Afterlife

Leander E. Keck presents how the New Testament portrays death and afterlife. Before discussing the scripture in detail, he clarifies the meaning of each word, such as death, immortality, resurrection, and sheol. He also points out that the distinct difference between the Greek tradition of radical dualism and Christianity mainly comes from the different understanding of the self (85). And, he illuminates the New Testament in light of four perspectives. Firstly, Jesus shows the influence of…

For thousands of years humanity has been puzzled about life after death. The mystery of death and immortality has been fascinating people till this day. But for the ancient Egyptians the afterlife was splendid and beautiful, if not more exquisite and fascinating than life itself, they called it “The Field of Reeds”. The ability to achieve eternal life, in the eyes of the ancient Egyptian was beyond human power. The journey in which a spirit had to endure in order to reach immortality was more…

asking for forgiveness for something so when they die they can go to heaven. Which ties us into our theme in humanities class which is death and dying. I believe that the characters that are depicted believe in an afterlife, and they must pay respect to their Christ before entering the afterlife of heaven in this case. There also appears to be people looking from a distance in the background, these people look like they are scared to approach jesus on the cross, maybe for something they have…

the belief among African individuals founded on the afterlife. Keywords: Afterlife, Customs and Beliefs African Death Rituals As claimed by Harry (1996), despite the fact that death is dreaded aspect,…

Death is something that most of the population is afraid of. Death is just the end of a real lifetime feeling of a lifetime. Some people believe that there is an afterlife. Also, death is caused by illness. Afterall, there are many ways of dying; traumatic deaths, cancer and depression. Traumatic death is just a horrible way of dying. One of them is natural disasters like earthquakes. According to earthquake.usgs.gov an earthquake is when two blocks of the earth suddenly slip past one another…

Dickinson struggled with believing in the existence of Heaven, and wrote many poems on doubt and skepticism of an afterlife. She grew up in a religious bubble where people were constantly telling her how they experienced their faith, and the feelings they had that were associated with things like prayer and death. A good portion of Dickinson’s poetry that talks about Heaven or an afterlife showcases her feelings of indifference and doubt. The Spirit just did not move her so to speak, and…

The poem ‘Because I could not stop for Death’ by Emily Dickinson is an allegory itself. It is a combination of different key devices and features. Emily Dickinson tackles three main themes in the poem where the most predominant theme in the poem is is death. In it the writer is seen to use different stylistic devices e.g. symbolism and personification, so as to bring out the various themes in the sonnet. The three main themes addressed in the poem are Immortality, spirituality and Love.…

Emily’s View of the Soul The afterlife is a mystery to all mankind, and everyone has their own theory as to what surmises after we die. Emily Dickson provides two different theories in her poems “If I Should Die” and “Because I Couldn’t Stop For Death.” In the first, she alludes to the sense that death is the extinction of a soul, but in the latter she sees the soul living on for eternity after the bodies physical death. “If I Should Die” is a poem that eliminates the harshness of death but…

riding with Death and Immortality in the horse-drawn carriage, she “surmise[s]” (1.23) they are heading for perpetuity. The word surmise does not simply mean “guesses” or “wonders,” but rather “suspects”—the woman had a certain amount of doubt in an afterlife, perhaps initially wondering if there even was any at all. Now she knows that there is someplace that exists even after the place she is currently sharing with…

with Romeo had that faith that she would be with him in the afterlife. So this song deals heavily with the thought of an afterlife and the message of this song is that when you die, you’ll be with loved ones again so you should not fear death. The last poem does not glorify death, it has a real outlook on…