pale version of what the bible describes.…
Would you ever think someone would name their kid after the phrase priest town? Well I didn’t think so until I found out Preston means priest town. But my parents didn’t even know what the name Preston meant. My mom just liked the name because it sounded good with Lawson and my older sister's name, Madison. My middle name - Ray came from my dad because his middle name is Ray and my papaw on my dad's side was named Ray.…
Richards reports experiments in which he himself administered high doses of LSD to a poverty-stricken research volunteer that saw images of a Hindu God with many spiraling arms during his psychedelic experience. He found out because the young man, who was in his mid-twenties, pointed it out in a magazine he was looking through some time after the experiment at Richards office and it was exactly that, a Hindu rendition of the God Shiva. “Psychedelic research, however, does suggest that there are heaven and hells within each of us, often populated with fascinating images or beings found in literature and art of most world religions, as Muslim or Zoroastrian malaikah, as Buddhist celestial beings called devas, and in Judeo-Christian iconography.”…
On the other hand, the invisible church consists of those who have been redeemed and are truly Christians. They are born again, new creatures, and are indwelt by God (John 14:23). They are the ones who have trusted by faith alone in the sacrifice of Christ on the cross and have repented of their sins. They believe in Jesus as God in flesh (John 1:1, 14, Colossians 2:9) who died on the cross and physically rose from the dead as a payment for our sins. These people are the ones who have been justified by faith (Romans 3:28, 5:1).…
The term evangelism has a lot of stigmas attached to it. Some people (some believers (not all)) see it as a great and very necessary thing that we all are called to practice and do everyday. While other people (non-believers and believers alike) view evangelism as street preachers telling passerby that they are heathens and they are going to hell if they don’t get Jesus. When it comes to evangelism, obviously you want to do the first one and not the second. But how do you properly do it?…
The Hell of No Exit Existentialism has always been a new way to view life. To live – to exist – without context, without labels, without definitions given by everyone else is a notion that is relieving for some and distressing for others. Written by Jean-Paul Sartre in 1944, the French play No Exit, paints a vivid and imaginative picture of an existentialist’s hell. By trapping one’s greatest fears in a room for eternity, Sartre’s intricately woven depiction of modern Hell introduces a new refreshing concept of afterlife as a form of psychological torment, which can in many cases be much worse than physical torture.…
Introduction John Hick, the British Philosopher was born in 1922 in the United Kingdom. Hick is credited as a profound religious epistemologist, philosophical theologian, and religious pluralist (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2015). Hick contributed largely to the world of theology, writing one of his more famous works, Evil and the God of Love, where the chapter Soul-Making Theodicy is included (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2015). The attempt to explain the presence of evil, pain, and suffering has been asked and investigated throughout the centuries by philosophers, theologian, and layman alike.…
Pilgrimage is a religious journey to holy and sacred places for spiritual elevation (Fisher, 2014). A pilgrimage is a place that is selected by a particular religion that is believed to be holy depending upon the teaching of the faith. However, for Hinduism, they take millions of worshippers on a pilgrimage to the Amarnath Cave (Fisher, 2014). The Amarnath Cave is located in the Himalayas of Kashmir, where the Hinduism people have pilgrimage to this holy site for up to three thousand years (Fisher, 2014).…
As the modern age has brought in a wave of secularism, one would expect the draw of sacred spaces to also dwindle. This has not appeared to be the case. Though many times we see a sacred space as being tied exclusively to religion, these are in fact any place that people or society have set aside. The word “sacred” tend to stir up images of centuries-old churches and monuments, but what each person holds as sacred can differ greatly. In modern society many issues have arisen between those who make claim to an area that they considered sacred and those who disagree with this distinction.…
The concept of spiritual formation has been an issue of discussion for centuries. Theologians, clergy, and lay-people have sought to understand the process and procedure of a person being transformed. Although it may be difficult to articulate how an individual undergoes spiritual formation or the disciplines that will lead to spiritual formation, still individuals throughout church history has sought to discover spiritual formation. Albeit, the term spiritual formation is a relatively new term, the concept is as old as the church itself.…
Spirits We all want to know what will happen to us once we die. The questions arise, “Will I come back as another form of life?” Will my sole still linger around those I love? Will I just be a lifeless body in the ground?…
inevitable Lord Krishna as per the wishes of Arjuna became his charioteer and as requested by Duryodhana He gave His entire army to Duryodhana for the battle at Kurukshetra. It is at the battle field at Kurukshetra the great Divine Song namely Bhagavad Geetha emerged from Him. After spending one hundred and twenty years on earth in human form Lord Krishna felt that it was time for him to leave the earth as his mission for which he took birth in this world in human form that is, to destroy the evil forces and bring back righteousness on earth had been fulfilled. After all necessary preparations he went to a forest near Saraswathi River where He took the sacred , went and sat under an Ashwatha tree (the Fig or Banyan or Pipal tree that is considered…