Remember that story from the bible about Adam and Eve and the evil snake? The basic overview of the story is when God first created the heavens and the earth, he also created the first humans, Adam and Eve. God gave them a set of rules to live by and one of the rules was to not eat the fruit of one specific tree because it was holy. Adam was laying under the tree one day and a snake slithers beside him. The snake is the devil in snake-form. To finish the story, the snake convinces Adam to eat from the tree. This then was the creation of sin, and casted Adam and Eve off to live on their own. Sin is an immoral act considered to be a transgression against divine law. Sins are the moral laws humans break, which are the laws that determine whether
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The use of the word comical here is because it is not the person who is, it is the situations the people are in that make it seem comical. Connie Barrett, a parishioner at the church where the bake sale is, talks about how good her pastries are and how everyone says they are so good. This to most people would be just simply someone talking about how good their goodies are, however the way The Onion interprets it, she is just “openly” committing the sin of Pride (Onion 257). Therefore, this shows even the most playful way of having a sense of pride in ones’ work is considered sinning nonetheless. It is amazing that something so satirical is considered a sin not just in the eyes of God but also to the fellow churchgoers. Ms. Wicks continues on about how she is amazed by how good her treats always turn out (Onion 257). Even when having doubts about her how well her goodies turn out, she is still blindly committing the deadly sin of
The use of the word comical here is because it is not the person who is, it is the situations the people are in that make it seem comical. Connie Barrett, a parishioner at the church where the bake sale is, talks about how good her pastries are and how everyone says they are so good. This to most people would be just simply someone talking about how good their goodies are, however the way The Onion interprets it, she is just “openly” committing the sin of Pride (Onion 257). Therefore, this shows even the most playful way of having a sense of pride in ones’ work is considered sinning nonetheless. It is amazing that something so satirical is considered a sin not just in the eyes of God but also to the fellow churchgoers. Ms. Wicks continues on about how she is amazed by how good her treats always turn out (Onion 257). Even when having doubts about her how well her goodies turn out, she is still blindly committing the deadly sin of