Sin

both born in us, we a taught as children to hide the bad and bring out the good in all of us. Certain life experiences can change your outlook on life, from what you may have learned as a kid. “Therefore, just as through one man sin entered the world, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men. Because all sinned” - Romans…

The laws and ideas in Hammurabi’s law Code and the Ten Commandments created good communities in the ancient world because they laid out the rights and wrongs dealing with actual problems, this is true for both the Hammurabi’s code and the Ten Commandments. Both of these laws were written in stone and persons from the significant eras lived by them and held them close to their morals and beliefs. The Hammurabi’s Law Code had the biggest impact on communities than the Ten Commandments and that can…

Doctor Faustus is a play by Christopher Marlowe. It was first published in 1604, eleven years after Marlowe’s death and at least ten years after the first performance of the play. Doctor Faustus is the story of a man coming to grief by his unbridled thirst for knowledge and power which leads him to his final damnation. It is a play of deep questions concerning morality, religion and man’s relationship to both. This play actually feeds the desire of the supernatural beliefs of the Elizabethan…

This message is very important to all, unbeliever and believer. For the unbeliever, life is short, death is sure, sin is the cause, and Christ is the cure. Time is running out and no man knows the hour or the day (Matt 24:36) this present age will end or the end of their life. In order for one’s eternity to be secure in the age to come, they must choose Jesus as…

Jonathan Edwards preached his belief in the concept of free will and God's righteousness. He is most recognizable for his sermon, “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” in which he uses metaphors to convince ambivalent followers to convert. The poet brings his work to life through the use of imagery, which inspires artists to interpret the concept of the sermon. This particular piece of art keys in on the main metaphors found in the sermon and clearly conveys Edwards’s message for the…

The narrator’s attitude towards the Puritans is very negative. He portrays them as unforgiving and cold-hearted people. The Puritans believe that people who have sinned must confess their sins and be punished for them. They punish anybody who has sinned and use them as an example to others. This is the case with Hester Prynne because she has committed adultery and is condemned to wear a scarlet letter on all of her clothing to show the crime she has committed. She was also forced to stand on a…

Everyman’s sins are so bad that Good Deeds cannot even fix them and tries to get him to speak to Knowledge and that is stated in the excerpt: “That shall I do verily; though that on my feet I may not go, I have a sister that shall with you also, called knowledge,…

In “Salvation,” Langston Hughes narrates his own life about when he was searching and seeking Jesus. God convicts Langston Hughes in love when he is thirteen by making him aware of his sins. During this time, Hughes said that he is saved, but in reality he was not saved. Hughes makes in explanation in the story when he attends his aunt’s church by putting on a false disguise in front of her and the entire congregation that he envisioned Jesus and receives the Holy Spirit. Hughes expresses his…

Hero versus villain, light against dark, moral contradicting immoral—these variations of the battle between good bad are commonly used in a large number of stories. Most often the hero displays model behavior while the villain’s behavior is not to be duplicated. In his book On Moral Fiction, John Gardner said that a well written story “present[s] valid models for imitation.” One short story in particular, “Young Goodman Brown” written by Nathaniel Hawthorne, is no stranger this element, but it…

Many people wonder why it is that even with a god that evil still exists. No one can truly answer this, but there is a moral lesson to be learned from having such evils in this world. H. J McCloskey states, “Surely a good, omnipotent being would have made a world that is free of evil of any kind. Either God cannot abolish evil or he will not; if he cannot, then he is not all-powerful; if he will not, he is not all good.” (H. J McCloskey) Despite the constant bad things, we continue to have faith…