It’s weird you hear all these interpretations of what happens to you when you die. The most common one is you go to heaven or hell. I remember when I had my earthly body doing the things I love to do best which was cooking and spending time with my kids and I had so many grandchildren. Oh, and my beloved husband, I remember when he would sit down at the piano in the house and the family would just stand around and sing to their hearts content. “Why, why did I have to be taken from what made me whole?” I know that you can’t live forever, but I was taken too soon to only return to this earth as an object without the sense of smell, taste and touch. I hate you Cancer. You know one thing I never got to do when was in my human form was travel and sight see God’s creation called earth. Now I am constantly traveling and who would have ever thought that when it was time for my granddaughter, Melissa to choose her frames that she would choose me. I was a pair of brown frames with medium square eyes and on my arms it said Prada. I remember when she came into Lens Crafters …show more content…
We met at an open lounge night back in 1940. I got up to sing and I was singing acapella then next thing I know I heard music and I opened my eyes to turn around and there he was. I was blown away by his talent and his looks. We were like the dynamic duo. He is tall about 5”9 and a slender build, dark skin and smart. We could go anywhere and he just fits in. That summer was the greatest summer of my life because he was a part of it. He left to go into the army and I wrote him every day for a year. Then he showed up at my church and proposed to me and why wouldn’t I say yes to the love of my life. We were married for 40 years and he was a provider. My children and I never had to want for anything. He pays the bills and bought the food, did I tell you he can cook. How many men do you know that can cook? I was truly blessed to have that man as my
Dear friends; to anyone whom it may affect, you should all know that I am dead.
A good life can be defined with continuous happiness, various accomplishments, and everlasting prosperity. The eternal desire for a good life has influenced philosophers and their reasoning throughout the years. Many have followed ancient religions; while others followed the modern belief of listening to your heart and therefore one’s self. Pascal, Luther, and Augustine are some of the philosophers who followed religion, and believed it to be the ultimate way of achieving a good life. Other preachers like Rousseau and Nietzsche believed in following one’s heart and conscious in order to achieve the desired goal. Rousseau presented the idea that humans are born good and society is what actually shapes humans into good or bad people. Furthermore, he expands on the subject of one’s self and the inward view rather than the outward view. With this, a modern and innovative perspective on the good life was developed as reason cannot only be used on an everyday basis, but can also present a more attainable way of achieving a good for all members of society.
What happens when someone dies? Death can be looked at as personal extinction, transformation to a higher state, reincarnation, or departure to the “other” side. I believe that when someones dies, they either go to heaven of hell. Without asking the Lord and Savior into your heart you will go to hell. The Bible says, “ "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish, but have eternal life” (John 3:16). I believe this because growing up I always went to church with my grandparents and that is what they have brought me up to believe
Without strong beliefs in this world, nothing would push most of us to do the thing we love. In the book “the crucible”, Reverend Hale says to Elizabeth Proctor: “No principle, however glorious, is worth dying for.” He argues that it is better to give a false confession than to die for a principle of belief. This statement is wrong for many reasons. Many people have sacrificed themselves for their beliefs, and it has changed the way man people live and think in our everyday society. This has been seen with Martin Luther King Jr and Rosa Parks, Policemen And Fire Fighters, and the founding fathers. I will explain in my next paragraph how Martin Luther king Jr and Rosa Parks movement changed our lives.
Transhumanism, specifically body echoing, renewing medicines, and cryonics, have previously only inhabited the realms of science fiction but are now making a name for themselves in reality with gradual applications in the real world. Perhaps the most marvelous of any of these would be cryonic suspension, the freezing of the body after death to heavily reduce or prevent decay. This technology could change how death is viewed in general because if you can freeze your body to be resuscitated later, death is then depleted. Scientists are still years if not decades away from developing the technology to create such things but if the technology eventually surfaces are we ready for the unexpected consequences and would the procedure be seen as contradictory to the moral compass of too
The afterlife is something that no person can directly explain. Nobody can die and come back to tell us what it is truly like. The afterlife is forever an unknown mystery with many theories about what happens to us once we die. In The Egg, Andy Weir shows us what the afterlife may be like, that it is important to gain knowledge throughout each life in order to suggest that we are all reincarnated and are evolved into gods by living through each person.
To me heaven is a place that someone goes to when they die and it is a place that would make them happy. Whenever someone dies, we start by saying at least they won’t be in pain anymore. Then we continue on to say that they are going to be happy because they will be back with their loved ones that passed before them. I feel that heaven is different for everyone, that it is not one set place and it is there to make us happy or help us cope with death.
One thing about God that we all recognize and reverence about Him is the statement that God is indeed Holy. Now, it is a known fact that humans are far this when it comes to similarities with God is Holy. We know that man is sinful, and his heart is deceitful and desperately wicked according to Jeremiah, however, God has given man some type of an ethical compass. This integrity that God has gifted to man allows each of us an inward wisdom of the difference between wrong and right. Now, because we are not Holy as our God, the conscience we are provided can be sedated or scorched by sin, nevertheless, it remains hardwired in human being. If you ever want to make an evolutionist run for their life or you’d want to make an atheist coward away in their debate, ask them to explain the moral nature in the human race. That has been one of the hardest questions for them to answer over the years. This morality also however makes God accountable to man for his actions; therefore there is no such thing as “I
I believe that when you die there are three possibilities of what will happen to you. The first one is that when you die you go to heaven. The second one is that when you die you go to hell. The third one is you will be stuck in between these two for eternity. Some people believe that the place in the middle is called purgatory and some believe they are different places.
There are many beliefs on what happens to a person at death. Once again, these beliefs come from cultural and religious upbringing. To someone who does not believe in a higher being, when a person dies the body decomposes in the ground with no regards to an afterlife. Christians believe that when a person dies, they go to Heaven or Hell. Where we go is based on our actions on earth and if we acknowledged God as our Savior, never denying Him. Another way to get to Heaven is by accepting God as your Savior in your heart on judgment day.
Death frightens us. Therefore, acknowledging one’s wish to willingly end his or her life is difficult for the average person to understand. Though we are aware that our days are finite, we live with the false hope that technology may advance by the time we reach the end of our lives to substantially extend them. We live with the delusion of an eternal existence. However, not everyone cringes upon the thought of death. Many elderly people, near death, choose to commit suicide, willingly take one’s own lives, because it is simply accelerating the inevitable. Suicide has a poor social stigma, but it is not always an attempt to “take the easy way out” as many people regard it. It can simply be the decision to end life on a high note. We can simultaneously
Salvation – Who Gets It? Three summers ago, I attended a Christian, theological debate camp with other youth from Arkansas. While the entire week was a wonderful learning experience, the actual debate and discussion in and among the various small groups I was a part of was frustrating. The debate topic was salvation, which was fascinating, yet touchy to approach because it is literally a life-and-death matter. Although each of the campers attended similar debate seminars and theology plenaries, it was clear that many of the students just did not get it.
The script above is the literal meaning of heaven in all of its entirety. A place where all the good little boys and girls go after life, living out eternity dancing across stratocumulus clouds and allowing droplets of water to tickle their toes, the scent of primrose and lilies overpowering the astounding old person smell wafting about every edge and angle. It’s a place chock full of grey haired, bleary eyed nuns, chubby, rosy cheeked tots, and everyone of those folks who share those annoying Jesus chain mails. In a literal sense, it’s a place of peace to rest after bearing the pains of mortality.
INDTRODUCTION “Sex and Religion”? Those two don’t really go hand in hand,” commented a freshman student from UF. Like this student, numerous people around the world believe this misconception to be true. Whether people argue for or against the importance of gender in religion, more than just what goes on in the bedroom has been heating up lately. Many debates have sparked due to the negative connotation associated with sex when confronted about its position in religious cultures.
a. According Davies, G. (2004), religious education in school seeks to enable pupils to develop a knowledge and understanding of religious beliefs and practices.