eye opens. Her hair has gone in patches of burned scalp, covered now by hard, mottled scabs. 189.
4.2 The Biblical Values Conveyed Through the Five People Eddie Meets in Heaven
There are five biblical values that will be discussed in this part. Each value is
taught by each person that Eddie meets in heaven.
4.2.1 Fairness
Fairness was written by Salomon for over million years ago. Salomon with his wisdom given by God has written that,
Everything on earth has its own time and its own season. There is a time for birth and death, planting and reaping, for killing and healing, destroying and
building, for crying and laughing, weaping and dancing, for throwing stones and gathering stones, embracing and parting. There is a time for finding and
loosing, keeping and giving, for tearing and sewing, listening and speaking. There is also a time for love and hate, for war and peace. Ecclesiastes 3: 1-8
God has put everything within His big plans. None can understand when or where life
begins. Everything has its own time, and human never knows when the time comes. Life is fair because our God is fair. This is also similar to what the first lesson that
Eddie receives. The first lesson comes from the Blueman that teaches Eddie that there are no
random acts. Life goes in its path, and no one can no more separate from another. “You say you should have died instead of me. But during my time on earth,
people died instead of me, too. It happens every day. When lighting strikes, a minute after you are gone, or an airplane crashes that might have been on.
When your colleague falls ill and you do not. We think such things are random. But there is a balance to it all. One withers, another grows. Birth and
death are a part of a whole.” 48-49 PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
This lesson is more about fairness in life. According to the Bible everything in this world has its turn. Life is fair, sometimes fortune is in our side and sometimes it
leaves us behind Ecclessiastes 3:1. Life goes on its path. Every event that happens does not just happen with no purpose. It happens in ourlives because God wants it to
happen. So every event that we experience in life does not happen accidentally, but it has been planned, and it is fair to every person on earth.
What is the connection of Eddie’s life and the Blueman’s death? Take a little flash back. Someday in July, in the late 1920s, a little boy and his friends are tossing a
baseball. The ball flies over his head so he chases it and runs in front of an automobile. The car screeches, veers, and just misses him. The little boy is fine, but the person who
is driving the car does not have the good luck as this little boy has. He is so shock because almost hitting a little boy and dies because of the heart attack. The little boy is
Eddie, and the person who dies because of a heart attack is the Blueman 42-44. Eddie shook his head. “We were throwing a ball. It was my stupidity, running
out there like that. Why should you have to die on account of me? It ain’t fair.” The Blueman held out his hand, “Fairness,” he said, “does not govern life and
death. If it did, no good person would ever die young.” 48
The fruit of Eddie’s carelessness in the death of the Blueman. But, that is life. Every action that we do whether it is accidentally or not always brings the consequences. If
we do good things then we will get the good things as well. As what the Bible says that each of us will harvest what we plant. If we follow our selfish desires then we will
harvest destructions, but good things will bring an eternal life Galatians 6: 7-8 There are no random act in life. Eddie thinks that it is unfair for Blueman to die
because of his stupidity. But God has already prepared it. Someone dies, another lives. Someone cries, another laughs, it has its own time, here on earth Ecclesiastes 3:2 and
4. PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
“I still don’t understand,” Eddie whispered. “What good came from your death?”
“You lived,” the Blueman answered. “But we barely knew each other. I might as well have been a stranger.”
The Blueman put his arms on Eddie’s shoulders. Eddie felt that warm melting sensation.
“Strangers,” the Blueman said, “are just family you have yet to come to know.” 49
Someone has to die so other may live. Blueman has to die so Eddie may life. One withers, another grows. Birth and death are part of a whole 49.
4.2.2 Sacrificing
