The Ten Commandments Essay

When the Puritans first arrived in Massachusetts, they were set on establishing a settlement that stuck strictly to rules from their Christian faith. However, as new conflicting ideas from other settlers were brought in, their trust in one another plummeted. In 1691-92, the Salem Witch Trials emerged from this course of events. The Crucible, by Arthur Miller, brings in a developed set of characters who exhibit this phenomenon. Reverend Parris, who has a key role in this play by going against…

Christianity as a world view affects our society. A prime example of this is how the American society Has changed over the last several decades. Back then when a Christian worldview was more prominent, things such as abortion, homosexual marriage, pornography along with others, were evaluated almost exclusively from a Christian worldview perspective. Even though not everyone in society agreed with the Christian point of view, but the majority, along with the ones who were in positions of…

make his children a sacred type of people and to give them a land of their own as long as they followed God’s commands. The key prophets who stood out in the Israelite culture were Abraham, Jacob, Isaac, and especially Moses, who was given the Ten Commandments, God’s laws that the…

Question #1 Morality is a broad and controversial subject that does not have one simple, clear-cut definition. Rather it is composed of several different ethical theories. Throughout this course so far we have talked about Cultural Relativism, Subjectivism, Divine Command Theory, Ethical Egoism, and Social Contract. Each of these theories has their own unique takes on what a person’s morals should be based off and how they are perceived. One theory that stems from morality is known as Cultural…

it. Hinduism has no set founder which may be a result of having millions of gods, and because of that, Hinduism’s structure is the simplest with no highest God, no direct revelations from God (ex: The Bible in Christianity), and no real set of commandments. Only the monotheistic religions have an actual afterlife, and even though Hinduism and Buddhism both believe in reincarnation, Hinduism has no achievement towards a set “after-life”. Even though Buddhists can eventually achieve Nirvana, it…

In Henry David Thoreau’s experiment to living alone in the woods, Walden, or Life in the Woods, the ten components of Transcendentalism are represented in his work. They are “live life to the fullest, thou shalt not conform, individualism, do not worship the material, be your own mentor, society corrupts and individual’s inherent goodness, be one with God, not the church, simplicity, moral values, and nature is sacred” (elements). These components are what the transcendentalists went by in life.…

1938, chose to direct hearings on communist influence in Hollywood. The Hollywood Ten case started in postwar America amid the primary rustlings of the cold-war. In November, HUAC subpoenaed 41 individuals required in making suspicious communist films. Amid the hearings, ten individuals declined to answer the council's famous question: "Are you now or have you ever been an individual from the Communist party?" All ten were sentenced for contempt of Congress and were sentenced to between six…

Christianity began as a sect or subgroup of Judaism during the first century Common Era before it developed into its own separate religion “That is to say, as Christians continue to delve into their own historic past in their ongoing journey to enrich their own present and future, especially liturgically, they cannot do so without addressing the historical matrix—first-century Judaism— out of which they sprang” (Jacobs, 2012, p. 518). It is considered to be a monotheistic Abrahamic religion.…

good news one must always know what the alternative is and in this case it is death. God did not intend for man to dye. God gave man a perfect world but man rebelled against God. If we take a look at the ten commandments, we quickly find out that most of us are guilty of braking some of the commandments. Man physically dies because of sin but the bible also talks about spiritual death, the second death. The death all around us is not the end and proves that God must mean what he said. The Greek…

The Bible defines what a sin is through the Ten Commandments and other commandments, yet there are still some things that the Bible is unclear about regarding sin. The Corinthians thought that they knew the right from wrong, but they were mistaken. In 1 Corinthians, Paul addresses some of the issues the hedonistic and ascetic Corinthians were struggling with. The hedonists believed that to be spiritual they shouldn’t deny themselves anything while the ascetics believed that to be spiritual they…