An Essay About An Essay

     Along defying the extreme humidity dancing around my room, I noticed a bunch of mess from first to the second corner of the floor, not to mention the woody ceiling. It was composed of my high school and recent college garbage that I still keep for expected usage. While my mind was travelling upon the numerous pages of old books, I found some pieces of my essays in our previous technical writing class; there with the papers was my classmate’s masterpiece that I forgot to return. I borrowed it when I eventually discovered that we have exactly similar ideas regarding life after death. After reading it for the fourth time, I also saw my essay right behind it. We have little differences in the presentation of thoughts, as well as the given grades for each. Then I remembered how one of my good companions (also my classmate) reacted about having Marvin’s paper.

     “If I know, you’re just envious with what impressive evaluation he got for his essay.”

     I replied…

     “Don’t try to imitate my brain *eyes away from him*. Marvin’s work awakened me, finding that we almost have the same perceptions regarding hell… with BASIS.”

     Inside my head I silently added,

     “… Unlike yours”

     A fewer exchange of hot statements came after. No wonder, that companion I was referring to has other belief, one that is certainly far from what is ours. If my hypotheses were uneducated, he shouldn’t have approached me with that wicked mouth.

     The title I gave to my paper was Helion Ablaze while Marvin did not include a title for his piece. Before our essay’s introduction, we were instructed to draw our own Hell Illustration but my persistent classmate drew nothing and left a big space on his yellow sheet. Hope you’re beginning to become fascinated with his essay so let’s have it on track…


HELION ABLAZE – Marvin’s version















     I was asked to illustrate hell according to my personal belief and the figure above shows it. I drew nothing because I don’t believe in hell.

     My own personal reading, understanding and investigation of the Bible led me to a belief that hell (Hades in Greek and Sheol in Hebrew) is just a word used to describe the dwelling place for the dead. I do not believe that hell is a fiery place where sinners are punished eternally and I certainly do not believe in Dante’s work.

     According to the Bible, when a man dies, he returns to ashes from where he is created. He dies and that’s it. I don’t believe that he goes anywhere, neither heaven nor hell. According also to the Bible, the dead is conscious of nothing at all. I don’t believe in souls either. For me, soul is synonymous to life so when a person dies, his soul or life returns to God to whom all life came from.

     I believe that God is a forgiving God. I believe that God loves us all humans equally whether you are righteous or wicked. I don’t believe that God will let humans be punished in a dreadful place like the hell described by the catholic dogma. I believe that God gives all humans the chance to repent for all humans are sinners. My analogy states that a loving and forgiving parent will not let his child be punished in an inhumane and terrifying way, whatever mistakes the child had done.

     However, I believe in resurrection. I believe that in God’s time, those who have departed will walk again the lands of earth. Someday, the righteous men who have died years past will again live in a paradise on earth, free from any sins with all their loved ones, full of faith, hope and love.

     This is what I believe.


     Everything he had written here truly depicts the genuineness of Bible’s content.

Revelations 21: 4 – “And he will wipe out every tear from their eyes and death will be no more, neither will mourning nor outcry nor pain be anymore. The former things have passed away.”

Ecclesiastes 9: 5 – “For the living are conscious that they will die; but as for the dead, they are conscious of nothing at all, neither do they anymore have wages, because the remembrance of them has been forgotten.”

     Whether you’re religious or not, I believe that man should stay his eyes to something with foundation. I believe life is not merely a cycle of being born and being fed up to worms, not a struggle of searching so much material things for survival, not a faith by word alone … but simply satisfying the responsibility of being a creation of the Holy God – Jehovah. (Psalm 83: 18 – “That people may know that you, whose name is Jehovah, You alone are the Most High over all the earth”)