In chapter 3 of Speaking of Jesus, Carl Medearis talks about what it means to own Christianity. He says "If we don't truly know what the gospel is, we have to find an explanation for Christianity." Meaning that if we do not know what the gospel is or what it is teaching us, then we try to define it by our own standards, and that is where it gets messy. Medearis talks about how Christianity is more than a religion, but it is a relationship and people tend to not understand that. He explains why people are so defensive and put up their guards towards Christians, because Christians can be so judgemental.
He explained how no one was going to be safe from God’s wrath, and everyone was doomed from the beginning. However, they are not sent down to hell because God felt like. “They deserve to be cast into Hell; so that divine Justice never stands in the Way...”(SHAG 35). They were cast into hell because
I agree with Jonathan because being a religious person, I believe Hell is a place that is hard to comprehend, I believe that the
He states the word Hell refers to the large amount of evil within our hearts that also causes chaos when we fail to live by God’s rules. Disobedience is highly disrespectful to God we can refer to Moses in the book of Numbers who was banned from the promised land due to being disobedient. God tasked he and Aaron to gather people around, speak to a rock and pour out its water in front of them. Moses instead disobeyed a direct order from God by hitting the rock instead of speaking to it, he took credit for the miracle and he committed such a sin in front of a crowd. We must learn by example if we are to make it to our promised land (Heaven) to be with the
The Lord wants us to be in union with him, so the Incarnation had to be fully expressed to us in combination with the Passion of Christ. Jesus suffered on the cross, so that all humans would not have to suffer, as explained through the profound connection the Incarnational Union soteriology leaves for his Death/Resurrection to continue and the following states, "In Christ God sympathizes and desires passionately that we take all the crucified peoples down from the cross," (6) because for the Incarnation to be complete, God must also know sin, pain, and death, i.e. his Death and Resurrection. He died for us so that we could live
In Helena Maria Viramontes’ novel, Under the Feet of Jesus, Estrella starts off as angsty and confused, but then shifts to a state of contentment and understanding, caused by life experiences. These character traits are revealed through the selection of detail, figurative language, and tone. Initially, Estrella is immediately characterized as “very angry” when she finds Perfecto’s “foreign” toolbox. She uses a tone of confusion that illustrates her unfamiliarity with the objects in the tool box by using words such as “funny-shaped”, and using a simile comparing her confusion with the tools to the alphabet which Estrella “could not decipher”.
He thought his Daddy was full of love and loved him very much. His Daddy didn’t make him die. Jesus chose to die because he and his Daddy
It was the opposite of fire which was ice. The point to this was to better fit the contrapasso. Hell changed so that the sinners would be farth away to god since that is what they betrayed. Dante’s depiction of hell revealed the theme that the punishments fit for every
And now He walked upon the Earth once again. The devil & his demons watched as Jesus walked farther & farther away. He now had the power of hell within the keys that He held, and no one could ever stop
Thayer states that the word “hell” actually comes from the hebrew word sheol meaning “The place or state of the dead” (44) Not only is the word hell used for the
One of the things that was said in the ‘From Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God’ by Jonathan Edwards said, “The God that holds you over the pit of hell, much as one holds a spider, or some loathsome insect over the fire, abhors you, and is dreadfully provoked: his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else, but to be cast into the fire; he is of purer eyes than to bear to
Before entering Hell, Dante sees a stone sign that holds the message “Abandon all hope ye who enter here” on it as a warning for anyone entering into Hell (I, III, 31). Hell itself is a hopeless place filled with hopeless souls. Every single soul that has been damned to stay in Hell for all eternity shares a single punishment with all other damned souls: the loss of hope. From the “nearly soulless” that run in the Vestibule of Hell to Satan in the center of Hell, hope is abandoned in their sufferings (I, III, 31). However, the souls that do not reside in Hell and have not been damned still possess hope through divine salvation.
The reason behind each circle of hell in the book is because each sinner receives the punishment fitting the crime they have committed while they were on Earth. There are several things in each circle that prove the theme of divine retribution. Some examples would include the Second Circle (Lust), the Third Circle (Gluttony), the Fifth Circle (Anger), the Seventh Circle (Violence), and the Eighth Circle (Fraud). Dante attempts to punish people in hell according to the sins they committed on Earth.
Dante ensures this happens by using the concept of contrapasso, which describes the relationship between sin and the resulting justification in Hell. The literal definition of contrapasso is the 'counter-strike' or the 'counter-suffering which translates literally as "counter-penalty." And in Dante’s Hell, sinners are punished according to the nature of their sin, so that their punishment fits their crime. And as we see throughout the story, some sinners literally become the personification of their sins while others become victims in Hell of the crimes they committed while on
And He took bread, gave thanks and broke it, and gave it to them saying, 'This is my body given for you; do this in remembrance of me '" (Bible, by Luke 22:19). The third significance is the important principle given by Jesus Christ to live a Christian life. “One should never expect to be served by anyone but to serve others and I confer on you a kingdom, just as my Father conferred one on me, so that you may eat and drink at my table in my kingdom and sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel" (Bible, by Luke 22:29-30).
