Essay True Reality - Theme of the Screwtape Letters

“…Our cause is never more in danger than when a human, no longer desiring but still intending to do our enemies will, looks ‘round a universe from which every trace of him seems to have vanished, and ask why he has been forsaken and still obeys” (Lewis, 39).

Heaven and Hell are ambiguous topics discussed and debated throughout all of human existence. Particularly, if there is a heaven or hell, and if so, what do they entail? Where are they? What do they look like? The 1990 film, Flatliners, explores one possible option for what happens to human essence after death. The film explores where this essence, whatever it may be, may go. It also explores what this place will look like for each of the different characters, as well as hints at the idea that deeds on earth may affect a person’s place, status, or experiences in the afterlife. Some of the ideas in the film related to some of the ideas brought about in the Bible, as well as some of the ideas and beliefs of the Essences that are discussed in the book Heaven: a history by Colleen McDannell and Bernhard Lang. The hint of redemption from sins in the movie is related to the Bible, but the individual experiences were similar to the beliefs of the Essenes for an individualized hope in the afterlife. Both the Bible and the Essenes expressed a setting for the afterlife that is portrayed in the film.

The epigraph in The Fault in Our Stars by John Green explains the theme of time, time goes by fast so do not waste it, and the situation the main character is in. The main characters, Hazel and Augustus, both have cancer, and they know they do not have too much time left for both of them. They constantly talk about infinities and how everyone's infinities are different. Augustus tells Hazel that he is afraid of oblivion, but she responds by saying, "There will come a time...when all of us are dead.... There is time before organisms experienced consciousness, and there will be a time after. And if the inevitability of human oblivion worries you, I encourage you to ignore it..." (Green 12-13). Hazel wants to live life to the fullest without worry

When God created the universe, he then created humans in His own image. In the beginning everything was perfect. Humans did not know about evil at all until their eyes were opened when they ate the fruit from the tree of life, known as the apple. Once that happened, sin was birthed into us causing us to not only die spiritually, but later experiencing death physically. After us humans die, we either go to heaven or we go to hell for all eternity. Our destiny determines by how we choose to live and what we choose to believe. Our actions should match our beliefs. If we do not believe in God almighty and have faith in his Son, Jesus, then we will go to hell for all eternity.

This line in the book describes the final characteristic of mans’ attitude - fear. The Time Machine is saying that mankind, even when

In relation to time, Mulisch demonstrates that wars and hidden emotions of the past prevail into a future that is not clear: “To dynamic personalities, the present is a ship that drives its bow through the rough seas of the future. To more passive ones it is rather like a raft drifting along with the tide” (151). No matter of whether the past takes a toll at a passive or active personage, no matter of whether you are controlling the boat in the “rough seas” or just passively admiring the “tide” and allowing it to control your path, the mirage of perfection in the future is not attainable without a resolution of the

"Time" (313) as an authority figure who has strict control of his life, and with descriptions of biblical figures we can presume that he is a religious person who believes that God is in control of his destiny. Each of these images contributes to a picture of one man's outlook on life and death.

Finally, in his later years, he comes to understand that Heaven brings the process to an

As a dimension widely considered inextricable from human existence as a whole, concepts of time and temporal existence often intersect with those of sacredness and spirituality. Indeed, many religions equate “time” to mortality, with the “temporal” representing the irreligious and worldly confines that precede eternity, Heaven, or Enlightenment. Contrarily, within the introductory chapter of his text The Sabbath, entitled “A Palace in Time,” author and Jewish mystic Abraham Joshua Heschel eloquently proposes the glorification of “time” as an inherently divine element.

- In Borges story, “The Book of Sand,” he informs us that time itself is frivolous and that people are not permanent on this Earth. As well as, the fact that at the end of it all, our existence is greatly insignificant when inferring to the time left on this Earth.

One of the biggest questions of mankind hovers over many people, and yet, some individuals chose to ignore the fact that the question even exists. Whether a person goes to church every Sunday, or doesn’t attend church at all, the person is still responsible for knowing whether or not they will go to heaven or hell. Many misconceptions are flowing around the minds of people across the world about what gets you into heaven. The drama Heaven’s Gates and Hell’s Flames is based on an evangelical interpretation of the Gospel, and presents the message that one must believe in Jesus in order to be saved and go to Heaven, or face eternal punishment in Hell. The production of Heaven’s Gates and Hell’s Flames displays the consequences of our

Even the utmost base souls will finally navigate their way out of even the abysmal pit of hell, just as even the supreme and purest souls will finally lose their foothold in heaven and fall again into the series of death and reincarnation. Liberation is the only way to end this cycle (Evan-Wentz, Dawa-Samdup).

I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire; it's rather excrutiating-ly apt that you will use it to gain the reducto absurdum of all human experience which can fit your individual needs no better than it fitted his or his father's.  I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.  Because no battle is ever won he said.  They are not even fought.  The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

In writing about heaven, the Puritan pastor, Richard Baxter, asked his readers, “Why are not our hearts continually there? Why dwell we not there in constant contemplation? . . . Bend thy soul to study eternity; busy it about the life to come; habituate thyself to such contemplations, and let not these thoughts be seldom or cursory, but settle upon them; bathe thy soul in heavenly delights.” Therefore, as God’s children we have to learn to do them here – Psa.27:4.

And just like us, we have a goal—to achieve perfect happiness in heaven—we have what is needed in us to be able to reach that goal—hope and determination—but we lack one thing—the way to go up there. There are many ways presented to us, and these many ways are confusing, we don't know what road to take, we don't know what to do. Well, if only we would realize that we shouldn't. Because one way is given to us, and many of us are ignorant to that way: the way given to us by Jesus through His cross. In order to attain heaven, we need to follow what our Lord Himself gave us. He said, "I am the Way, the Truth and the Life" and those who follows Him need not be afraid, for He is the Good Shepherd, and a Good Shepherd loves His flock and would never lead them into trouble.