Just Like Heaven

Why does a person need to be saved? The Bible says that only a few people will end up in Heaven and many will receive a wide road to destruction. Even though Jesus paid for everyone’s sins, each person must come to the realization that they are a sinner and need their savior. They have to get to a point where they trust in Jesus and truly believe that He died on the cross just to save them. Romans 5:6-8 says “ For while we were still helpless, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. For…

It would seem unimaginable that in time God would resurrect all persons who have passed to their original bodily form. That those who were cremated and their ashes spread in the ocean or on earth would be restored by God’s will. Like most people, I’ve experienced loss of a loved one, my mother who was cremated and her ashes spread in Rocky Mountain National Park, her request while living. Linda Badham’s realistic approach of resurrection and the problems associated with life after death…

people, lenders and borrowers. The economy can only function when the people with money can lend to the people without money. Through this process people with money can be good stewards of their money and help those with less afford things they need, like houses. This whole process is built upon stewardship, justice and love and promotes a virtuous community. Without these practices, the economy will fall, as will all of the virtues built upon it. I also find interesting the way he…

This theory would lead to what we like to call brand loyalty. This occurs when customers purchase products only from a certain company that they have had good experiences with in the past and almost refuse to buy products from other companies. PRODUCT SATISFACTION 3 Brand loyalty is what every company should strive to get from one hundred percent of their customers. Having this means that you have sold them on all of your products regardless…

spiritual pilgrimage. Textually, Vonnegut foreshadows the beginning of Billy’s pilgrimage at the start of the epigraph. “The cattle are lowing, the baby awakes. But the little Lord Jesus no crying he makes,” The epigraph suggested that Billy Pilgrim, like that of Christ, is innocent and undeserving of the fate that he is given. Despite being handed this unfortunate destiny, no crying does the baby in the epigraph, which refers to Billy, makes. Throughout the entire novel, Billy cries very little…

“Kingdom of God”, “the day of the LORD”, “the end of the world”, “the last judgment” and “a new heaven and a new earth.” These words are the image of eschatology, and eschatology is an important subject in the Bible. Even Donald K. McKim says that the theme of the Bible is the kingdom of God (McKim, 167). In the Gospel, Jesus taught about the kingdom of God in his whole life and ministry, and the kingdom of God is represented as “already, but not yet” (McKim, 170). John Calvin, a 16th century…

the most awkward hug in history. I am never going to get to ask him the questions I’ve been wanting to ask since I was old enough to have questions. I am never going to see his face. I am never going to hear the voice that supposedly sounds so much like mine. I am never going to get to ask him for advice. And if I marry a lady and father children one day, they are probably never going to get to meet him too. In fact, I don’t even know if he is still alive. My father abandoned my mother—his wife…

Characters that helped the progress of Rome or Catholicism are looked more favorably upon in the text. Aeneas’s founding of Rome versus Ulysses attack on Troy explain their drastically different fates. Similarly, the Hebrew Biblical figures rising to heaven versus the Greeks and Romans condemned to Limbo further exemplifies this point. The inverse is also true. The three most tortured people in all of hell are Judas, Cassius and Brutus. The first “who has to suffer most” committed the ultimate…

Art requires a skill which includes painting, sculpture, architecture, music and literature. Dante believes that he is an artist because he writes poetry and therefore dedicates the inner edge of the seventh circle to people who have been violent against it. This violence against art is so important to Dante that he places it in the seventh circle of the Inferno out of nine circles. The sinners Dante encounters are guilty of usury and are forced to wear money purses around their necks…

The Inferno, is used as a moral propaedeutic) “Heaven would be wonderful, but it looks even more wonderful when there is also a threat of Hell. People probably believe in Heaven more when they have just been threatened with Hell.” (Heflick). People of the church are often known for their ability to make individuals who do not attend church feel lesser and more sinful than themselves. This seems to be the case because those individuals believe in heaven and hell and by going to church, they…