This is http://www.essayz.com/a8806021.htm Previous-Essay <== This-Essay ==> Following-Essay Click HERE on this line to find essays via Your-Key-Words. {Most frequent wordstarts of each essay will be put here.} ========================================================== %INDIVIDUAL SALVATION INTEGRITY REWARD HEAVEN GOOD 880602 The concept of individual salvation and the earned right to entry into heaven as the reward for a good life are both misleading concepts, regardless of the definition of the prerequisites to individual salvation. Human salvation cannot be an individual reality. Human salvation has to do with both personal and communal integrity; with comprehensive human relationships. The essence of human salvation includes integrity in human relationships. The essence does not reside within individuals, although the integrity of persons is an essential aspect. To view individuals as saved or not saved is misleading; regardless of who the individuals are. The quest for human fulfillment will not find its fulfillment so long as the focus is exclusively upon individuals and their earned rights. The quest for the ideal society will not find its fulfillment so long as it lacks respect for the joint importance of personal and communal integrity. In heaven there is respect for both personal and communal integrity. Those who honestly seek both personal and communal integrity for all are in heaven. (c) 2005 by Paul A. Smith in (On Being Yourself, Whole and Healthy) ==========================================================