Remember the Titans

Anonymous There have been many different progressions through the era of Israelite/Judaism people concerning the after life and what happens to your after you die. Many of these ideas include nothing all the way to an immortal soul. We see an almost existentialism view from Ben Sira in his works on embracing Hellenization. We then see some ideas of individual resurrection of the dead as we see in Greek Orthodoxy still today. Then we move onto what came to be a mix from the Greeks and Jews; the idea of the immortal soul. This immortal soul is now what is the common theme among the Christian faith as well as many other theories, cults, and religions. The question is now what happens to those who were in the time period of the later ideals? Much of the time we fail to think about how the bible and other pieces of biblical historical literature deal with those who have passed in the time of one idea trying to be affiliated with the new contemporary belief. Do those who died before receive what they believe they will receive? Will they get what they deserve? Or, will they get what the common accepted belief of the time is? Is it up to us to "pray for the dead" to bring them unto eternal salvation? These questions are what drive us to pray and mourn for those dead. I know that I might be crying for myself to have lost a loved one, but I could also be crying because I hope that they have been right in faith and have been blesses with eternal life. When you "remember your titans" in your life that is what can make you feel the most human. Make you feel what it is that sets you apart from the other beasts of the planet; lead you to keep your faith in the idea of the immortal soul, and the way to immortality from that idea and faith if you so choose to believe.