Eternity

incomprehensibility of God. God is something that can never be fully described by human words, as the subject of God “is impossible to [express], and yet more impossible to conceive,” as no human can see the face of God and lived to tell the tale on this side of eternity. Nazianzus defines God by what God is, but does not try to “comprehend the whole of so great a subject as this,” because it is utterly impossible. Dr. Valeria A. Karras, an assistant professor of Church History at Southern…

the evil that was being done around them. In Canto III of Dante’s Inferno as Dante prepares for his journey to Hell, he sees a sign over the gate that states, “All hope abandon, ye who enters here.”. The souls of the uncommitted are sentenced to eternity in the vestibule of Hell. They did not commit sins that left their…

where religion and the government were contradicting. For in the play the new king Creon declares that one of Antigone’s brothers will be buried, Eteocles, and the other to rot, Polyneices. In Greece if you were not buried you wandered the Earth for eternity. In Antigone by Sophocles, Antigone did the right thing by burying her brother Obviously, she is risking her own neck to do this by breaking the new law she knows very well not to break. However, Antigone will be rewarded by the gods by…

gracefully in her sleep, the carriage could also signify her progressive detachment from her body and can be seen as the journey taken towards a complete state of literal death. The use of the word "Immortality" directly correlates with the concepts of eternity and afterlife. Immortality is defined as eternal life and defies the reality of life on earth. Towards the end of the poem, the author implicitly presents that the narrator is a…

was not until Jesus crucifixion that the eternal bread of life was made (292.) At the end of the poem Taylor says if we eat of heaven white loaf we may live in eternity with God (293.) Taylor is pointing out that God loves us so much that He sent His only son to die for us. That God is willing to forgive past sins in order spend eternity with us in heaven. Taylor portrays God’s role as being loving not condemning, which is the direct opposite of Jonathan Edwards interpretation of God. Then there…

moment arrived Elgrin tied a cloth around Sultan's eyes and began slashing at him but all his attacked bounced off him. Before Elgrin could lift his hand to strike again he was tied to the the freezing stone by ice. Now do you see how powerful the Eternity stones are. Now you shall die again and if Mr.Death lets you out again I will kill you again and until you plead to Mr.Death to not kick you out of his realm. Stultus raised his sword over his head prepared to kill Elgrin. But Oynix had other…

“We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bathhouse, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is” (Dostoevsky 1). When Dostoevsky writes this he is talking about how eternity is something that no one wants to deal with and that…

As the cornerstone of romantic idealism, nature was a “power at the heart of the romanticist's imagination,” epitomised in their art and literature. It had the potential to “render one small and insignificant” yet it could also connect one with eternity, a spiritual concept which corresponds to the notion of eternal life presented in Christianity. This sense of sublimity is what initially drew romanticists to nature, as they revered in the surreality and complexity of their natural environment…

Homer, Plato, and Cicero were three ancient writers. They each had disagreeing ideas about the afterlife. These three explained their ideas of the afterlife through literature. Homer expressed his ideas through The Odyssey. Plato expressed his ideas through Socrates’ Apology. Cicero explained his ideas of the afterlife though “On Friendship.” These ideas are both similar and different. The Odyssey is a narrative written by Homer. In this narrative, Homer references the afterlife and…

I will discuss and compare three authors’ theories of substance, Descartes, Anne Viscountess Conway, and G.W. Leibniz. I will briefly summarize Descartes’ theory of substance. I will outline the two additional theories of substance by Conway and Leibniz. I will discuss how they relate to Descartes theory. I will discuss the interesting difference in the role God plays in the two latter theories as contrasted with Descartes’ theory. I will examine striking similarities and also the differences…