Just Like Heaven

I’ve always found it easier to watch a thriller than reading one. Maybe I should start reading? Reading a horrific tale is more personal than watching the movie, or so they say… Raven’s peak is a fast paced thriller by Lincoln Cole. It is book 1 in the World on Fire series. Join Abigail in her quest as a demon-hunter within the order of the Council of Chaldea. Her faith and determination will be tested in this sordid tale of redemption, revenge and the supernatural. The tale begins with Arthur…

stories, like Dante’s Inferno and Milton’s Paradise Lost. Satan brings evil, temptation, and leads humanity to not believe in God. Dante's Inferno and Milton's Paradise Lost are two books which he described Satan and hell in there own fairly different and similar ways. Dante’s Inferno levels of hell is separated into nine levels which are spheres, and in each level is a different punishment which progress to get worse and worse the farther you go down. He portrays Satan as being dumb, like…

Hooper felt going through a dark time. HIs style to his text made the reader come to a realization that they should not judge a person on appearance or wait till the last moment. His texts had strong meaning behind them, just like the veil had a powerful meaning to Mr. Hooper and played a toll on his peers. Edwards style was more effective because he used a very harsh dialect and made it clear he was talking to the reader and had this imagery that something awful would happen…

Christian eschatology deals mainly with the end of peoples’ lives, the end of the world, and the kingdom of God. The bible in many places spoke about death and afterlife, heaven and hell, the second coming of Jesus, the resurrection, the rapture, tribulation, millennialism, the end of the world, the last judgment, the new heaven and new earth of the world to come. Afterlife: some denominations believe that after death, the soul goes and sleeps and doesn’t wake up until the resurrection. Others…

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…

Importance of Invictus William Ernest Henley is an author, poet, editor, and critic. One of his poems, Invictus, is a very detailed poem. At the age of twelve, Henley had been diagnosed with tuberculosis of the leg. It was then amputated, but later on it had spread to his other leg but he wouldn’t let the doctors take his other leg. Because of this decision he had to stay in the hospital for almost two years. During his traumatic stay, he began to write poetry. This is when he had written…

character enters hell it is not warm and just a short trip. Instead Dante is shown all the different levels that hell is made of by his tour guide. With this painting from Date's Inferno the reader can see the environment that is in hell and all those who it effects. In this painting the artist uses the mountains in the distance to show how hell is painful and deep and that there is a steep incline in which the river sways. Those mountains show how that hell is not just s flat plain of land,…

They somehow profit from sculptures portraying the virtue which is opposed to the vice which brought them here. These portrayals of humility are contrasted with examples of the vice the souls are being purged from. They are so life-like that Dante thinks he might actually be able to hear the sounds and smell the smells portrayed by them. There is Mary, humbly accepting the angel’s announcement that she will be used of God to bring the messiah to the world. Another is David dancing…

In The Great Divorce, Lewis depicts a man’s encounter of Heaven and Hell, where he interacts with and witnesses many different beings and opinions. In the beginning of the novel, the narrator is wandering around aimlessly through a miserable and dismal town. As he walks, he sees a bus stop and proceeds to get in line, not knowing where the bus would take him. The narrator quickly notices the hostility of the others in the line and observes the strife between the passengers as they struggle to…

Spirit prison denies the soul rest. Those in paradise must wait until the times of Christ’s second coming to earth to move to the next phase. In the next phase of judgment, the deceased will be sent to one of the three heavens or degrees of glory described by Joseph Smith. The highest heaven is the Celestial Kingdom; this is where those who have…