Essay On Salvation
Have you ever felt the need to be rescued, but it is easier said than done, and sometimes you do not even know how you can be rescued, and where to even begin the process of being rescued .Being saved is the ultimate goal that people have, whether it be for reaching a heaven after death, or resolving or getting out of a problem. Salvation comes in many forms, and can all have different outcomes. In Margaret Mead “New Superstitions for Old” and Langston Hughes “Salvation”, they each talk about and give different examples of being saved, and why we want and need the feeling of salvation. They help compare the difference between reaching salvation through different ways. Believing in a higher power can lead someone to salvation, but you can also
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Hughes was miss guided by his aunt, and the church elders, and did not fully understand that God was not really in person going to come down and really show Hughes that he is real, but everyone described it to him like “ …when you were saved you saw a light and something happened to you inside! and Jesus came into your life! And God was with from then on!” (Hughes 111) But Hughes was the last one to get off the bench, and from everyone yelling at him to accept and follow Jesus, and Hughes actually did not see God, he was instantly disappointed, and gave into the pressure to go up and be saved, but in reality he got because of the pressure that the church put on him, and the embarrassment it was that he was not getting up to be saved and everyone is encouraging him to get and go be saved. It ended up making him feel resentment towards Jesus and he said “….and I hadn’t seen Jesus, and that now I didn’t believe there was a Jesus any more, since he didn’t come to help me.” (Hughes 112) But in a way Hughes reached salvation by saving himself from the humiliation that was brought to him while sitting on the church being yelled by the elders of the church to get up and be saved by Jesus and to join them in heaven when they pass. So you can reach salvation without believing a higher power, or having help by a higher
Hughes was miss guided by his aunt, and the church elders, and did not fully understand that God was not really in person going to come down and really show Hughes that he is real, but everyone described it to him like “ …when you were saved you saw a light and something happened to you inside! and Jesus came into your life! And God was with from then on!” (Hughes 111) But Hughes was the last one to get off the bench, and from everyone yelling at him to accept and follow Jesus, and Hughes actually did not see God, he was instantly disappointed, and gave into the pressure to go up and be saved, but in reality he got because of the pressure that the church put on him, and the embarrassment it was that he was not getting up to be saved and everyone is encouraging him to get and go be saved. It ended up making him feel resentment towards Jesus and he said “….and I hadn’t seen Jesus, and that now I didn’t believe there was a Jesus any more, since he didn’t come to help me.” (Hughes 112) But in a way Hughes reached salvation by saving himself from the humiliation that was brought to him while sitting on the church being yelled by the elders of the church to get up and be saved by Jesus and to join them in heaven when they pass. So you can reach salvation without believing a higher power, or having help by a higher