Journey to the bible , Findings and queries

Journey to the bible , findings and queries  ?1 

Each of the three monotheistic religions possess its own collection of Scriptures. For the faithful-be they Jews, Christians or Muslims-these documents constitute the foundation of their belief. For them they are the material transcription of a divine Revelation; directly, as in the case of Abraham and Moses, who received the commandments from God Himself, or indirectly, as in the case of Jesus and Muhammad, the first of whom stated that he was speaking in the name of the Father, and the second of whom transmitted to men the Revelation imparted to him by Archangel Gabriel.

If we take into consideration the objective facts of religious history, we must place the Old Testament, the Gospels and the Qur’an on the same level as being

dialogue with my friend an atheist

dialogue with my friend an atheist?1

-My friend is a man who likes to argue and delights in talking. He thinks that we, naive believers as we are, feed on illusions and miss me pleasures and attractions of this world beguiling ourselves with Paradise and the Houris. He studied in France where he got a Ph.D. degree, consorted with I lippies, and came to disbelieve in everything. He adressed me sarcastically:

Journey to afterlife beginning from trial of the grave to the eternal life ?

Journey to afterlife beginning from trial of the grave to the eternal life ? First stage! Agony 1

For this reason it has been said that ‘death is crueller than the stroke of a sword, or being carved up with saws, or cut with scissors,’ since to cut the body with a sword only produces pain though its association with the spirit, and how much worse must the pain be when it impinges directly upon the spirit itself! The man who has been stabbed cries our only because there is some remainder of strength in his heart and tongue; while the voice and screams of the dying man are cut off due to the severity of his pain, as his suffering bears down upon him and mounts up in the. Heart until it reaches) h is every part, breaking his every strength and enfeebling all his limbs, leaving him with no strength left to cry for relief. 1t overwhelms his mind and deranges it, it strikes dumb his ton gue, and it enfeebles his extremities. He longs to be able to seek relief in groaning, screaming and calling for aid, bu t he cannot. Should there remain in him any strength at all, a lowing and rattling sound is audible from his throat at the time when his spirit is pulled and dragged forth .His colour changes also, to an ashen grey, until it is as though the dust which is the root of his nature has made itself manifest. Each vein is drawn out individually as the pain spreads through his surface and his innards, until his eyes roll up to the top of their sockets, and his lips arc draw n back, and his tongue contracts to its root, and his testicles rise up, and his fingertips turn a greenish­ black. So do not ask concerning a frame from which every artery is being pulled: were one of them alone w be pulled his agony would be intense, so how must it be when the percipient spirit itself is being pulled , an d not and not just from one artery, but from them all’Then, one by one, h is extremities begin to die. First his feet grow cold, and then his shins and t highs, each limb suffering agony after agony, and misery after misery, until his spirit reaches his throat. At this point he gazes out for the last ti me at the world and its people, and the gate of repentance is closed.