Heaven

bible says in Ecclesiastes 12:7, NIV (as quoted by Bibleinfo.com). Many believe that when a person dies, they will go directly to Heaven, or to Hell, but some arguments state the Bible says that you will not go to Heaven or to Hell until Judgement Day. On Judgement Day God will come down to collect his creations and judge them, telling them where to go; either to Heaven or to Hell. This judgement also occurs in Egyptian Mythology but in a dissimilar…

painting is based on the poem Dante's Divine Comedy. In the poem Dante's Divine Comedy, Dante travels through all three planes of the afterlife. He goes to hell, heaven and purgatory. This fresco illustrates the story behind the poem. This canvas is divided into thirds. Each third allows us to see the artists interpretation of heaven, hell, and purgatory. This represents the three categories of cantos. In the middle of all of these places stands Dante himself. Dante is wearing a faded red robe…

life, they are deserving of this treatment since they never stood up for what is right. I feel that their decision to choose a side was a choice and was punished in the afterlife. The uncommitted is a group of people that would not be allowed into Heaven but are not punished in Hell. One group of the uncommitted are the people who didn’t pick a side between good and evil during their life on Earth. The other group that is punished in this manner…

speaker. The “Heavens” call out like a “Bell” and the speaker is the only one to hear it. The speaker is “but an Ear”, establishing a tone of incompleteness. Taken literally, the speaker is no longer complete and can do nothing but listen to the Heavens. The speaker then presents themselves as “some strange Race”. This in addition to “Silence” captures the isolation after death. If the “Heavens were a Bell” yet the speaker hears “Silence”, this implies that the speaker does not have a Heaven…

Chapter Three In chapter three of, After you Believe, N.T Wrights explains the human calling to reign over creation and ultimately achieve God’s vocation and intended image for humankind. In the creation account found in Genesis, humans are given reign and dominion over creation. What does the word ‘reign’ imply in this context. It is unlikely that God gave us ‘reign’ to destroy his beautiful world. Nature is a project that humans should protect and maintain. As humans, we need to enable…

story that can be related to “The Resurrection of Jesus Christ”. The Resurrection of Jesus is Christian belief that after he died he rose again from the dead to wash our sins away. Most of the time, we question ourselves, If I die today, will I got to Heaven or Hell? That answer remains unknown because we do not necessarily know. People does not understand that we are on this earth for a main reason. That reason is to live up to God Ten Commandments. In the bible, it was mentioned in Romans…

There are countless things we can learn from the Bible. Some of these can be placed in the same category or they have the same theme they are trying to get across. A very important message we see repeatedly throughout the bible is that we were saved by Jesus Christ and his sacrificial death is the reason we have a chance at salvation today. Another theme that is often mentioned in the bible is that the Kingdom of God is near. This means we need to repent for our sins and we need to prepare…

Dante Alighieri was a Late Middle Ages author who wrote The Inferno where he critiques the life of sinners and analyzes their punishments as they rot in hell. Whether it be the time of Jesus Christ, or the modern era, people have committed sins ranging from lust to betrayal of God, family, and others. Furthermore, the novel greatly criticizes those who do not follow Jesus Christ. It seems to be a common theme of being raised a Christian and somehow, about halfway through our lives, we find we…

back and forth between what existed before this creation. The very first verse states “God created the heavens and the earth” then the story moves to state “Let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness”. This was an interesting comparison because it seems God has created the heavens and earth, but then creates mankind in “our” image. Who existed with God before the earth was created. Was heaven created, and then earth created in the image of God and the angels? These two verses encourage…

In “A Finger, Two Dots, Then Me”, Derrick Brown takes the position of a weak man who is elderly and is going to face death. He speaks the thoughts aloud of the old man by demonstrating his memorable times, his freedom in his afterlife, and the positivity towards death. Throughout this poem he is speaking to the person who he promised to love for eternity. He says he will love her until he is extremely old, when she needs to feed and bathe him “when it is rather necessary”. He reveals that when…