Left Behind chapter 3&4

Chapter three and five are when the author really get into the whole plot of being left behind. The author starts off with Rayford Steele the main character trying to get home after getting into the terminal at the airport. Rayford is torn apart when he figures out half way throughout the chapter that his wife and kids are gone. He figures this out by hitching a ride with a helicopter ride going to the nearby suburbs, and then he gets home and their clothes are laying all on the floor in a messy pile. With shoes and everything. To their socks, underwear, and even contacts.

Chapter four is mainly staying on the topic about Buck getting home. Buck is sitting in the airport with a cold towel on the back of his neck, and a doctor comes up and pours this liquid on his neck to clean and disinfect it. This part of the chapter is important because the doctor tells him how to get to work. Buck’s work keeps on emailing him to get to work to figure out what has happened, and so they can print something on the up-coming newspaper. By the end of the chapter Buck gets a ride with a personal jet pilot and he has very steeped prices. For this crazy expense he has to use all of his travel vouchers that are very valuable and can be traded in for any currency you want. At the very end of the chapter the author goes back and forth between what is happening to Rayford and Buck, and them finally figuring out how wide-spread and what tragedy this while thing is to the world.

These whole two chapters are very connected. one just flows right into the next one. Both ideas of the two main characters getting home, or work, and trying to put their lives back together. I have liked this book a lot more than the Jesus>Religion book because this has more action. The other book is more of a physiological book and does not have much action. It just states that this right here means this right here because of this. Jesus>Religion uses a lot of references to the bible and priests in it. Left Behind takes the other side of if you were not a believer and following Jesus and God.

Left Behind Chapter 1&2

Chapter 1 and 2 kind of blend into each other. The first chapter is introducing the first main character Rayford Steele.  It talks about he is married and he is a pilot for a major airline company. He is lusting over the senior flight attendant, Hattie Durham, even though he is married. Rayford wishes he could hook up with her after they land, but then the worst happens. The plot of the whole book happens. People are left behind. He gets up because he talks with himself and persuades himself to go and talk to Hattie. He gets out of the cockpit and Hattie Durham pushes him against the wall. At this point he thinks he is getting lucky with Hattie, but he is not. She is just freaked out with a lot of the passengers just disappearing out of thin air.

The second chapter just goes right into the solution of their problems. There is this third important character in this chapter named Buck. He is a foreign sales man for a big company back in the states. So he is going to some foreign country on this flight to sell them some products. He is not that smart with electronics but some how he connects up the satellite phone with his phone so he can make calls to his family if they were left behind. This causes Hattie and him to get into it about vandalizing property on the plane, But then she backs off when she figures out the reason why is doing this. The very end of this chapter takes you into the process of them turning around in the mid-Atlantic area and going back to Chicago airport, because all the other airports on the east side of the U.S. are closed. Rayford gets to take helicopter ride to the nearest hospital to his house. With this he gets Hattie on the ride even though the ride is only for pilots.

The first two chapters I can relate to because my step was a pilot, and my mom and I always were fearing he would just leave us. The pilot seems a lot like him. The first two chapter blended very well together. If it was me I would have mad it one chapter. It just makes more sense in my mind. The author used a lot of vocabulary that is regularly used and I like that variety even though i do not know what the word means sometimes.

Jesus&Religion Chapter 8

Chapter is talking about how we aren’t just here to get to heaven, we are here to follow Jesus and with that we get to heaven. We should not just be living to make it to heaven so we aren’t in hell. We should be living to live for Jesus and God the father. Another thing that this chapter talks about is how we are not God’s employees we are has investments.

This chapter basically has no connection to the bible and the real world. It is the author mainly talking how this affected his own life.

Jesus&Religion Chapter 7

Chapter 7 talks a lot about how we say that we believe in God ,but we say ‘why are you not there when i need you God’. I am not trying to be all religious, but we all should rust and love God for what he has done not for what we want him to do. Just like the book says “Sometimes suffering is actually God’s blessing rather than God’s curse.” Another thing that the book talks about is how God is connected to us. The book says God makes it very clear that when one of his people suffers, he suffers. When one of is people aches, he aches. hen one of his his people hurts, he hurts.” this alone shows us that God is connected ti us in more ways than we know. We know that he is connected o us through prayer, but he is connected through our pain, joy, prayer, praise, thoughts, and actions etc…

Again this book is the best chapter so far, because it connects to world and script a lot in the text. I am not saying it is he best ever, but it has some flaws. Some examples are like it starts on a topic it stops with out fully ending it or just completely stopping the topic and moving on.

Jesus&Religion Chapter 6

Chapter 6 is about four main points: how we twist the bible, desire gifts over the giver, why we were created for him, and why we need to have joy despite circumstances. The first main point is talking about we twist little stories like how we twist verses or versions of the bible to make them sound better for our man-kind. We are always trying to make it to heaven no matter what. No matter what the person in this i this world. The second main point is that we desire the gift more than the giver. We praise christmas gifts more then the true reason for Christmas. Or easter, we look forward to the Easter dinner ,or for kids getting candy from plastic eggs. We do not treat God the way that God treats us. The next point is why we were created for him. Just like the book says; My job can be taken. My health can be taken. My ability to type and write can be taken. But my identity as a child of God can never be taken. This statement i have actually been reading this eery morning and trying to live by it. People today say that they read their bible or read religious texts, but it take s a lot of perseverance to do so.

This chapter is very informational to me and the world, but it needs more connection to the real world.

Jesus>Religion Chapter 5

          Chapter 5 is mainly triggered for people of my generation. It talks about what people’s thought process about Christianity and people’s min-set about christians. Some examples in this chapter about mind-set is “we humans concentrate so much on the outside, but how God cares more about what’s going on in the inside.” This mind-set is put into kids heads from the very start. Parents try not to put this mind-set their kids heads from the start but it happens no meter what.

          This chapter also talks about how men think about woman. This is a big problem for this day and age for men. There is problems with clubs and porn and just the mentality of men. This chapter said “But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.”

          This chapter has been the best chapter, because it has triggered my generation and triggered myself in general. It could have more connections to the real world, but it is an alright chapter in my head and eyes.

Jesus>Religion Chapter 4

This chapter focuses on the big picture of why we should trust in Jesus Christ. Jesus died for our sins and now we should praise him and then we should be open to him and let him in to our lives through being saved and then baptitised. There isn’t a lot to go off of here in this chapter though, but you can get some stuff out of it. Like, hoe religion triggers people. Religion is all about getting people saved to make themselves happy to make God love them more. Yes that is good but they are doing it for the wrong reason. They should be doing to make God happy not themselves. The author puts in here some good reasons why we should believe in him. Avoiding sin isn’t about us not getting in trouble, it is about us trusting that the creator knows his creation best and has designed the world to work in a certain way.

This chapter is very well put together because of it relates to the subject of why I hate Religion but love Jesus.

Jesus>Religion Chapter 3

This chapter is for those so-called Christians. I know these so-called Christians are out there, but you don’t have to follow them. This chapter is mainly how some people just put a church mask or put on there church clothes, then when they get home they take that off and go back to there normal way of life. Everyone does this a couple times, and then there are people that do this every second of everyday and when they go to bed at night they think about how bad they actually are and the don’t fix it. In this chapter the author says that when we do this we need to try to forget our past because sometimes we do this because someone said to them that they were a true Christian and they knew it was true. So they kept on growing on that and trying to show them who is boss.

Another thing that this chapter goes over is how people focus on there outside and not on there inside. Going back to the whole mask thing. Take off that mask and show the world who you are and if they don’t like it and change and if they like and you don’t like it then make sure to change that.

This chapter could be a little more descriptive and focused on the main point. The author does connect to his life, but most of the chapter is about that and sometimes his story doesn’t even connect to the main point of the chapter.