day if they 've not committed acts of lying,stealing,adultery, intentional sabotage, or any of the other "major" sins. So why do we have a set of sins we try our best to avoid committing? To claim pride, which ironically is the worst of the seven deadly sins to act upon. Tanner works as an assistant chef at a very high end restaurant. He takes his job very seriously and performs it wholeheartedly. Mackenzie has recently been hired as a new cook in the kitchen. Tanner wants to help Mackenzie…
In his book, “Heart of the Artist,” Noland addresses topics that concern character building for ministry. It is very a practical guide to every-day living as a Christ follower. These can be things every Christian has heard before, but there is depth and importance to what the Lord speaks within Noland’s writing. A few of the main points he touches that I will reflect on are, servant-hood v. stardom, the artist in community, and the artist and sin. Servant-hood v. Stardom A lot of times within…
pride. Sinful pride is altogether different and is the godless, rebellious assertion of self over others (Proverbs 30:13). Pride was the fall of man in Genesis, and pride is listed at the top of the seven most deadly sins in Catholic theology. Further down the list of the seven deadly sins is greed. Pride facilitates greed. Technology, coupled with human carelessness and pride leads to environmental breakdown, and when the use of natural resources is coupled with greed, exploitation is the…
that combines spiritual deadly sins and religious practices.…
Wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony, these are the seven deadly sins. Each one is said to send a person to Hell, where the one who committed that sin lives out their eternal punishments. At the time, pardons were bought to lessen a person’s eternal punishment in Hell by a few years. Even though the Pardoner in “The Pardoner 's Tale,” an excerpt from The Canterbury Tales, preached against these horrible sins, he does not follow his own advice and is guilty of every one of the…
Dante’s profound Imagination The Divine Comedy, one of the most famous work by Dante Alighieri described the poet, Dante himself walk through the inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso. Since the artwork was done seven hundred of years ago, does did Dante accurately organize the circles? In other words, are the sins really worse as he heads to the center of Hell? Is greed really worse than glutton or lust? Is fraud really worse than heresy? Combining personal feelings from Dante himself and…
What is the first thing that comes to mind when you think of Hell? What images do you imagine? You may think of a satanic devil with his little “helpers” burning through the pits of hell. You may further fill in the picture with other beastly devils that roam around torturing damned sinners who will never see light of day, or those who turn cry out with pain, regret, and suffering. In Dante’s epic poem known as the Divine Comedy, he creates a unreal version of himself as he travels through…
If you are a mystery fan, you might wish to tackle Chesterton’s Father Brown series. This is a series of a priest who is able to solve crimes because he takes original sin seriously and knows the heart of a sinner. They are not overtly religious but they are very mixed in quality. These short stories were collected in five books of which the first, The Innocence of Father Brown, is the best. Try these and if you like them, you can move on the others. And if you are going to read…
The meaning of the mysterious Black Veil from Hawthorne’s short story has been long disputed, but what does it actually mean? Hawthorne was a writer that lived and wrote during the romantic period., Hawthorne dealt with sin and how it affects us negatively. One of his more famous short stories Minister of the Black Veil also deals with sin. Hawthorne’s short story proves that the veil is a device that the minister uses to dramatize that everyone has a secret sin and, therefore should not judge…
The Effect of Sin Sin is a very alluring thing usually having to deal with a human’s desires, but what does this sin lead to in the long run? Dante's focus on sin in The Divine Comedy is portrayed by man's desire and how it affects their punishment. This sin leads to most of the books turmoil and his experiences throughout. The Divine Comedy is a book revolving around sin and its effects on man. The pure essence of it is the driving point of Dante’s Inferno, a section of the book that is…