During the course you just completed we discussed the good and the evil, the heaven and hell. How do you see heaven and hell? Do not just give me some answer from some book; tell me what hell is and where it is. Tell me what it means and HOW is varies from life around you. Be serious about this answer and look at reality.
This is probably the hardest question for me. It would be easy to say for the sake of the test that I believe as the Mormons do or as the Christians do. However, we had that little conversation the other day and you know that I do not believe as they do. Right now, let's just say that I am floating. I don't have any strong beliefs at this time.
I do not know what, where or even if there is a Heaven and a Hell. I do know that there is a source, an entity all knowing and divine, but who, what and where this source is far beyond my knowledge. I just know that there is something greater than myself that is out there. I have to say that at times it has felt that there has been someone or something looking over my shoulder and watching out for me. Who or what it was I do not know, but I do know that it was there. .
I have a hard time believing in a cut and dry Heaven and Hell. The bible speaks of fire and brimstone; I personally just can't picture it that way. You hear people preaching of burning or rotting in hell, I feel that it just makes for a colorful sermon. I feel that if there is a God that he would far surpass something such as burning someone in hell. I think that if there really is a Hell that it would be far worse than any human mind could ever comprehend. Where it would be; I have no idea. However, if God is as forgiving, and loves each and every one of us equally as I have been taught; why would he want to see any of us in pain or suffering? Wouldn't he just forgive us, and then we all live happily ever after? .
I grew up with a different teaching of Heaven than most.
Heaven vs. Hell Debates of heaven and hell have occurred even before Christ's coming to this world. ... How can I get into heaven? ... They are the ones who may never see the joys of heaven, and only experience the agonies of hell. ... In fact, I have found that hell is talked about much more extensively than heaven. ...
Heaven and hell are two places that are the same yet different. ... In "The Scarlet Letter," heaven and hell can be seen as the city and forest. ... And the same thing goes with heaven, they follow all of God's rules so they will go to heaven when they die and not hell. ... This is so because what the city represents is heaven, and the forest represents hell. ... This shows how Hester's cabin can be seen as a link between heaven and hell. ...
There are consistent themes that remain motionless; heaven or hell, reincarnation, nirvana and the divine energy of all life. ... (Bible) Biblical interpretations have remained consistent over time from a fundamental perspective, but have changed in terms of focus that parishioners may place on the subject related to heaven or hell. ... However, both new and old testament readings reference hell in specific. An Old Testament Biblical reference to hell is Genesis 44:29 and Job 17:13. ... Like the concept of heaven these views of biblical representations have not changed over time, however th...
Others still think that heaven is right here on earth; that it is up to us to make heaven or hell of what we have. ... They don't think that hell or heaven ever existed. ... Linked to this view is the view that heaven and hell is here on earth. People of this belief claim that you make your life a livin hell or heaven. ... I strongly believe that there is a heaven and hell. ...
Suicide: Heaven or Hell? ... If we knew that we would still go to Heaven if we killed ourselves, there would probably be a lot more suicides taking place than there already are. ... In fact we do not even have the right to say that Billy Graham is going to heaven nor do we have the right to say Osama Bin Laden is going to Hell. ... You see, no matter how we leave this world, all of us are going to be judged and there is only one thing that can guarantee us a place in Heaven, Jesus Christ. ... Dying without accepting Christ is what sends people to hell. ...
Othello is indeed full to bursting with various images of nature, animals, storms and Heaven and Hell, all of which enhance our reading of the play. ... If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow til the have waken'd death, And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas, Olympus-high, and duck again as low As hell's from heaven!' ... Images of Heaven and Hell are frequently referenced throughout Othello. ... In times of trouble she herself makes appeals to heaven, such as ˜By heaven, you do me wrong' (4ii). ... There are more images associated with He...
During the time period of 1790-1800 Blake completed iconic works likeSongs of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, America: A Prophecy, Europe: A Prophecy, Visions of the Daughters of Albion, The Song of Los, and The Book of Urizen, all of which clearly demonstrated Blake's support of the Revolution. ... Blake used illuminated printing for most of his well-known works, including Songs of Innocence and Experience, The Book of Thel, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, and Jerusalem. ... Joseph Campbell was influenced by William Blake's book The Marriage of Heaven a...
Stealing Heaven, Raising Hell Peter Abelard is a man of knowledge. ... Stealing Heaven is a twisted version of the lives of Heloise and Abelard. ... There was no such anguish illustrated in Stealing Heaven after Abelard left to pursue his life as a monk. ...
Heller writes, "Colonel Cathcart was so upset by the deaths of Kid Sampson and McWatt that he raised the number of missions to sixty-five- (Heller 350). ... I'm running to them- (Heller 461). ... - (Heller 462). ... Everyone will lionize you- (Heller 437). ... I don't see heaven or saints or angels. ...