The Holy Grail Story

However, Garrison asserts that Julian views the sacraments, particularly the Eucharist, very differently from her fellow mystics. While most considered the Eucharist (partaking of the body and blood of Christ) as a means to achieve temporary union with God, Julian knows there is a gap between the human and the divine that cannot meld until the afterlife. We see this in her reaction to a vision of Christ on the cross. At first, she first compares her suffering over sin to His suffering (in the style of the traditional affective mysticism), but then she realizes that as He is both human and divine, her sufferings are different and could never come close to His. “...the oning of the godhed gave strength to the manhed for love to suffer more than alle men might” (Chapter 20).

This is a vital question and one that may have many different answers in the course of history. Some would proclaim that the Holy Ghost, also entitled the Holy Spirit, is an impersonal being, perhaps even a mystical force that is the power of God in motion. Others would say that the Holy Ghost is just another manifestation of the one God with a different name and therefore denying the trinitarian nature of God. This is contrary to the Bible which clearly shows that the Spirit is a distinct person, and even more than this He is the third person of the Godhead. That the Spirit is such is taught in passages like Acts 5 where it is said that Ananias lied to the Holy Ghost and therefore had lied, according to verse 4, “… unto God.” Not only does this reveal that the Spirit is God, but that He can be lied to shows that He is a person; you can’t lie to a mere energy or force.

Lewis’s representation of each and every one of his characters. Aslan, for example, represents Christ as he is the forerunner of all that happens within the Narnian realm. His role, relative to Christ’s captures the story of sacrifice and forgiveness as Edmund Pevensie abandons belief and rather puts his faith in human desires such as gluttony. In fact, identical to the biblical account, Aslan preparing to mend the bond shattered, gives his life in order to give Edmund his which in turn represents the penalty which Christ paid for the forgiveness of our sins. Edmund, succumbing to temptation represents that same sin which enthralled mankind from the beginning of time.

Since then, it has been “considered to be the cup from which Christ drank during the Last Supper and the one used by Joseph of Arimathea to catch his blood as he hung on the cross”(Lupack). Additionally, the Holy Grail may have been a reflection of events that were taking place in the Middle Ages. It is apparent that both the Grail quest and the Crusade have the element of courageous knights going on a great quest to bring back a sacred object and both fail in the end. The Holy Grail might have been intended to serve as a moral reminder to the people of Britain. Besides Merlin and the Grail, Boron added the Sword in the Stone, and expanded on the Round Table.

In my home, I am free to ask questions and search for answers. An example would be, the story of Jesus’ birth by the Virgin Mary. Science tells us that it is impossible to have a child without a male involved, but the scripture is telling us that it happened. I think this is one of the stories that has many interpretations and people believe different meanings, like Galileo talked about. In my religion classes, however, I was expected to believe this story was supposed to be taken literally.

He was the son of the famous Saint Monica, but despite his mother being a devout Christian his father believed in paganism. Augustine dedicated his life to Christ after reading the epistles of Paul. Original sin was a disputed topic for the Church and had many sides to it. Augustine’s argument about original sin disagreed with Pelagius’, a philosopher in the church. He argued that sin has been passed down from the start when Adam and Eve first ate from the tree of knowledge.

Judaism Picture 14986202 Judaism is the foundational faith that led to both Christianity and Islam. Actually the Torah is what is known as the Old Testament in the Christians bible. Also the Quran has references to both the old and New Testament, but some of the stories do differ in concept. In Judaism, it is believed that nothing happens to the Soul when we die, and that the Souls will be resurrected when God decides it’s time. Death in this religion does mean separation of soul and body, and the soul goes to the Spirit world.

Because of this, Lewis like to call his representations in children’s books “supposals” instead of using the terms symbol or allegory (Downing, 126). Many modern texts use allusions to the Bible ironically, but not to show the continuities between contemporary events and traditions based in religion (Foster, 52). In order to create a work not fueled by allegory, especially The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, Lewis modeled his Christ-like figure after what Jesus would be like if Narnia had truly existed and that was where he chose to come back to (qtd. in Root, Jerry, and Martindale,

Another example of intertextuality is the relationship between the novel The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe and the Bible. Throughout the novel, C. S. Lewis alludes to various figures of the Bible. For example, Aslan’s sacrifice is meant to represent Jesus’s sacrifice, while Edmund’s move to the Witch’s side parallels Judas’s betrayal of Jesus to the Romans. After realizing this important symbolism, this fiction novels transforms into a completely new level of significance illustrating one of the most important works in

While literal hypotheses such as the Supplement Hypothesis and the Documentary Hypothesis (which are discussed and delineated by Whybray) try to account for the inerrancy of humankind as the ammunation toward dismantling the Pentateuch as a complete narrative authored by Moses, I simply look to scripture to why these theories should not influence the weightof the Bible as inspired literature from God to Moses. 2 Peter 1:21 (which Archer also points out), which states “For prophecy never had its origin in the human will, but prophets, though human, spoke from God as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit,” is one reason alone why I hold to the traditional view. One can also point to scripture within Pentateuch, throughout the rest of the Old Testament and allusions iterated in the New Testament to validate Moses as the author: Exodus 34:27 and Joshua 1:8, 8:32 to name a few. Nevertheless, there are numerous albeit yet-to-be substantiated reasons why the traditional view does not hold up. For one, how can Moses be the author when he dies in the book, so how would have he written the whole thing?

The author tell if removing the historical section of the Bible we would still have a good portion left to support that it is the word of God, which the author sees clearly that they enter twain with each to prove history. Here is Oswalt concluding observation to the second question- does it matter in the end whether these accounts are historical or not? “The answer to the question is “no.” The conclusion with the scripture of Apostle Paul in I Corinthians 15:13-17, speaks very clearly about if Jesus Christ be not raised from the dead then believing of the gospel is in vain. That God did raise Christ from the dead and we whom have accepted Christ as our Lord and Savior are still in sin, if there be no resurrection. Oswalt left the readers

I am also curious to know if God can save Godself, because reflecting on the words of Jesus on the cross, would it wrong to say that God the Father had left God the Son to die on the cross? With this claim, God could save Jesus because they were separate, distinct and different as they are the persons of the

Some people suppose Gnosticism and Christianity eventually merged because the Gnostic texts are scriptures that were left out of The Bible. Gnostics believed they had the divine knowledge because they knew what Christians did not. Many Christians believed these texts were untrue, and forged by Gnostics. (Robinson) ) Although these two religions share stories, they are two entirely different religions. Gnosticism is closer to a polytheistic religion with all of its different Aeons; Christianity is monotheistic.

So examining further the foundations elemental secular government becomes not just a matter of gently logical opinion but one of extreme political and practical desperation (Harris). "Theistic Evolutionists" believe that God conducted evolution over millions of years but only seven percent out of the thirty-nine percent thought themselves as "Darwinists", who believe that God played no role in either creation or evolution. These two groups further prove that contradicting ideas and theories can live amongst one another in peace (“American Decades”). In conclusion, secular and sacred groups have proved to have conflicts in the past and present but they also have proven that they can coexist